By Stu Robinson, He’s BA-ack! We could be talking about Steve McGarrett, as actor Alex O’Loughlin returned to CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 this week after missing two episodes to undergo rehab from prescription painkillers. Or we could mean Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos), the mysterious villain who takes any episode up a notch. Season 2, Episode 22 begins with a double whammy and doesn’t let up from there. It starts with McGarrett leading...
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By Stu Robinson, CBS presented its much-hyped “crossover” episodes of Hawaii Five-0 and NCIS: Los Angeles this week. Meh. The biggest accomplishment of the exercise was to paper over the continued absence of Five-0 leader Steve McGarrett while actor Alex O’Loughlin underwent drug treatment. Filling the gap was the marvelous rapper-turned-actor LL Cool J (Ladies Love Cool James) who, as NCIS agent Sam Hanna, brings the...
By Stu Robinson, It took me a few days to recover from whiplash following the season premiere of CBS’ Hawaii Five-0. No, not really. It just seemed like it. I went into the Season 2 premiere wondering how the H50 writers could resolve last season’s cliff-hanger in a remotely plausible fashion. While I keep the emphasis on “remotely,” they did come up with a narrative to get the band back together for a second season — even...
By Stu Robinson, A few weeks ago, I posted a recap of Hawaii Five-0‘s season finale. Now that I’ve had a few weeks to reflect on it, here are my big-picture thoughts on the show’s plot and character developments. The team faces an existential crisis following the season finale. McGarrett and Kono are under arrest; Chin Ho appears to be their jailer; and Danno seems powerless to do anything about it. It’s hard to imagine...
By Stu Robinson, I’ve had some time to digest the Season One finale of Hawaii Five-0, the new CBS hit that pretty much lived up to its preseason hype. Summing up the 24 episodes requires more than one blog post, so here is Part 1: A Recap of the Season Finale: Episode 24 starts with a bang as a car bomb kills one of the show’s secondary characters before the boffo opening theme song. And she wouldn’t be the only one to...
