Moonlighting ( Pilot)

 

This is was different... I remember watching Moonlighting on its first run- and I remember seeing repeats at 11 am on weekdays during the 1990s. I watched the pilot with Robyn once

Cybil Sheppard is radiant. The show makes no bones of this- Her character Maddie is a former model. The pilot opens with a montage of Sheppard's magazine covers. Strangely her character once she discovers she is penniless refuses point blank to go back to modelling - I get the feeling a contemporary  TV show would dive deeper into that reluctance 

Sheppard changes costume a lot. 

I finished this with a lot of respect for Sheppard-If for no other reason her climbing in high heels  She is great. It is interesting to see a female protagonist after watching Magnum, and Simon and Simon 

Willis I found hard to take. The way he delivers dialogue I assumed he was doing coke 

We have a comic Italian chef breaking plates. Which could be pilfered and exchanged for money 

We also have a ``punk'' bad guy- Who is being chased by men in suits what an inversion. The bad guy blows a kiss at his quarry

Alice Beasley- Coaches daughter plays Agnes

Brian Thompson - Luke and the Judge on Buffy plays one of the bad guys 

  Dennis Cleveland Stewart- Who played the leader of the Scorpions in Grease plays the Mohawk man here. The Mohawk man who is seen loading a gun in the early part of this episode -forgets he has a gun later on 

The McGuffin is a bag of diamonds hidden at the end of World War Two. I did wonder was the Mohawk man supposed to be a Neo Nazi. The location of the diamonds was concealed in a watch- which was bequeathed by  a father to his son 

The son is killed off, and we see his widow later on- she is supposed to be TV drunk 

It is very 80s. Jogging 

The dénouement is well done. A touch of the 39 steps, and the sheer horror of heights


I will watch more


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