Starsky Vs. Hutch

DVD, Starsky & Hutch S4 (Starsky Vs. Hutch)

For an episode that is the second to last of the entire series you'd think they'd have come up with something more original than a crazy soldier guy killing off girls from a dance club. We've had both of those things before, the girls part was in the first episode of the season! And it's not good having the guys angry at each other - sometimes it works; look at 'Gillian', but Arlene was such a slimeball, you could have no sympathy for the mixed up situation she makes.

The episode doesn't live up to the title - it sounds more like the 'The Game', but it's only an unprofessional rivalry over that slimeball lady! And they used Richard Lynch again, after he'd been another villainous loon in Season Three. At least Minnie makes another appearance, but this whole situation is not what you'd hope for in the last proper episode, when you want to see them working together. They don't even work out who the villain is until he exposes himself in front of all of them, as they were so busy moping about that awful woman, who has her morals in a scramble (because one of them's incapacitated in the final story you don't get any more traditional setups).

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