This week’s Hawaii Five-0 was a treat for the movie geek in me. All those impressive cars and the high-speed chase? Reminded me of the Fast & Furious flicks. (The last three of which were scored by Brian Tyler…who also gave us the H50 opening theme.)
Steve going up a moving crane in order to eventually tackle a suspect? Sort of like the opening sequence from Daniel Craig‘s first Bond film, Casino Royale.
That’s before you count movie night at Max’s place, with Lori dolled up like Olivia Newton-John in Grease and the medical examiner doing his best John Travolta.
It was a great episode for TV buffs, too.
The major guest star this week was Courtney Ford, who previously played Christine Hill in season four of Dexter and was later a scheming assassin dressed up as a flight attendant in the second episode of Human Target.
She was joined by Hank Stratton, who had a significant role as shifty accountant Isaac Reed in the final season of another CBS show, The Unit.
There was former Titus star Zack Ward playing the worst roomie ever.
And Third Watch and True Blood vet Chris Bauer as the victim’s boss on a cable ship.
Okay, now that I’ve dropped enough names for one week – it was also a pretty fun watch of an episode. Steve and Danny’s carguments moved indoors this week, as we found out Danny had left his weird little apartment and ended up on Steve’s couch, where he’d already begun grating on Steve’s nerves. Let the Odd Couple jokes begin.
Their bickering was broken up by the case of the week, which bounced from carjackings to mob ties before being revealed as an accident death during risky plastic surgery. It was a nice change of pace to have a death on a crime drama that wasn’t a murder.
And Grace Park with a sniper rifle? Not unlike Maggie Q with a sniper rifle from the first season of Nikita, only just a little bit cooler.
This week proved that when Hawaii Five-0 sticks to its guns (ha), it still works remarkably well for a crime procedural, and so we should not tinker with what works. It was just good, clean, rubber-burning fun.
And then – speaking of name dropping – it came out of left field again with next week’s preview, which showed us Jimmy Buffett in a helicopter. I don’t think we’re all going to get together and sing “Margaritaville,” are we?
Clacked by Brittany Frederick 
on Nov 15, 2011 @ 02:43 EST5EDT
I loved Steve and Danny trying to figure out why Max was mad at them – each blaming the other.
I do have to ask why was Danny on the couch? If Steve is in his family home there should at least be three bedrooms.
*POST AUTHOR*
I thought that too. My only guess is he’s down there because the TV is down there.