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Aloha to TEN Years of Immunity and Means

Last night was the series finale of Hawaii Five-0, a show I have watched for the last ten (10) years of my life. I know it was a reboot and I have seen the original but it doesn’t change the fact that I had that moment when I realized, “holy shit! I have been watching this for ten years?” Then the thought “what was I even doing 10 years ago when this premiered?” And finally, “so much has changed since I started watching this show.”

The reboot premiered on September 20, 2010. I was a freshman in college. The series ended on April 3, 2020. I am a lawyer. So much has happened in between those two dates, on the show and in real life. It also doesn't feel like it's been a decade. But through that decade Hawaii Five-0 has been there.

Not many of my friends watched the show but my dad did (we have very similar taste in movies and tv shows). Yea, I’m sad the show has ended. My dad even remembers being sad when it ended the first time around. People would say to us (separately), “you watch that?”, “it’s so cheesy”, “it’s so predictable”, “it’s so outlandish”, or “it’s so ridiculous” and my dad and I would respond “yea, I know, your point?” and would tune in each week to see what was going on with McGarrett, Danno and the Five-0 Task Force.

In other cop or legal shows, writers try to stay within the bounds of what the characters would be allowed to do in the real world. Sometimes they miss the mark and I find myself telling talking to my tv saying “they can’t do that!” or “that’s not how this works!" With Hawaii Five-0, I never had to do that because of three simple words: Immunity and Means. Of course, it’s a ridiculous notion in real life but it provides for entertaining television.

There are people out there who won’t like the finale that aired and that’s ok. Personally, I got the one thing I wanted in the very last scene, so I am quite content with how it ended. But, no matter what, I’ll still miss new weekly carguments between McGarrett and Danno. Aloha. ✌
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