Black and Blue

DVD, Starsky & Hutch S4 (Black and Blue)

Title's good (comes from the line "you may be black, but your uniform's blue), and there's flashes of good stuff (Huggy's charm on full tilt, Captain Dobey involved as he has been this season, that little old lady who'd got terminal cancer...), but a lot of the characters are hard to connect with, and it's really only another story about Starsky falling in love (again) and Hutch in hospital, only arriving at the last minute to save the day (again), and the racial and gender issues seem odd in today's world. From a historical perspective I suppose it is interesting, and of course it all still happens today, but still it feels a less enjoyable thing to watch, without all the good stuff that made 'Manchild on The Streets' so worth watching (oddly the guy that influenced Junior for the bad in that one was another character in this one). I can't deny it looks good, with some nice camera moves and expansive shots, but it didn't have the little something that would have ensured a good episode. And I thought there was a final scene with the old woman, but there wasn’t.

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