Hawaii Five-0 s2 ep 3
The dullest episode of the season so far. Members of a Navy SEAL team are being killed, so Steve and Joe team up. Yes – Steve and Joe. It might be with a view to expanding the storytelling possibilities of the show, thus increasing its longevity, but Danny didn’t feature at all for the first third of this episode, and it then took him another five minutes to share a scene with Steve. This, writers, is not what we watch the Five-0 for. (It should be said, of course, that Terry O’Quinn is perfectly good as Joe, and enjoys a rugged chemistry with Alex O’Loughlin.)
So I was reduced to noticing that the grieving widow of dead SEAL number 1 was our old friend Sarah Roemer, who played the lifeless hemi-alien Leila in The Event; and that the wonderful touchscreeny thing at Five-0 HQ has a USB port. Kono’s reaction to being booted out of the police is both badass and existential – all, what’s the point of my life, I might as well get involved with local gangsters. And her Five-0 replacement, Lori, managed to set feminism back just a little when her reaction to discovering that Steve used to be a SEAL himself was, more or less, to start pleasuring herself. OK, I suppose, but not great.
See what I mean about Kono and Lori? Blegh.
Blegh is right. I laughed at “Inspector Gadget” and “Are you the walrus?” but the rest was really boring. Apart from the skydiving rescue which was amusingly silly. Kono is awful in every way. Also everyone standing watching the big Seal op at the end was incredibly bloodthirsty and made me very uncomfortable. Summary execution is cool now, is it?
It keeps up the tradition of having a high gratuitous body count in every episode this season though! I suspect that showing us the SEAL raid was a set-up to give us a glimpse of what Steve got up to in Operation Stupid Name.
A bit dull. Definitely not enough bromance. But the skydiving rescue WAS wonderfully silly. And it’s always nice to see a familiar location from Lost (the pool with the little waterfall at the very beginning) pop up too. Still no sign of the smoke monster, though.
So Kono’s gone rogue, has she? Or is that just the impression we are meant to have?
Sadly, Sarah Roemer did not appear to have used any of her salary from The Event to invest in acting classes. ‘Lifeless’ sums her up to a T,
The skydiving rescue was great, there’s no doubt about that.
CJ – you’re out of step. Summary execution is awesome. Ask Lori.