Every episode with Flula as Skip Tracer Randy is a comedic treat :joy:
Wasn't going to watch this as the story was complete in just the 1st season. Gave it a look though & have to admit, it doesn't look like it will have much/ anything interesting to add to the original premise.
Semi-spoiler.
Why has Zach / Zack character not been killed off or turned 'muncher' yet? Honestly the wide-eyed pursuit of his mom Kelly, who is clearly interested in his pulsating blood, is just getting silly now!
Roger Robinson is back again as Gil Weaver (rocking some VERY 70s threads!) and this mafia story starts to look like it may become a war. But it's not as cut and dried as the story may appear at the start. Betrayal and double cross is just the start. Throw in some kidnapping and two tragic lovers and you have a season opener double episode. Welcome to season two, baby! It's one wild ride of dialogue, that sounds better delivered by the regulars than it looks on the page.
Episode 2 gets the tone right. An investigation episode, detection & the odd fight (+ extra car stunt) keeps the pacing of the series. Glad that the title sequence is so close to ORIGINAL Magnum P.I. , it's a little homage every episode.
The end... JOHN CONSTANTINE!!!
Would love to have had a second series, joining those massive crossovers in the DC universe shows. Maybe?
Deeper in season 2 but it's finally here....the Trejo Coffee and Donuts cameo. :thumbsup:
What a rug pull. Excellent handling and a great way to narratively address this second season being so different to the first in it's overall feel.
Jerry Orbach returns to the world of Kojak (as a different character) Andre Braugher and Telly Savalas have some classic Kojak dialogue exchanges,band the scripting is back up with best of the series episodes. A good show put to bed a little too early.
It's the penultimate Kojak film and Telly Savalas is reunited, on-screen, with Kevin Dobson (now Assistant DA Robert Crocker!)
Detective Blake is the most active regular character, the storyline focused more on the machinations of the bad guys. Also can't avoid mentioning Theo's choice of headgear, a beret
Kojak and Blake are still the most engaging characters, but the rest of the squad features more in the story this time.
Lieutenant Kojak and Detective Blake are bedding in as comfortable characters in the 'mystery movie night' format. Location street footage is used more sparingly in this story. A rather odd accent from Paul Guilfoyle too.
Andre Braugher as Detective Winston Blake is superb. An engaging realistic and truthful foil to Inspector Kojak. A twisty plot that as an audience we are drawn through by engaging actors. And a return to form with those cutaways of REAL New York streetlife. :statue_of_liberty:
Kojak as a 'noir' storyline. It doesn't use or rely on the major components that made the TV series so good. No snappy dialogue exchanges, no appearance by any of the old guard, underused New York street locations. Still Telly Savalas is a star performer.
Back (after 7 years) and the gang's... mostly all here Theo, Stavros, Rizzio and Captain McNeil. It's a crusading storyline pursuing the ugly truth about the WW2 war criminals who escaped and evaded justice, often with tacit and official assistance. Max Von Sydow is on good form and it's good to see Telly dressed by Botany 500 and furnished with great dialogue. Like he was never away from protecting NYC, baby!
"I guess there's nothing left to say. I know you've worked real hard for this."
"It was nothing. In the end it's all just a piece of cake."
A trip to Vegas, cracking TWO cases and chatting to Liberace! What a penultimate episode. :boom:
Paris!
No the story is going to take place in New York. After the film star and photographer are no longer at odds...the tragic 70s ending becomes inevitable.
Crocker with a hat is just....unusual. The whole is 'played for laughs' and feels so much lighter and throwaway than previous episodes. I wonder if the storyline was influenced by Telly's racehorse ownership?
As the old saying goes "It's always the quiet ones." And another episode where Kojak doesn't get the girl. :hospital:
Although it's not a competition Kojak succeeds in closing out the case without any injured cops. The fact that the bad guy doesn't face his defeat is merely incidental, baby.
Shelley Winters is a comedic 'middle-aged woman' and almost steals the limelight from Telly. A light storyline in which nobody is hurt, beaten, stabbed, shot at or killed.
Kojak takes on...the system!
Well it's really chasing and proving corruption that has resulted in a killer of a friend walking free. All in the dialogue and like that. :statue_of_liberty:
"Your position fell apart a long time ago and I'm too tired for compassion...Doctor Shane!"
The dialogue is just :ok_hand: perfect. Sparkling in the storyline.
"Beware the Ides of March, baby." :lollipop:
It's difficult to imagine a career change for Kojak, after all he's a principled man and he's a cop through and through. The quip at the end is a bit of a throwaway line.
Lads from the squad out on a boat, so we get a different angle on New York and it's marinas. The storyline twists around a retirement, avaricious and criminal lawyer, bungled arson resulting in homicide to list a few. And a reassuring happy ending! :lollipop:
Theo gets to play out as a P.I. ... but he's still all cop, and like that!
Excellent role played by Erica Hagen as secretary Donna Socrates. Delivering those counterfoil lines back to Kojak.
We loved ya baby!
Great performance by Stephen McHattie as the primary villan in this two partner. But I must say that Pepe Serna is the standout naturalistic acting as the friend Rudy Diaz. Kojak even has to take 'vacation' time to solve the old and new case.
Great performance by Stephen McHattie as the primary villan in this two partner. But I must say that Pepe Serna is the standout naturalistic acting as the friend Rudy Diaz. Kojak even has to take 'vacation' time to solve the old and new case.
