ColinJ
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Channel 4 have started showing Hill Street Blues again! It seems to be on every night very late (or very early if you prefer to think of it that way). I'm recording the show and watching it a more civilised time.
It's 28 years since the first episode was made (can it really have been that long
). In some ways it looks a bit dated now, but I'm still really enjoying watching it again.
It was such an influential and innovative show. So many things that are now mainstream were pioneered by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll.
Dark, grainy footage looks so much more real than having everything perfectly lit. American actors with imperfect teeth, spots and worry lines - when do you see that now? Sexism at work. Crap clothes and hair styles, tedium punctuated by moments of extreme violence and sometimes slapstick comedy. Quirky and mentally unstable characters, relationship problems, ethnic tensions, political hanky panky - it's all there.
I remember that HSB did get into a bit of a rut in later series, but the early stuff was great.
Remember - Let's be careful out there!
It's 28 years since the first episode was made (can it really have been that long
). In some ways it looks a bit dated now, but I'm still really enjoying watching it again. It was such an influential and innovative show. So many things that are now mainstream were pioneered by Steven Bochco and Michael Kozoll.
Dark, grainy footage looks so much more real than having everything perfectly lit. American actors with imperfect teeth, spots and worry lines - when do you see that now? Sexism at work. Crap clothes and hair styles, tedium punctuated by moments of extreme violence and sometimes slapstick comedy. Quirky and mentally unstable characters, relationship problems, ethnic tensions, political hanky panky - it's all there.
I remember that HSB did get into a bit of a rut in later series, but the early stuff was great.
Remember - Let's be careful out there!
