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Post by mandyblue on Dec 31, 2014 7:33:05 GMT -5
FIVE-0 ENLISTS THE HELP OF AN OLD-SCHOOL PRIVATE DETECTIVE TO SOLVE THE MURDER OF A YOUNG WOMAN WHO WAS SECRETLY WORKING AS AN ESCORT, ON “HAWAII FIVE-0,” FRIDAY, JAN. 2
William Forsythe Guest Stars as the Old-School Private Detective
Doug Savant and Eric Roberts Also Guest Star in this Episode
“Wāwahi moe'uhane” – Five-0 enlists the help of an old-school private detective to solve the murder of a young woman who was secretly working as an escort, on HAWAII FIVE-0, Friday, Jan. 2 (9:00-10:00, ET/PT), on the CBS Television Network. William Forsythe guest stars as the old-school private detective. Doug Savant and Eric Roberts also guest star.
(*Wāwahi moe'uhane is Hawaiian for "Broken Dreams")
CHEAT TWEET: #H50 fans, say ALOHA 2 guest stars @ericroberts, #WilliamForsythe & #DougSavant! 1/2 9pm #Five0Fridays bit.ly/1vWhC0T
REGULAR CAST:
Alex O’Loughlin (Steve McGarrett)
Scott Caan (Danny “Danno” Williams)
Daniel Dae Kim (Chin Ho Kelly)
Grace Park (Kono Kalakaua)
Masi Oka (Dr. Max Bergman)
Chi McBride (Lou Grover)
Jorge Garcia (Jerry Ortega)
RECURRING CAST:
Amanda Setton (Dr. Mindy Shaw)
Mirrah Foulkes (Ellie Clayton)
GUEST CAST:
William Forsythe (Harry Brown)
Delys Kanemura Recca (Brooke Waiakea)
Youngaisa Wily (Ani)
Andrea Roth (Kiana Thompson)
Carlie Casey (Annie Reese)
Christopher Latronic (Cory Kaniaupio)
Grace Phipps (Erica Young)
Doug Savant (Robert Young)
Eric Roberts (Richard Sheridan)
Trevor Kuhn (David Waring)
Krista Alvarez (Assistant)
Byron Ono (Brooke's Father)
STORY BY: Peter M. Lenkov
TELEPLAY BY: Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt
DIRECTED BY: Sylvain White
At last a new episode on Friday 2nd January 2015 to watch.
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Post by Kee on Dec 31, 2014 12:32:24 GMT -5
Gee I hope Alex has a bigger part in this episode.  |
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Post by katlyn520 on Dec 31, 2014 18:45:47 GMT -5
Gee I hope Alex has a bigger part in this episode. It's that sense of humor that we love about you, Kee!  |
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Post by ritter on Jan 1, 2015 0:23:39 GMT -5
Mandible I already posted the topic.
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Post by mandyblue on Jan 1, 2015 1:33:16 GMT -5
Mandible I already posted the topic. Hi ritter sorry I never saw the post for episode 5.10 |
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Post by katlyn520 on Jan 1, 2015 6:16:58 GMT -5
Mandible I already posted the topic. Hi ritter sorry I never saw the post for episode 5.10 We should probably designate mandyblue to do that for each new episode since she's the one who originally picked up that responsibility from the board owner. Besides, ritter, you have your own board that you have to maintain so that's probably more of a responsibility than we'd want to put on your shoulders when your own H5-0 board needs your attention. |
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Post by Dannos Dani on Jan 2, 2015 22:19:51 GMT -5
Too long without any new shows to watch so maybe I expected some big shakeup show to start off watching again.... this wasn't it. It wasn't bad, it just wasn't huge, you know?
I did like the retro PI beginning.
Got flashbacks of Melrose Place and King of the Gypsies when I read the guest stars' names... and then waited.... and waited... and waited for their respective 1.5 and 1 minutes on screen. Really, why bother getting these people on the show, if you run the risk of blinking and missing their whole appearance?
Jerry and Chin as the Odd Couple were good - reminded me of when Danno and Steve roomied. But I missed something - who's the kid?
Liked Kono's romantic wakeup. How long before this marriage ends? Because you know it won't last.
Gah, I hate boxing, so the whole Ellie-Steve scene was wasted on me. Love her accent, though.
Dr. Shaw and Danno are definitely a cute couple. Wouldn't mind seeing them get together. Loved the shades of Dexter thrown in there. Any possibility Danno will solve her friend's crime?
Glad Harry is leaving, otherwise I'd be expecting to see his face up on the opening credits. But I did like him and wouldn't mind having him back sometime.
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Post by cookiejar on Jan 3, 2015 9:36:17 GMT -5
Liked the old school detective, that he was part of HPD and played poker with Steve's dad.
Story was ok. I can see Dr. Shaw and Danno getting closer. Ellie is ok but thought boxing scene was stupid. Not ready to see Steve date anyone.
Liked Chin and Jerry together.
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Post by davilarose on Jan 3, 2015 9:40:10 GMT -5
I guess I expected more for the first episode of 2015.
The cast is getting too big----trying to get everyone on camera doesn't leave anyone with a lot of on screen time.
I did like the scene between Dr. Shaw and Danny....they would make a nice couple. Better than Amber.
One thing that bothers me---TPTB do so little advertising for this show. Not that I watch CBS all the time, but when I do watch, I see everything BUT H50 promos. I am not looking forward to seeing the numbers for last night's episode.......
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Post by mandyblue on Jan 4, 2015 2:09:37 GMT -5
I likes what Wendie said about this episode
BY WENDIE BURBRIDGE / Special to the Star-Advertiser
I don’t know about all of you, but I love classic film noir detective stories, where the private eye is a little cynical, a lot damaged, and sexier than sin. I suppose we could use some (or all) of these traits to describe McGarrett and Danno, but really the entire set up of this week’s episode, “Wāwahi moeʻuhane,” which in Hawaiian means “Broken Dreams,” really worked as an homage to the old-school detective trying to save a damsel in distress story.
I think my favorite parts were the smokey voiced narration of special guest star William Forsythe, as ex-HPD detective-turned-private-eye Harry Brown, as he told the backstory of poor victim Brooke Waiakea (played by real-life hula dancer and entertainer Delys Kanemura Recca). Some may have thought it melodramatic, but I loved the poetic way he analyzed his situation, the murder of Brooke, the way her father would react, as well as the reality of McGarrett and his dedication to all victims in the world.
Really, the voice-overs could have been really hokey, but I thought they were an interesting way to tell a very common story. Like Brown says in the opening voice-over: “The American Dream: Everybody’s chasing it. Some find it. Most don’t. Then there’s the unlucky few who die trying to find it.”
“The unlucky few” include young Brooke Waiakea, who headed off to the big city to find her dream of becoming a star, only to fall into the evil hands of a money-hungry villain and her untimely end. We’ve all seen that story, right? But add in a bit of world-weary narration, tinged with sadness and just a sliver of hope, and I’m hooked. It made the overused plot seem even more interesting — and up until almost the very end, I was still guessing whodunit.
Yet, even though the storyline was nothing new, the episode was, and I very much enjoyed the different take on the case-of-the-week.
In Hawaiian, wāwahi means “to tear down, shatter, wreck, dash to pieces, break into, demolish,” and moeʻuhane means “to dream” or, more specifically, “to soul sleep.” And there was a lot in the story that dealt with dreams, which helped add some really nice depth to the episode.
Written by Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt, from a story by executive producer Peter Lenkov, and expertly directed by Sylvain White, there was a great deal of revelation about characters and relationships. There was definitely a lot more depth to the investigation of a story that perhaps we’ve heard far too often in our cinematic world, and sadly, in the real world as well.
There’s always a girl trying to leave something behind for something better, who falls into bad luck, spurring some great detectives to try and solve her murder/disappearance/kidnapping. That is perhaps why I thought the film noir aspect of this episode really worked.
I also liked that hula was used as in the plot — albeit please don’t think that when you watch a hula hālau dancing in a lūʻau at your hotel in Waikīkī, that the dancers also moonlight as escorts. That is very far from the truth. Hula dancers train for years and are serious professionals. All hula dancers take their craft, and the stories they tell through hula, very seriously.
In truth, the writers could have made murder victim Brooke a singer or an actress, and the story would have still played the same way. Yet, this is “Hawaii Five-0,” so why not use a profession that is specific to Hawaiʻi? So I did appreciate that this episode really could have worked only here in the islands. And adding an actual hula dancer like Recca, from a known hula family, to play Brooke helped me like the episode even more.
There was a lot to like in this one. McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) and Danno (Scott Caan) seemed to be getting along just fine. I did love Danno’s advice on not signing up for being set up by McGarrett’s workout partner, P.A. Ellie Clayton (Mirrah Foulkes). I also liked learning more about Max’s (Masi Oka) new partner, Dr. Mindy Shaw (Amanda Setton). She and Danno had a nice getting-to-know-you scene. Perhaps Danno will be moving on to a girlfriend closer to home, I mean, work?
And yes, I did catch Danno saying how he “didn’t understand surfing.” I personally wondered how much Scott Caan laughed on set as he said that line?
I also liked how the bad guy kept changing, though it would have been nice to just have a couple of bad guys to focus on instead of four. David Waring (Trevor Kuhn) was the first suspect in Brooke’s death, until Chin (Daniel Dae Kim) found him dead. Then poor ex-beau Cody Kaniaupio (Christopher Latronic) turned up with blood on his hands, but was just a “love-lorn kid with a busted heart.” Guest star Eric Roberts became the third suspect, Richard Sheridan, the owner of the boat that took poor Brooke to her watery grave in a marine pod, and then — who would have thought — the father of Waring’s to-be-bride, Robert Young (Doug Savant), was actually the killer.
Oh, but wait, there actually was a fifth suspect — evil madam Kiana Thompson (Andrea Roth), who set the girls up on dates but swore there was “no money exchanged.” I was glad they didn’t make her character a kumu hula. That would have been very insulting to our great hula experts and teachers.
All the Five-0 team members, including Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), got involved in the case of the week in the "Wawahi moe'uhane" episode of "Hawaii Five-0" that aired Friday. (Courtesy Norman Shapiro/CBS)
All the Five-0 team members, including Chin Ho Kelly (Daniel Dae Kim), got involved in the case of the week in the “Wawahi moe’uhane” episode of “Hawaii Five-0″ that aired Friday. (Courtesy Norman Shapiro/CBS)
It was really great that the entire team got to be involved with all of the investigation: Kono (Grace Park) and Chin shook down Brooke’s roommate Annie (Carlie Casey) and caught Cody red-handed; Grover (Chi McBride) worked a lot of the clues and tracked down people via the magic table. I also loved the sweet Kono scene at the start when Adam (an unseen Ian Anthony Dale) leaves her a trail of flowers to a platter of breakfast and a sweet note. And we had a couple of scenes of comic relief with Jerry (Jorge Garcia) — now Chin’s roommate — who is on the job hunt and involved in the marketing and sale of garlic shrimp plates for Kamekona (an also unseen Taylor Wily).
But, really, the star of this one was Forsythe and his gumshoe ways and everyman poetry as he broke down the suspects and the case. The scene when he comforts his old friend Mr. Waiakea (Byron Ono) as he kisses his dead daughter good-bye was lovely. And when McG tells him he can’t blame himself for Brooke’s death, he says something that I think the entire Five-0 team understands: “Men like us, weʻre born to protect and serve. When somebody dies that we could have saved, then that doesn’t go away.”
So even if you didn’t like the narration by a non-Five-0 team member, or you disliked the hokey detective style poetry, you had to appreciate Brown’s farewell summation of the case and McGarrett: “Time doesn’t heal all wounds. When someone you love is ripped from your life, that scar stays with you forever. But the one bright light in all the darkness is knowing that men like Steve McGarrett are out there making sure the good guys come out on top.”
And that is definitely a good part of the dream — that men like that are out there in our world — on the fictional Five-0 and in real life.
Redux Side Note
I hope you all noticed the adorable Youngaisa Wily who played Jerry’s clever programming mentor Ani in this week’s episode. I’m sure many of you realized that Wily is the son of recurring cast member Taylor Wily who plays the incomparable Kamekona.
Besides actor Wily and actress Recca, other Hawaiʻi actors were showcased in this week’s episode. Christopher Latronic who played ex-boyfriend Cory Kaniaupio most recently played Timo in fellow “Hawaii Five-0” actor Keo Woolford’s film “The Haumāna.” He also played the lead “Billy” in the film “Truth or Dare” written and directed by Hawaiʻi filmmaker Tom Boyle. Byron Ono, who had a heartbreaking scene as Brooke’s Father, was also in “Hana ʻaʻa Makehewa” (“Desperate Measures”) where he played the Bomb Squad Captain.
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Post by Kee on Jan 8, 2015 23:23:50 GMT -5
One thing that bothers me---TPTB do so little advertising for this show. Not that I watch CBS all the time, but when I do watch, I see everything BUT H50 promos. You must be missing it then because I see previews for Five-O each week. I watch all the NCIS shows and they show them at that time. At least Steve was in almost every scene...extra credit there.  As I mentioned in my 5.06 post, Ellie was going to be Steve's new buddy...a current day Ellie Mae Clampett. Ironically Donna Douglas, who was Ellie Mae, passed away yesterday (sniff). Yeah, that's all that matters, right? Maybe they can have one show where Steve is in a room and he just sits there reading a book. No dialogue, nothing. It would be boring as all hell but you'd watch it. Can you name the other people on the show? What city is this show located in? Go ahead and Google these tough questions. I'll wait. |
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Post by katlyn520 on Jan 8, 2015 23:30:51 GMT -5
One thing that bothers me---TPTB do so little advertising for this show. Not that I watch CBS all the time, but when I do watch, I see everything BUT H50 promos. You must be missing it then because I see previews for Five-O each week. I watch all the NCIS shows and they show them at that time. At least Steve was in almost every scene...extra credit there. As I mentioned in my 5.06 post, Ellie was going to be Steve's new buddy...a current day Ellie Mae Clampett. Ironically Donna Douglas, who was Ellie Mae, passed away yesterday (sniff). Yeah, that's all that matters, right? Maybe they can have one show where Steve is in a room and he just sits there reading a book. No dialogue, nothing. It would be boring as all hell but you'd watch it. Can you name the other people on the show? What city is this show located in? Go ahead and Google these tough questions. I'll wait. Kee, you need to learn to read "tongue in cheek" because that's how I read the comment from blondiechic about Steve being in almost every scene. And even if it wasn't a tongue-in-cheek comment, just because someone's opinion isn't the same as yours doesn't mean it's open for ridicule. I'll bet you were a bully in school. |
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Post by Kee on Jan 9, 2015 9:35:32 GMT -5
I wouldn't put money on that because I wasn't. There's just so much more to this show than Alex O'Loughlin. Personally I think he does a great job and he has made the Steve McGarrett role his own. But after five years of following this show online the Alex worship that I have seen from some people (not blondiechic) has been borderline ridiculous. It's one thing being a fan and it is another thing not caring about anything else but acquiring the latest picture of him. Then again maybe I shouldn't be too hard on these people because this is probably all they have since no one in real life would look at them twice. |
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Post by Dannos Dani on Jan 9, 2015 22:22:05 GMT -5
Since I know Blondie a lot better than Kee does, I can assure you her Steve comment was directly aimed at Kee, who fell for it, hook line and sinker and gave her the reaction she was fishing for, just for the hell of it.
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Post by katlyn520 on Jan 10, 2015 2:54:03 GMT -5
I wouldn't put money on that because I wasn't. There's just so much more to this show than Alex O'Loughlin. Personally I think he does a great job and he has made the Steve McGarrett role his own. But after five years of following this show online the Alex worship that I have seen from some people (not blondiechic) has been borderline ridiculous. It's one thing being a fan and it is another thing not caring about anything else but acquiring the latest picture of him. Then again maybe I shouldn't be too hard on these people because this is probably all they have since no one in real life would look at them twice. But that's the thing. You ridicule people just because they're fanatical fans of someone. Who CARES if someone is an over-the-top fan? Who cares if someone wants the latest picture of him? In the grand scheme of things, does it lessen your enjoyment of the show? Because if it does, then stop reading what people are posting online about it. You didn't get all that from this site so clearly you're following it more than just here. And saying that 'no one in real life would look at them twice' makes you more obnoxious to me than they could ever be. Maybe you weren't a bully in school but you're making up for it now. Ridiculing people from behind a made-up name is how cyber bullying starts. That's far worse than any "online scrapbook" could ever be. |
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