Scott Glenn sports a truly horrific bowl cut in his first leading role, starring alongside Toshiro Mifune in the Frankenheimer-helmed The Challenge. Featuring a score by Jerry Goldsmith and a supporting cast that includes Sab Shimono and Clyde Kusatsu, the film is a pretty solid action entry though it wasn’t the film Glenn and Mifune…
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Northern Exposure (1991) – Animals R Us, and Jules et Joel
Ed (Darren E. Burrows) struggles with his cinematic dreams, questioning whether he can actually make a film or not in Animals R Us. Written by Robin Green this episode first debuted on 14 October, 1991. There are a couple of narrative threads woven into this story, but the main one centers on Maggie (Janine Turner)…
Northern Exposure (1991) Slow Dance, and The Bumpy Road to Love
Slow Dance closes out the truncated second season of Northern Exposure, and also clears the path for Joel (Rob Morrow) to possibly pursue Maggie (Janine Turner) – but what about her reputation as a black widow? All of her boyfriends have died – and Rick (Grant Goodeve) is no exception… he’s killed by a falling…
Northern Exposure (1990) – Russian Flu, and Sex, Lies and Ed’s Tapes
Joel (Rob Morrow) is super-excited that his fiancée, Elaine (Jessica Lundy) is coming up to Cicely for a visit. Unfortunately, the pilot he hired, not Maggie (Janine Turner) has come down with a virus and it seems to be spreading around the town quickly. Russian Flu was written by David Assael and debuted on 9…
Magnum P.I. (2024) – Ashes to Ashes, and The Big Squeeze
This is it, the last two episodes of Magnum P.I. They aired back to back on 3 January, 2024, First up, Ashes to Ashes. It was written by Tera Tolentino, Andrew Blazensky and Barbie Kligman. T.C. (Stephen Hill) and Mahina (Emily Alabi) come to Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) for help on an…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Consciousness of Guilt, and Extracurricular Activities
Katsumoto (Tim Kang) turns to Magnum (Jay Hernandez) for help when a case he’s involved with falls apart during the trial, and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) wonders if she and Magnum spend too much time together and should see what it’s like when they spend a day apart. Consciousness of Guilt was written by Andre Jackson…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – The Retrieval, and Run with the Devil
Jin (Bobby Lee) is back in The Retrieval. Written by Gene Hong and Katie Varney, this episode first debuted on 1 November, 2023. Jin comes to T.C. (Stephen Hill) for some help when Jin’s ex-partner Bo (Kirk Fox) is released from prison, and wants his cut from a previous heist to pay for his protection…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Appetite for Danger, and Night Has a Thousand Eyes
While Kumu (Amy Hill) documents a dark part of Hawaiian history, doing interviews with Cade (Martin Martinez) as her cameraman, with survivors of the Japanese internment camps in Hawaii following the attack on Pearl Harbor. Sab Shimono, the wonderful actor, plays George, and tells his story, something Shimono went through himself. It’s a great story…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Hit and Run, and Three Bridges
Jin (Bobby Lee) opens the episode with a ridiculous interpretation of Robin Masters’ new book as the group takes turns visiting with T.C. (Stephen Hill) as he settles into a veteran’s hospital in an attempt to get used to the possibility of being stuck in a wheel chair and paralyzed below the waist for the…
Magnum P.I. (2023) – Out of Sight, Out of Mind, and Charlie Foxtrot
Magnum (Jay Hernandez) and Higgins (Perdita Weeks) have their first real tiff, which is something that both regret when Higgins ends up in serious trouble. Out of Sight, Out of Mind was written by David Slack and debuted on 16 April, 2023. Magnum has to have a chat with Childs (Micheal Rady) about the events…
The Mind Reels 