Hindsight & Magnum, P.I.

For my social media hiatus I decided that for my daily writing exercise I'd blog. Get ready for a lot of me posting…

I've been going deep in the Amazon Prime video archives and started watching a childhood favorite show Magnum, P.I.

I know it's male fantasy porn, but I loved this show even with its terrible acting, meandering story lines, vomit inducing pendulum swings from almost ribald comedy to it's dramatic story lines.

It also made me hate all the women who cried at a drop of a hat instead of trying to take action. The show stars my perennial crush Tom Selleck, and even with the almost indecent booty shorts, and super tight Wranglers/Lee jeans - he's still a brooding, tall drink of water.

Magnum is former Naval Intelligence and looks like a wet dream in all white. He's a good bumbling Columbo-like detective, but he ain't no Jessica Fletcher.

But the character of Magnum is in a word - a bum...he drives a borrowed car, lives in a friend's house rent free, works maybe ten days a month if that.

He has a bar tab the size of a mortgage.

He don't break down on gas money for a helicopter which even in the 80's had to be a fistful of dollars to fill up.

And his biggest failure for me as a romance writer is the man is a horn-dog.

Besides his looks and empathy, the man has no other redeeming qualities. He wouldn't make a good husband or provider or much of anything besides the occasional bed mate until you meet Mr. Right. Magnum is Mr. Last Night...

Between T.C. doing his "Hello Nurse" routine every single time a woman walks by and Magnum's open leering I don't understand why I loved this show so much.

In the words of my daughter, FlamingoLegs - my inner child is yelling at the logical part of my brain to "stop ruining our childhood!"

The deeper I get into the seasons, the more I identify with Higgins. When I was a kid I absolutely loathed Higgins as a character as odious and uptight. I now strive to be more Higgins than Magnum. What have I become...

TL:DR The theme song is still a bop. Tom Selleck is a hunk of a man. Magnum is a mediocre detective, and at best a one night stand.