Hawaii Five-O - The Complete Eighth Season
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Actor: Harry Endo, Herman Wedermeyer, Jack Lord, James MacArthur, Kam FongBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Spanish (Dubbed)
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1213 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2010-03-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Hawaii Five-O - The Complete Eighth Season
DVD Review: Five-0 Season 8 delivers more great episodes!
Summary: 4 Stars
I recently picked up Season 8 and skimmed through most of the shows, which I haven't seen in some time. Overall, I think season 8 is an improvement over season 7, with better guest stars (Ed Asner, Donna Mills, Susan Dey, Dan O' Herlihy, Lew Ayres, George Takei, John Colicos, Pat Hingle, Charles Durning, Adam Arkin, Helen Heyes), and of course several strong episodes at the top of the season to kick things off. Additionally, McGarrett has ditched the awful cream-colored suit and jet black hair dye (he doesn't seem quite so pasty as in the last few seasons). In fact, the sideburns seem a little shorter, the suits are a little less garish, and the music scores are very good.
The 2-hour opener has great production values and is a good espionage thriller with Wo Fat, although he doesn't seem to have much to do other than sit around on his hydrofoil and let his henchman handle all the dirty work.
Other great episodes include "McGarrett is Missing" wherein he survives a plane crash in the jungle with a convict from season 2; "Death's Name is SAM" in which terrorists attempt to blow up a jetliner using surface-to-air missiles; "The Case Against McGarrett" features McGarrett being held hostage in prison by Honore Vashon, and is the wrap-up to the season 5 Vashon trilogy; "Retire in Sunny Hawaii Forever" features Helen Hayes as Danno's aunt investigating murder at a retirement home; "The Defector" is another great espionage thriller involving a Red Chinese agent; "Deadly Persuason" features a psycho out to murder the visiting royal family; "A Touch of Guilt" is about a senator's son who's involved in a gang rape. I think overall there are fewer lousy episodes this season than season 7.
Some other observations about the DVD set itself:
-The song used in "Sing a Song of Suspense" is intact
-The disclaimer on the box from previous seasons, "Some episodes may be edited from their original network versions", is NOT on the box this time around.
-They use the same shot of Danno and Duke on both the front and the back of the box
-Either I'm getting used to it, or the JL picture on the front of the box looks better than it did in the web artwork. Maybe they touched it up a tad so it didn't look quite so photoshopped.
-It's interesting that inside the disc cases, they have another new nighttime shot of downtown Honolulu, again looking very modern like the season 7 cover shot.
I am watching S8 upconverted to 1080p on a Blu-ray player on a 46" plasma, and I actually think S8 looks sharper and less grainy than several of the previous seasons. This could have more to do with the film stock they shot on back then, which I suspect changed throughout the show's run, and also with how the film was processed back then. I don't really think the remastering has changed during the DVD releases, as really the resolution looks the same throughout each. I also suspect the earliest seasons looked brighter and more colorful simply because shows in the late 60's in the early days of color TV seemed to go crazy with lots of bright colors (Star Trek, Five-0, Lost in Space, Gilligan's Island, etc.).
I have really been enjoying the new music scores from many of the season 8 episodes. Morton Stevens, Bruce Broughton and Don B. Ray, the music supervisor of Season 8, introduced a number of music cues in season 8 that I liked a lot(most of them didn't seem to get used in further seasons unfortunately). In fact, I think season 8 was one of the very best seasons for consistently great new musical scores.
4 more seasons to go, and season 9 (hopefully coming sometime this summer) is another winner. Thanks CBS-P!
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