MacGyver (TV Series) The 'Hood (1991) User Reviews

Terrible

[justinboggan · 3/10 · 29 May 2014]

LIGHT SPOILERS

Call me psychic, but when an episode begins with MacGyver moving into a neighborhood full of aging '60's hippies of different sorts, faux hip scoring, a credit for a character named "Robo", and an open-shirt old hippie with long hair, you know a stink fest is about to descent upon you. And if you hang around, you'll be proved right.

A by-the-numbers plot, more clichéd characters that are also overdone, bad writing, and another horribly wasted episode.

Some actress overhears something, blah blah blah, people try to get her, blah blah blah, who cares.

And good God, he's moving in and sharing a space with the aging hipster. I guess this means we'll see him again.

My brain hurts from watching this.

Better than the previous episode, but that's not saying much

[mojorecords · 4/10 · 4 January 2023]

MacGyver had a habit of introducing new, mostly annoying characters and having them reappear far too often. That's not to blame the actors, as I think for the most part there's a decent amount of good acting on the show, but they can only work with what they're given and I just don't like any of the characters in this episode. You can just tell that Mama Lorraine is one of those characters who are going to overstay their welcome. Sigh.

This episode is less annoying than it is just plain forgettable. Too many episodes in the later seasons of the show are throwaways like this one. I wish they would have given Harry a few more episodes instead or spent the time to come up with more interesting plots instead of just moving Mac and throwing new characters around him.