The magic of Magnum PI
XY's life columnist El Jefe shuns a life of fun, friends and frolics...for daytime TV. And it's all down to eighties small screen legend, Tom Selleck.
Dan Brown could learn something in his next foray into the big screen by maybe casting a small fat child with a predilection to truffle shuffle as Robert Langdon
Like One-Eyed-Willy’s treasure map of “the Goonies” fame, and the Cryptex from the Da Vinci Code, I have been led to a potential gold mine of an idea by my avid watching of daytime television. Maybe this is not a great analogy; the “Da Vinci Code” really was very poor and I think Dan Brown could learn something in his next foray into the big screen by maybe casting a small fat child with a predilection to truffle shuffle as Robert Langdon in Angels and Demons. But I digress… During my copious free time the wonders of daytime television have been brought to my attention. I no longer have need of friends or a social life as “Neighbours just want to be good friends” or so my Plasma screen tells me.
It was during this twilight period between the morning rush hour and Dinner, whilst all the other members of my flat were bringing home the bacon. I discovered a programme that left me breathless and hungry for more…Magnum PI is both the greatest and most thought provoking TV show on the most obscure channels of your Sky plus. Tom Selleck plays Thomas Magnum, ex-special forces, navy seal, general hero and probably a chef. All day he prances around in his Ferrari solving crimes, with nothing to aid him but his very short shorts, flowery pink shirt and a combat issue Polaris moustache. Crime has nowhere to hide on the small area of Hawaii he inhabits.
How is this not highly entertaining? Can’t Sky see the potential and bring this show back to Prime time telly? The seven series produced hardly touched the surface! Can’t Tommy brush the dust off top lip, hairy girl magnet and get back into the saddle?
- El Jefe
