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Magnum P.I. - Season 1
Thomas Magnum is an ex Navy soldier who was serving at Afghanistan. After he got back from there, he uses his military experience to work as a private detective in Hawaii. He gets a job as a security consultant on Robin’s Nest where he meets the pretty young woman, Juliet Higgins. Juliet is the majordomo there and she has some troubles that lead Thomas to enter into it.
2 September 1983, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
25 January 1975, Saigon, Vietnam
1 November 1965, Kiev, Ukrainian SSR
22 December 1982, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
September 24, 2018
There's no evidence, however, of the old Magnum twinkle.September 24, 2018
Sure, there are cosmetic changes (Higgins is a woman now), but once you get past the name, this could be any detective show, one likely to rise or fall on Hernandez's appeal and Magnum's camaraderie with his various pals.September 21, 2018
[Lenkov] knows how to deliver a slick, easy-to-watch take on an action-adventure classic, with just enough modern updates for a traditional audience.September 24, 2018
Bonus points to CBS for reimagining Higgins as a former British Intelligence officer, as a woman, and for being unafraid to destroy the odd luxury sports car here and there.September 21, 2018
You won't be left with the old Magnum P.I., but something unnatural; an empty, unrecognizable hybrid lurching through the jungle.September 24, 2018
The plot is serviceable, which is all it needs to be, but there are car chases and helicopter stunts and banter all the while.September 21, 2018
The new Magnum, by contrast, has plenty of bare knuckles and bullets, but no real heft or even direction.September 24, 2018
The Magnum P.I. reboot feels unnecessary at best and absurd at worst, and the level of ridiculousness never reaches guilty-pleasure status.September 21, 2018
Hernandez is good in what's otherwise a pallid, uninspired facsimile of the original.September 24, 2018
The new Magnum P.I. is perfectly fine, but in an era when so much television is first-rate, is "perfectly fine" enough to keep a show on the air?