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| Is that like Spenser for Hire with Robert Urich?
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| I was hoping for more Jesse Stone.... 
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| Seems more like a bad boys continuum than a SFH series..
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
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| 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.
Laughing in the face of danger is all well and good until danger laughs back.
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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. |
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| Just watched it today. Mildly entertaining. Lobstah!  |
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| I'll watch.
Even though I think Marky Mark is a shitty actor he does manage to make into some good roles. |
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| I have no idea what the original story is - but this looks pretty fun. |
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