Memo to CBS: Phoenix exists. So does Denver. And Salt Lake City and Albuquerque. Those metropolitan areas alone comprise almost 9 million potential viewers. And that doesn’t include folks in the vast rural areas around and in between those cities.Read more…
‘H50’ Plans Audience Gimmick
Hawaii Five-0 plans to let viewers decide the ending of its Jan. 14 episode. Here is the news release from CBS.com: FOR THE FIRST TIME, A PRIMETIME DRAMA ALLOWS VIEWERS TO CHOOSE THE ENDING OF AN EPISODE IN REAL TIMERead more…
Kid Steals Show on ‘Hawaii Five-0’
Hawaii Five-0 came back strong this week with a solid episode featuring the regular cast and a couple of good guest performances. Diehard H50 fans online, and pretty much anybody who watched CBS this week, saw the promos with StarRead more…
Tom Arnold: Unconvincing Bad Guy
I’m not going to spend a lot of time on this week’s Hawaii Five-0 (Season 3, Episode 10) because it doesn’t merit that much attention. The setup is that Danno is chaperoning a camping trip for Grace (Teilor Grubbs) andRead more…
‘H50’ Uses Beauty for Good, Evil
Before I get started on this week’s Hawaii Five-0 Guest-a-palooza, I want focus on last week’s episode. Of the two wildly different hours, Episode 8 had greater implications for the series’ future than Episode 9, which was a self-contained doseRead more…
‘Hawaii Five-0’ Treading Water in Season 3
Seven episodes into Season 3, it’s fair to ask whether CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 has lost its way. Since the action-packed season premiere, most of the episodes have been self-contained, with plots that have ranged from procedural to cartoonish. Meanwhile: The showRead more…
If Sandy Rained Out ‘H50,’ You Didn’t Miss Much
Who’d have figured a hurricane on the Eastern Seaboard would prevent people in Arizona from watching a TV show set in Hawaii? But that’s what happened last week, when CBS pre-empted Hawaii Five-0 for its news coverage of Hurricane Sandy.Read more…
Halloween Is Early; McGarrett Mom Doesn’t Scare Easily
Hawaii Five-0 viewers never know what kind of show they’re going to see in a given week. Last week’s episode didn’t bring much plot development – long- or short-term. It mostly offered bickering between McGarrett and Danno, which I’ll charitablyRead more…
‘H50’ Episode Lost Amid Bluster
I know I’m late with this Hawaii Five-0 recap. In a busy week that included my birthday, the Scottsdale International Film Festival and a couple of sports events, I didn’t even get to view Season 3, Episode 3 until thisRead more…
Art Heist Paces Paint-by-Numbers ‘H50’
Could there be a more unlikely recurring guest on Hawaii Five-0 than Ed Asner? Amid the sun, surf and action of Oahu, the octogenarian TV legend sits on a park bench – looking and sounding a bit like one of theRead more…