‘Hawaii Five-O’ Recap: ‘Ike Maka’

Yawn… wake me up when Wo Fat returns.

The story lines are really getting silly this season. Last week, it was a cancer patient who killed a cop who was going to arrest his exotic medicines dealer. This week, it’s a plastic surgeon who kills a patient to cover up a procedure gone wrong. I can only imagine the brainstorming at writer meetings — “Next week, let’s have a pizza delivery guy kill someone because he didn’t deliver it in 30 minutes or less, and he doesn’t want to get fired.”

I like that the show is trying to inject humor into the writing, but it feels forced. The audience doesn’t really need Max (Masi Oka) playing dress up two out of the last three weeks. His character was amusing at first, but it now feels like his idiosyncrasies are being overplayed for laughs. At least the preview for next week’s episode looks promising. Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos) and Joe White (Terry O’Quinn) are back as are the big explosions. I like it when things go bang.

Here’s this week’s look at The Good, The Bad and The Weird.

The Good

• Another shirtless McGarrett. Gotta keep those female viewers to boost ratings.
• Danno and McGarrett playing roommates. Talk about “The Odd Couple.”
• “Three minute showers were a luxury in the Navy.” — McGarrett. That’s about how long my showers used to take too. Until I learned that a proper shower involves shampoo, conditioner, body wash, facial cleanser, etc. Now I’m in there so long my fingers get wrinkly.
• Just as I was going to complain about Kono not being part of the action again, BANG! Kono’s a sniper. Cool.

The Bad

• Wet hair look on Officer Westin. Didn’t like it.
• Masi Oka’s line delivery. He emphasizes every fifth WORD, and it’s becoming quite ANNOYING.
• The lazily written episodes are all the same — opening discovery of dead body, light moment (usually a cargument or similarly humorous scene), phone call ending with “on my way,” chase scene, first fake murderer in dark interrogation room, next chase scene, second fake murderer gives key information on real murderer, usually a seemingly harmless character introduced within the first 10 minutes.
• Red-headed Bostonites coming to Hawaii to hide out. Yeah… they won’t stand out here.

The Weird

• “Going west on Bishop Street” — I wonder if real cops use the North, South, East and West directions or mauka, makai, Ewa and Diamond Head.
• I could be wrong, but I think Dr. Bergman should’ve said “implants” and not “implantations.” You don’t find implantations in a person’s body. An implantation is the act of inserting an implant.
• Spam musubi and loco moco-scented air fresheners. Would you buy this product?
• Laura German playing dress up in skimpy outfits not once, but twice this episode. Exploit much?

Sorry, but I couldn’t follow the live Twitter feed this week, so no favorite tweets. I’m sure I missed some classic ones.