Hawaii Five-O Is A Stupid Show That I Keep Watching

The poster is basically all you need to know about this show. The guy on the right has badass sunglasses and the rest of them are staring with their steely eyes at the camera apparently undeterred by the fucking ocean pounding them with waves.

I guess the story behind it, if you can call it a story, is that this guy, the main character, who was in some military thing like the army or navy or whatever, comes back to his home turf of Hawaii after an international terrorist murders his father. The governor of Hawaii lets him have some kind of elite police/not police strike force for no apparent reason, so after he beats up and shoots the evil terrorist, he stays on the island and recruits a team of badasses to beat up and shoot all the other wrongdoers in Hawaii.

The show turns out to be this blank check sort of a deal for the writing staff in terms of the stories they can do. First of all, the show is meant to be a cop show, but they can conveniently masquerade as not-cops whenever they want to so they can do some of that technically-illegal-but-still-good stuff that TV cops always like to do. The setting, Hawaii, has access to every type of setting and person a cop show would need while still being a somewhat small community since it's an island. So, in other words, they can do anything they want and get away with it without it feeling too ridiculous.

For what it is, I like it. If you're a JDUB type, who likes watching shows that you can sink your teeth into, plot or character wise, then no, it's not for you. I like watching a wide variety of shows, so even something stupid like this can strike my fancy. It's not The Wire, which is the benchmark for all cop shows, but it can be more exciting to dumb people like myself. :D