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Remember
A Hazard to your health. I may be in a slim minority
here, but I never found much reason beyond this show when
it ran in syndication back when I was younger aside from
drooling over Daisy Duke. Now don’t get me wrong, Daisy
was hot for her time, but now we have the likes of Natalie
Portman, Mandy Moore, Jessica Alba, Angelina Jolie, and
Jessica Simpson (who portrayed the character in the awful
DOH movie). Sadly after being spoiled by many a hotter women
in Hollywood today the actress playing the original Daisy
begins to loose her appeal, especially when she’s up against
such imbecilic and predictable story archs. In this season
the Duke Cousins, Vance and Coy arrive and begin a new series
of adventures while Bo and Luke start a career racing in
NASCAR circuit. I found the original Dukes (Sans Daisy)
to be annoying enough as it is, but when a show looses it’s
leads it’s time to end the show. Yes I did say the same
thing about X-Files!
Although the original Dukes did come back eventually,
but even so, this season seemed kind of pointless to me,
done at a point where the show was either out of good ideas
(not that it ever had any beyond Daisy) or the actors got
so sick of their parts that they decided to try their hand
at something else… OR the studio didn’t want to give them
a raise… But regardless of the reasons this season came
off as a poor attempt to try and revive a dying franchise,
much like what happened to X-Files when Mulder quit, and
Sculley’s role was significantly reduced.
My main gripes with the series remain intact. The Sheriff
is too much of an idiot to make an effective nemesis, and
he’s too stupid to be funny, worse yet the narrator tends
to give away far too many plot twists just before they happen
and the plots were predictable enough as it is.
I assume that if cops that are portrayed as inept,
presumptuous and “out to get” anyone they don’t like, or
cars that would be considered beat up pieces of junk today
being driven really fast, or drooling over Catherine Bach
are your thing you may like this show, but it offers little
by way of artistic value and can be categorized as mindless
entertainment. (2 out of 5)
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Final Words:
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In general Dukes of Hazzard
remains very popular, but for me, being someone who looks
for genuine artistic value in a production, I found very little
I felt was truly entertaining about this. Then again, hot
women, and fast junky cars have never been enough to keep
me occupied. The show certainly isn’t the worst to ever air,
but sadly is a far cry from the best. My recommendation is
a very much for fans only. I can’t see younger audiences who
did not grow up with this show getting into it, as the series
feels a lot like the movie, which was generally was poorly
received and taught us that a hot babe in short shorts does
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