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sparkle on! it’s Wednesday! don’t forget to be yourself!

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sparkle on! it’s Wednesday! don’t forget to be yourself!

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Season 6 is a trip

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This is WHOLESOME 

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local cryptids 

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for fellow Magnum fans out there in preparation of next Wednesday

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I didn’t necessarily consider this episode to be weird enough to end up on my Non-Hitters List, but a lot of people tend to think Season 1, Episode 8 “The Ugliest Dog in Hawaii” to be uneventful and corny at worst. Not much happens all things considered—Thomas helps a marine biology student, who is afraid of dogs but took a job dog sitting for cash, escape mobsters trying to kidnap an ugly dog. There’s a drawn out chase scene in the latter half of the episode, but it has its goofy fun moments!

Much like “Tropical Madness” and “Black on White”, this episode follows up a series of rather serious plots with hard hitting stuff, so if anything it’s meant to be more goofy and fun. A dinosaur of a mobster, who yells all of his lines, who wants to kidnap a dog? Thomas and a college student afraid of dogs getting chased by hired thugs through a weed farm and banana trees? If you need a laugh, honestly I had a riot watching this old ass mobster yell every single line. I kid you not, he had no idea how to be quiet. We also get treated to Rick in disguise as a pool cleaner for Robin’s Nest, and arguing with the thugs about whether Robin Masters even has a pool.

My Magnum, P.I. Non-Hitters List (Ongoing)

Season 2, Episode 7, “Tropical Madness”

Just a weird vibe from writing Higgins to crush on a much younger woman out of nowhere. It’s just a me problem I think, it felt skeevy coming from Higgins when that wasn’t the vibe I personally got from him. It threw me off track. And most of the episode is just Thomas and Higgins fighting back and forth about who is more attractive to women and how unappealing Higgins should be to younger women. Thomas has a twinge of jealousy in his pursuit to uncover the woman being suspicious and it was very frustrating watching him never say the right thing. We know Thomas is a himbo and he doesn’t always say what he should right off the bat, making things look worse for himself.

Higgins punching Thomas was a treat, though! We never see that from him again as far as I’m aware and it’s funny. He did that after all their bickering culminated in upsetting Jennifer Chapman while she was shooting skeets with Higs.

Season 3, Episode 6, “Black on White”

I went over my feelings about this episode in a post. Essentially I found the pacing to be off and the social commentary to be misplaced at times when it came to discussing the British in Kenya. MPI can be introspective frequently, but it really depends on the writers and it was the early ‘80s.

The twist was insane??? I don’t say this to mean bad or good, the ridiculous reveal was actually hilariously unexpected and I laughed. It was just so batty?! It was trying to make a good point and I appreciate that, but it was just so weird. Only in the ‘80s, man.

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My Magnum, P.I. Non-Hitters List (Ongoing)

Season 2, Episode 7, “Tropical Madness”

Just a weird vibe from writing Higgins to crush on a much younger woman out of nowhere. It’s just a me problem I think, it felt skeevy coming from Higgins when that wasn’t the vibe I personally got from him. It threw me off track. And most of the episode is just Thomas and Higgins fighting back and forth about who is more attractive to women and how unappealing Higgins should be to younger women. Thomas has a twinge of jealousy in his pursuit to uncover the woman being suspicious and it was very frustrating watching him never say the right thing. We know Thomas is a himbo and he doesn’t always say what he should right off the bat, making things look worse for himself.

Higgins punching Thomas was a treat, though! We never see that from him again as far as I’m aware and it’s funny. He did that after all their bickering culminated in upsetting Jennifer Chapman while she was shooting skeets with Higs.

Season 3, Episode 6, “Black on White”

I went over my feelings about this episode in a post. Essentially I found the pacing to be off and the social commentary to be misplaced at times when it came to discussing the British in Kenya. MPI can be introspective frequently, but it really depends on the writers and it was the early ‘80s.

The twist was insane??? I don’t say this to mean bad or good, the ridiculous reveal was actually hilariously unexpected and I laughed. It was just so batty?! It was trying to make a good point and I appreciate that, but it was just so weird. Only in the ‘80s, man.

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Magnum, P.I. Season 3 “Black on White” did nooooot hit for me unfortunately. Gonna have to add it up there with my personal list of Non-Hitters, which actually didn’t even have a list until I finally got a second plot to make it an episode list!

Feeling gaslit by everybody on Magnum Mania fr 💀 But hey listen, it wasn’t all a dud. We got Thomas and Higgins forced to quarantine together shenanigans and I think we should’ve just gotten a Thomas and Higgins quarantine episode without any weirdness. And by all means, give Thomas a case to do from actual quarantine, because that is an interesting challenge. It’s just “Black on White” tried to be a heavy hitter with certainly provoking dialogue in some areas, but the pacing was off; plus a bizarre mixture of treating Africa as a whole a bit jokingly but while Higgins manages to show profound respect and knowledge in a few ways. Thomas popping out of the closet with a gorilla mask on while ceremonial Maasai music was playing was… a rather unfortunate choice?

I partly disagreed with the message the episode sends you off with, because the antagonist we are presented with ended up truly being a monster. I think the message can be really context dependent, depending on what a person has done. I can’t always leave it to Higgins, even with the decades of experience behind much of his wisdoms, to understand the other side of a wartime conflict fully. He is, after all is said and done, an upper class British white man with some twinges of elitism and colonialism he can never seem to escape from. Even so, I think the actor playing the antagonist did a great job playing them with a lack of sympathy and deeply haunted by their past actions—not in a way that means they’ve changed, but the fact their extremely dark actions were finally catching up to them and they couldn’t bear to face them. In a twisted way, the character did show they felt guilty for what they did, and felt they should not have lived without punishment for their horrible actions, but also continued to be racist. So strange; intriguing, at least.

I don’t necessarily want to spoil what the antagonist did, but I did like the way it was revealed to us—trying to fight back against the memories, not wanting to let them through, but they kept pushing and pushing second by second until we get the full picture of those moments. They don’t want to remember, but they’re forced to. By the by, the one other episode on my Non-Hitters so far is “Tropical Madness”.

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Silly doodle of an idea I had while watching the Wizard of Oz...

Higgins would be the wizard, of course.

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Higgins: How did none of you hear what I just said? 

TC: I’ve been zoned out for the past two and a half hours. 

Rick: I got distracted about halfway through. 

Thomas: Ignoring you was a conscious decision.

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Shoutout to those frootloop trios. Gotta be one of my favourite dynamics.

Btw, HDToday/HiMovies is down 😭 Anyone know of any other free sites to stream the o.g Magnum P.I?

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I'm impatient, I'm obsessed - here's a collection of Rick Orville Wright Gifs that nobody asked for.

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Not MASH today but my diva and icon Orville Wright deserve his edit