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…
Past & Future Collide in ‘H50’ Season Premiere
Hawaii Five-0 started its third season with a splash – a number of them, actually. In one of last season’s cliffhangers, crooked ex-cop Frank Delano (William Baldwin) gave Five-0’s Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim) a Sophie’s choice: rescue eitherRead more…
‘H50’ Finale Hangs from Every Cliff on Oahu
By Stu Robinson, Like last year’s season finale, this year’s season-ending episode of CBS’ Hawaii Five-0 began with the death of a secondary character. But the resemblance ended there. Whereas the Season 1 finale put the unit in peril inRead more…
‘H50’/’NCIS: LA’ Crossover Masks McGarrett Absence
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 AlexRead more…
Caan Tiki: Dad, Son Meet in Hawaii
By Stu Robinson, Season 2, Episode 18 of CBS’s Hawaii Five-0 took its obsession with fatherhood to a whole new level. In a long-anticipated bit of stunt casting, the show’s producers reeled in James Caan (Brian’s Song, The Godfather, NBC’sRead more…