Spent some great day-after-Christmas TV viewing time catching up on a couple of DVR'd back episodes of the new Hawaii Five-O. I have to say that the new version of this classic TV show is hooking me. Alex O'Laughlin's Steve McGarrett, like the Jack Lord incarnation of the original, is a no-nonsense Supreme Bad Ass, who is willing to get down-and-dirty with the bad guys like Lord's McGarrett never did. And unlike James MacAurthur's Danny Williams, who was the ultimate yes man to McGarrett, the Scott Caan version takes no guff and gives it right back to McGarrett. Their bickering by-play is becoming a pretty nice piece of comic schtick in the show.
The highlight of the two episodes that I watched last night was the return of super villain Wo Fat. How great is that? This Wo Fat does not look at all like the old Wo Fat, who was played by the late Khigh Dheigh (below left). For you old movie buffs, Dheigh played the evil villain in the original "Manchurian Candidate." When I saw the new Wo Fat, I said to Marilyn that he looks like the guy who introduces the secret ingredient on each episode of Iron Chef. After doing a little Googling this morning, I found that he is indeed "The Chairman" on Iron Chef. He is actually an actor named Mark Dacascos (below right).
It is going to be great to watch the return of one of television's all time greatest cops battling it out against his arch nemesis. That, my friends, is must see TV!
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