OK, Netflix is doing a Spenser series with Mark Warburg. Not a bad pick for Spenser. Of course they had to mess with the origin unable to leave well enough alone. It looks OK. The only issue I would have is that the original series had it so perfect in casting and writing that Spenser fans will be hard to please.

Watched the trailer & read the YouTube blurb. So much wrong in this trailer from the books & TV series/movies the it's impossible to watch for this fan.

Is that like Spenser for Hire with Robert Urich?

I was hoping for more Jesse Stone....

More Jesse Stone would be nice and I'm a big Spenser fan, but this new Spenser series ain't it.

Robert Parker is rolling in his grave.

Seems more like a bad boys continuum than a SFH series..

I'm a big Robert B. Parker fan. Read all his books, loved the Spenser for Hire Series - have it on DVD. Love the Jesse Stone movies - have all of them on DVD.

Watched the preview trailer, that ain't right! Just wrong, wrong, wrong.

I think like the Magnum TV show you just have to try and forget the original and think of this as a new show. The biggest insult is that with all the Parker books they base this on one he did not write.

I'm sure the action will be good and like the first Reacher movie, if you never read the books Cruise did a good job. Just let parker and Ulrich rest in peace while I can now bitch about Spenser and Reacher.

Up next the female transgender James Bond.

I was a huge Spencer for Hire fan. I liked both Robert Urich and Avery Brooks. I also enjoyed the BMW L7 my man Hawk drove.

I will give it a chance.

I lived in Boston for the original Spenser for Hire series, and had been in a lot of the places that they shot scenes.

That was a really good TV show.

Ughh...

I like several Wahlberg movies so this is not aimed at him per se, but Jesus H. Couldn’t they just leave well enough alone!

The tone is all wrong, I can’t really explain it better then that. If they hadn’t tried to link this show to SFH it probably would be worth watching. However, if they are going to try and use the nostalgia for the old series then they needed to better replicate the tone and feel of the old show.

Besides, no one will ever be Hawk except Avery Brooks.

So I'm a fan of the books. The Spenser for hire series not so much. Marky Mark? Seriously?

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Originally posted by DrewR:

Besides, no one will ever be Hawk except Avery Brooks.

1000%

Arguably the best, most accurate (book resemblance), believable casting choice of a TV series character that I can think of.

Just watched it today. Mildly entertaining. Lobstah!

I'll watch.
Even though I think Marky Mark is a shitty actor he does manage to make into some good roles.

So far I have watched 3/4 of the movie and it enjoyed it before calling it a night.

Upon waking up and re-evaluating what I watched, I am not sure I enjoyed it because of the show itself or because I am visiting family here in Florida and was bored after everyone called it a night about 830pm.

I never really watched the Original and I never read the books so I have no preconceived notions.

I have no idea what the original story is - but this looks pretty fun.

I sat through it today. Wish I had taken a nap instead.