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One good episode, one bad; one boring, one with exciting fights. This show is becoming aggravating. Too much of a roller-coster, never know what we're gonna get.

Reno doesn't appear until half hour in or so. Dude from Summer School (Ken O.) appears. Show starts once again with SixKiller driving. Ken O is a sheriff. Then he's not. Boring Las Vegas. Strip club. Reno arrives and it looks like we're in for a fight with him defending a ho. But nope: the fight is ho-hum boring with zero form here.

I got very bored here. Bobby 6Killer gives Al from Quantum Leap a run for his money, copying his fashion style when he shows up in a gaudy gold blazer (that's orangey-yellow to ya) over a lavender shirt. Um, okaay. Instead of futuristic pin to boot, he wears his bolo tie over it. They're in the middle of talking (6Killer and a sheriff) when show ends. I think they bothered to cut to Reno riding off. What the F was that?

Lorenzo Lamas' acting is still solid here. Ken O's character is annoying. Good looking dude but (come to think about it) not great in the personality department. At least the ones he used for acting. Dude hasn't acted in 10 years then had a role last year. Weird. No current pix of him here. Brainscombe was hamming it up. Meh! Don't think Cheyenne was in this one. Not sure. I got bored to a stupor. No Duck Dixon. 3/10 and we're back downhill with this shiow.

I don't know how to feel about this show, yet. This episode appears to be one of the best with twists and turns and better acting. Plus, it features Stephen J. Cannell, who also has improved in the acting department. I'm really impressed by him. So I continue to watch, sometimes feeling like it's a very corny show, sometimes admiring how they've improved. This story is a 2-parter and I don't really like those. And the previous one was also a 2-parter and on the boring side. Kind of waiting to figure out if I like this show or not, where it will go. This one has a LOT of that annoying harmonica music, filmed mostly outdoors, which I find overkill.

It starts with an outdoors wedding, very well presented, beautiful setting and choice of colors... then all hell breaks loose; think Guns & Roses' wedding in November Rain. Ok, that got me hooked but it promptly takes a different turn. An interesting one and yet a somewhat boring one. How to rate this one?

I started watching this show because of Lorenzo's "cool look" that came on at 4AM when I was bored and couldn't believe my eyes at what a terrible actor he was. So completely inept, it amused me and fascinated me that he got the role for his own series like that, so I stuck to watching because I was laughing out loud at Lamas' Acting 101 attempts to be the character yet failing miserably. Ditto for the writer-turned-actor, Stephen J. Cannell.

Start of S2, and I'm floored: the guy actually LEARNED what acting entails. He did a 180 with his craft. WOW! Yeah, floored. But I'm not laughing anymore, I'm kind of bored. I've missed quite a few episodes.

Anyway, this episode is kind of exciting in the sense that there's twists and turns as to Dutch Dixon, and they finally catch up to each other. And then "To Be Continued". Next episode (airing tomorrow) is "The Trial of Reno Raines", so that's kind of give-away as to what happened in this one.

All in all, it was entertaining for what it is. I am overrating it, it's not really a good show but I appreciate the acting effort. Even the writer got in those acting classes and improved tremendously. (I wish I knew who taught them and what class they took. Acting for the camera? How to be in character?) If there's footage, as there often is in those classes, even back when, I'd love to see some.

Anyway, so it has boring elements. The acting when Dutch and Reno first meet is a bit choppy, with dropping character at times, but nothing like it was in S1. Both have improved by leaps and bonds. I'm fascinated by J. Cannell as he was really atrocious in S1. (I take it most NORMAL viewers quit watching at that point. After all, this aired orginally past 10PM!) It was fun to watch J. Cannell trying to think how his character would react and going thru the motions while being out of character. That's hilarious to watch, and is usually kept, like I said, in Acting 101 or classes for beginners.

It's interesting how they presented the dilemma for Reno, to befriend this crooked cop and take the $100,000 and call it a day, or keep on being the TV show hero and bring him to justice... or kill him to avenge Val's death, his girlfriend in the pilot. Choices to be made.

All in all, it's entertaining cheese. Probably worth a 4/10 or 5/10 for the very best of the episodes in this corny series, but I like to reward effort and I'm grateful to be thus entertained. I don't choose to be a hater, but people's ineptitude or dislikeable defects turn me into one and those are the best to pen critiques for. Not with this one: I was rooting for Lorenzo from the minute I saw my 1st episode from S1 here, cos I could see how hard he was trying. And that meant he cared about his viewing audience and his (then non-existant) craft. I also really really like how J. Cannell looks in a $5000 suit. WOW. Beautiful man. Also they have really bad extreme close-ups on Lorenzo here, from below the chin where he looks awful. Terrible camera angle, which makes us, the hoi-polloi, feel better that he could then look as homely as we, non plastic surgericized humans are, LOL! Ok, ok! I'm giving this a VERY GENEROUS 7/10 and let's see where this leads in tomorrow's conclusion.

After a few exciting episodes due to very well-choreographed fights, we're back at mediocrity here. The story is a snoozer. Boring! Lorenzo hesitates before saying his lines, and he's lost his newly-found, season 2 cool. His wife #4 (out of 6? 7?) has my thoughts drift to her elongated facial disharmony and the disbelief that Lamas actually married her, considering what he said about the "perfect" looks of his following wife.

I am still baffled as to why J. Cannell would call the Indian character "Sixkiller". It's dumb when you hear him say it. We have the cliched "corrupt sheriff in the boonies" TV trope and it all makes for a very slow and boring episode, coupled with the short-haired blonde woman who plays his daughter. Another poor actress who is also delivering her lines in staccato mode, hesitating, a la Captain Kirk.

I had missed the episode title and i come here to see that it's top rated?? Oh, hell no! What are this show's viewers puffing on that they overrate the worse of the worst, here?! Can't account for taste but seeing this and that there were no reviews, there you have it, folks. 1/10 is all this one deserves.