Hawaii Five-0 (TV Series) Ohana (Family) (2010) User Reviews

1.2 Will Carry You through ***1/2

[edwagreen · 8/10 · 28 September 2010]

Interesting show where a person working on security is kidnapped and McGarrett and Dano are in hot pursuit of the culprits.

Anyone notice that in certain scenes, Grace Park looks like Michelle Rhee, the Superintendent of D.C. schools?

The show is a good one due to the constant conflict between the 2 guys. Nevertheless, duty always comes first and they put that aside to combat crime.

The big surprise here is the girlfriend of the kidnapped victim. How she hugs his son and takes him in when the kidnapping occurs. Even though I guessed it, it's a surprise regarding the person she really is.

If she didn't get incinerated, book her Dano as well.

Attention to detail, great directing and a fun script.

[paulklink · 10/10 · 18 November 2014]

I had no idea what attention to detail went on the set of Hawaii Five-0 until I was selected as a costar on this episode. Seeing the set dressers, stylists, etc. go to incredible lengths for authenticity and believability!

The director Brad is a people person who made all of us comfortable even the Child, Joshua, in the elevator scene where I am as the Father. Brad's patience and true empathy for the actors makes him credible and easy to work with.

The scrip is both interesting, exciting and FUN...having received the whole script and reading it all the way through for a sense of context for my role, I can share that not only was it written well, it was written with FUN and excitement for audiences to be captivated and unable to peel their eyes off the screen.

I'm honored and humbled to be selected from thousands of men who tried to get this role and what a pleasure it was working with the actors and actresses of Hawaii Five-0 and now being an alumni costar. Mahalo!

Great Show In Second Ever Episode

[shelbythuylinh · 10/10 · 16 November 2021]

We see Kono graduate, her cousin Chin giving her the oath to become a PD officer, Danny wearing ties to look like a detective that would later be taken off after season 2 and until the finale, and Steve trying to solve the first case with the team officially.

As they try to think of a new name for the task force after not knowing the name in the pilot. But Steve's antics and his rogue police ways is what is to come there to get the job done in contrast to Danny's bye the book ways but later becomes like his soon to be best friend.

Classic Bad Guys Sell the Episode

[Vexzy · 6/10 · 30 August 2017]

The classic "Serbian mobsters hate America" trope is used in decent form in this episode, and combined with the artsy camera shots and suspenseful action sequences, the flaws in it are hard to spot. However, there are a few. For instance, the idea that a former NSA agent could end up dating a Serbian spy (without doing a background check on her) is sort of hilarious in on its own, not to mention that she wasn't even a suspect in their investigation until they found her on a list of Serbian people living or visiting Hawaii (which was an unreasonably small list, considering how over 6.4 million people visited the islands in 2003 alone). Another issue I quite clearly saw while watching this episode was how the "hacking" scenes were outright ridiculous; to anyone with any experience with computers, everything on the computer screens in the hidden room behind the bookshelf was obviously fake. Overall, though, I still enjoyed the episode despite the errors I could see in it.

Makes the Pilot look like Shakespeare

[Quicksand · 1/10 · 1 October 2010]

Dug the pilot. Written by screenwriters returning to TV, and directed by film director Len Wiseman. This show could be the rare remake that works, I thought.

Episode 2 was generic TV crap of the easiest kind. Every show that fails makes the same mistake: shoot the pilot, make it good, get it picked up, then pawn off the rest of season 1 to inferior writers and directors. Episode 2 fits that cliché so neatly, I almost turned it off, but suffered through it just to say I gave it the chance.

The direction is lazy, with long scenes of uninteresting talking, shot as flatly as possible, before the next action sequence that (unlike the pilot) turned out to have little or no meaning. The ending can be seen a mile away. Even though the Governor gave our heroes carte blanche to do what they "had to do" to catch the bad guys (in the pilot), no explanation is given why our heroes can't just call the cops in on this case, since an important guy is kidnapped for his hacker skills. Our heroes find him thanks to random coincidence, our heroine finds out who the spy is thanks to random coincidence, and the Asian characters are ignored by the white characters except when it's time to give orders.

This is why remakes get cancelled. I'll give Episode 3 about twenty minutes, but if it's not interesting, then I don't care what the rest of the show has to offer. It's not fun, it's not funny, and only Scott Caan even bothers to play an actual character. I'm out, and I suspect the rest of America will be by mid-October.