Paniolo (6.8)

[eagle]

Watching this one tonight.

I absolutely love the hotel featured in this episode, and will have to visit it when I finally make it to Hawaii.

[nha trang]

Watched Paniolo tonight on my series rewatch. I have softened up in the nearly 10 years since my original review. While not a classic and not my favourite, it was ok for what it is. It is watchable. The red shirt is funny lol

And Will reminds me of Al Pacino which gave me a chuckle!

Nha Trang

[ENSHealy]

He is a student of western history, and has an eye for the details in period tack and gear. He has his saddles custom made by Jerry Croft of Deadwood, South Dakota and the newest model by Croft has been dubbed the "Tom Selleck".

If this is true, you would have thought he might have been able to correct the script in the opening voiceover, when it referred to the "dark hills" of South Dakota instead of the Black Hills:

MAGNUM: When counting the assets of paradise, you have to start with geographical diversity. Take the Big Island of Hawaii, for instance. Twenty minutes
in any direction and you've been to the dark hills of the Dakotas, the ranches of Texas, or even the moon and the beginning of time. Impressive.

[Pahonu]

I don't know the full story either, but they definitely lost access to it for a brief period of time.

This episode IS pretty weak, but I still really like the setting and the shootout finale!

The one thig I want to know is what in the he!! is up with the shirt Magnum is wearing at the end while standing bedside. It looks like something from Blazing Saddles!

Yeah, me too! What in the world....

I just noticed several of the comments about TM wearing the cavalry shirt with the western belt, boots, etc…. I also read a comment about the baseball cap being an unusual choice as well.

A friend of mine who has been a park ranger for the last 25+ years in Yellowstone and previously lived in Bozeman, told me several things about modern-day cowboys that I was surprised to learn. He told me many of the cowboys he encounters wear baseball caps at work and put on their expensive cowboy hats to go out. If you catch them at a bar right after work, they likely have the baseball cap on. He also said most of them use quads, pickups, Jeeps, and the like today, and that denim is still king, though the boots they wear aren’t always the stereotypical type we might expect. Sunglasses and handkerchiefs for the dust are also very common. No comment on the cavalry shirt though!

[ENSHealy]

EPISODE: 6.8 PANIOLO

Famous guest stars:
Hawaiian shirts:
Tigers Cap:
Island Hopper shirts: 1

Shirtless Magnum:
OMG:
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings:
Negotiations:
Gun Play: 1
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking:
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections: -2
4th wall breaks:
Magnumometer: 0
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/604336295

Not one, but TWICE, the teeny-bopper, telegram-forging rancher referred to TM as a P.I. and Magnum did not correct him! So I gave a -2 for investigator corrections, bringing the Magnumometer down to a zero for this one. Which kind of seems about right, actually. The plot was confusing and hard to follow. And would Kenny really have still gotten the reward if it was his right-hand man that started the whole rustling gang, and was doing two years for it? Seems like a bit of a disconnect there. And a $100,000 reward? That gang must have been moving A LOT of beef!

But there is a nice outtake photo of Higgins in the credits…
…and I chuckled when they all showed up at the quarry and it’s Higgins, and not the cops, leading the way. He regrets that he has but one life to give for Robin’s cattle ranch.

[charybdis1966]

Oh dear,

this is a completely new episode to me and boy what a clunker !

A slow, dull, unengaging story with no highlights and with a western back drop which I find deeply tedious and I struggled to stay with it till the end.

I noticed the writer was Jay Hugely, is it fair to say that he wrote a higher than average proportion of the series' rotten eggs ?

Oh well, hopefully things pick up after this nadir.


EDIT - just seen the next one has bl***y Carol Baldwin in it....

[Treadwell]

I rated 8, although now I wish I'd rated 7.5.

It was entertaining enough, but I generally agree with all the criticisms already mentioned.

I know they do this a lot (giving Rick or TC something to do in the episode), but TC providing vital information to the plot over the phone that he obtained off-camera is pretty weak.

Speaking of ouchie stunts, that ledge in the quarry seemed pretty high. I was wincing on behalf of the stunt man jumping off of it.

I didn't do the math, but I don't think TM reserved enough in his payment to cover TC's expenses.

The RM angle was weird: the rancher threatening to call him. Well, go ahead, then, you're the one up to no good! If you don't, I will!

[CanadianP1]

This was reasonably entertaining and while I agree with some of the criticisms (including Rick and TC being shoe-horned in), I enjoyed the western feel and especially appreciated seeing a little more of Hawaii and learning about some of the history/culture.