Charlie's Angels: Moonshinin' Angels (1981)
Season 5, Episode 7
7/10
Better than it looks on paper
21 January 2023
No one in Hollywood understands economics. I know these writers are all wooden-headed dummies whose strings are pulled by Communist handlers, but let's be honest: they're all economic dimwits anyway who want the rest of the country to be as ignorant as they are.

At one point Bosley, trying to come between two feudin', fussin' and fightin' groups of moonshiners, says it's a free market. You can't have a free market on an illegal or black market substances.

Free markets can only be free if they're legal. That way, demand sets the price. On illicit substances demand can only drive prices higher and as with gambling (even legal gambling) the House has the upper hand. I could give the idiots lessons in economics but they don't want to learn.

Hollywood writers get by with fibbing tropes. Quicksand doesn't work like it does on TV. Neither do silencers, leading even fools who manage to get elected by bigger fools think they can silence machine guns. These writers have art thieves always cutting valuable paintings from their frames, which means whoever is paying for them is getting damaged goods, which no self-respecting underworld art collector will pay for. And, BTW, in the real world there aren't any underworld bigwigs with rooms full of pilfered art, though lots of stolen art finds its way into the hands of Central and South American drug lords to pay off on drug deals.

I suppose it's difficult to churn out stupid TV shows week after week but the canard is, "Write what you know," and these dopes don't know much.

That said, the writers of "Charlie's Angels" this time stole an idea that might've played on "The Dukes of Hazard" with a story torn from the pages of Shakespeare: two feuding moonshine families with young people in love with each other. But will it end like "Romeo and Juliet" or the movie "The Big Country"?

Moonshine runners are legendary where I come from, though there's not a lot of that here, which might've been fun.

The Angels look good in skimpy designer outfits but, frankly, the blue-jeans and flannel shirt look works for me. They don't show a lot of cleavage this time out but I think they look great.

This is a slight yarn with phony southern accents flying back and forth. The Angels look great and while these California southerners (perhaps from down San Diego way) have patriarchs with gravitas (one is Andrew Duggan). It's silly (how does Kris suddenly make better "moon" than professionals?) but it's fun if you don't use your brain too much.
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