‘Hawaii Five-O’ Recap: ‘Na Ki`i’

March 19, 2013

Myong Choi,

How does the saying go? “If you don’t have anything nice to say….” Well if I were to abide by that saying, this would be a very short blog.

I fully understand the need for filler episodes. It’s an extremely challenging task to write 20+ meaningful episodes in a TV season. There are times when characters need to just have fun with an episode, where there are no key plot developments, but just a simple case to help fill the gaps between the weeks. But with this week’s episode, “Na Ki`i,” the series has hit a new low.

All right, let’s just get this over with. Here’s this week’s look at The Good, The Bad and The Weird.

The Good

Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

The Bad

Having Dog the Bounty Hunter and his crew on the show represents scraping the bottom of the barrel of stunt casting.

“We’re not exactly the Waltons.” – McGarrett to his mom on their unique family dynamic. How is this still a relevant reference? The only people who’d recognize this reference are those who actually watched the original “Hawaii Five-0” during its run.

Two roller derby teams, not a single tita sighted.

“Dicey was the heart and soul of the team” – Roller derby coach. She meant so much to your team that the same day you found out she died, you simply brushed it off as an inconvenience comparable to a flat tire and resumed practice. Sure, that’s a natural reaction to a teammate’s horrific death.

The show once again proves that the concept of time has no meaning when there’s a story to tell. In the span of a few hours, the 5-0 team investigates the crime scene; Max performs an autopsy; Fong analyzes a ticket found on the victim; the 5-0 team visits the Kapiolani Rec Center to ask questions and returns to 5-0 HQ to discuss their undercover strategy where McG tells Catherine he’s already received permission from her commanding officer for the farcical charade of going undercover as a roller derby racer. This is all before lunch. Then later the same day, the roller derby team holds a tryout to replace their teammate, who was just found dead that morning. I’d really like to know how the 5-0 team is able to slow the Earth’s rotation this way. That knowledge would sure come in handy when I have a bunch of deadlines to meet.