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SO
IS IT ANY GOOD?
Tom Selleck and his award winning moustache are back
for a second helping of cool Hawaiian fun and danger. This second season
seems to pick up a gear as the writers and producers (the legendary
Donald P. Bellisario and Glenn Larson) sought to give us more focus on
Magnum himself, traces of his backstory emerging revealing he is a Navy
Seal and that he used to be married in South East Asia whom Magnum
believes dead, it’s this kind of detail that elevates Magnum above the
norm and prevents it becoming just another Tec show.
Delightfully unformulaic in fact and full of quirky
humour Magnum is one of the best shows to come out of the 80’s and
whilst Magnum is essentially a detective show the producers gave the
audience enough intelligence and deviated from the line more than once
with non crime episodes, at the heart of the series too is the humour
factor, especially in the relationship between Magnum and Higgins (in
fact this season started something of a trend as John Hillerman gets his
first double role playing his half brother Elmo Ziller!)
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