Worth Watching: ‘Hawaii’-‘Magnum’ Crossover, ‘High School Musical’ Opening Night, ‘Country Music’ Repeats, More ‘Extreme Love’

Matt Roush January 3, 2020, 7:00 am

A selective critical checklist of notable Friday TV:

Hawaii Five-0/Magnum P.I. (8/7c and 9/8c, CBS): The long-awaited crossover of the Aloha State reboots has finally arrived — which may explain why Five-0′s McGarrett (Alex O’Loughlin) is driving fellow former SEAL Magnum’s (Jay Hernandez) cherry red Ferrari in one scene. The action begins on Hawaii Five-0 when Team McGarrett turns to Magnum, Higgins (Perdita Weeks) & Co. to help retrieve a list of undercover CIA agents that may have been stolen by one of the P.I.’s marks. In the second hour, Hawaii‘s Tani (Meaghan Rath) and Quinn (Katrina Law) lean on Team Magnum for rescue assistance after their colleague Junior (Beulah Koale) is kidnapped and the CIA benches the rest of the Five-O agents.

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High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (streaming on Disney+): The show must go on, and as the curtain pulls back on opening night in the season’s penultimate episode, the cast is rocked by the presence of some unexpected audience members. (Look for the Act 2 finale next Friday.) In other musical news, the Encore! series travels to Louisville to reunite former classmates from Youth Performing Arts High School to recreate a production of ’70s classic Pippin from 35 years ago. Will there be “Magic to Do?”

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Country Music (9/8c, PBS, check local listings at pbs.org): In case you weren’t part of the 34.5 million viewers who got caught up in Ken Burns‘ celebrated docuseries about the history and legacy of country music, PBS is repeating the eight-part opus in more manageable weekly two-hour chunks, on Fridays through Feb. 21. The first night, “The Rub,” provides an evocative overview and charts the beginnings of the national musical sensation through the impact of early radio stations carrying these catchy heartland tunes to rural audiences. In the first of many biographical portraits, Burns traces the short but influential career of early country legend Jimmie Rodgers.

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Extreme Love (10/9c, WE tv): Under the heading of “It Takes All Kinds,” the kinky docuseries returns for a second season of nonjudgmental glimpses into unconventional relationships. Among those profiled in the opener: a woman from Berlin who is deeply in love with a Boeing 737. (Is “Come Fly With Me” her theme song?) Preceded by a new season of the spinoff Love After Lockup: Life After Lockup, following seven fan-favorite couples as they try to build lives together on the outside.

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Inside Friday TV: Streaming highlights include a final season of Netflix’s Anne with an E, in which the title heroine (Amybeth McNulty) begins exploring her origin story as her 16^th birthday approaches… Broad City‘s Ilana Glazer makes her stand-up debut on Amazon Prime Video with Ilana Glazer: The Planet Is Burning, which seems an appropriate sentiment for this outspoken comedian… In what could be the creepiest episode yet of Servant on Apple TV+, Uncle Julian (Rupert Grint) babysits the mysterious Jericho and is forced to relive a dark memory.

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Jena
Jan 3, 2020
Guess I'll be watching CBS all evening.

Not sure why I can't access this comment section on Chrome. On every article, the page goes from the article, to that awful "quiz" that I always ignore, straight to the dark-grey Newsletter Sign-up block at the bottom of the page. Instead I have to use Edge, and it's terribly lag-gy, and has lots of annoying ads. Very slow. Not sure why others can comment using Chrome for this site, but I can't.

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  RedElephant
  Jan 3, 2020
  My comments and replies are constantly being deleted.
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    BlueTooth
    Jan 3, 2020
    Hi Fred,
    
    We just looked at all posts posted under your username and IP and don't see any deleted or rejected comments from your account. Is it possible you are commenting without logging in or having issues using the commenting system? If so, please see above comment to Jena.
    
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  BlueTooth
  Jan 3, 2020
  Hi Jena,
  
  We just tested this on a few computers running Chrome and then spoke to the staff at SPOT.IM. If comments are not showing up in Chrome but are showing up in Edge, it could be related to an ad-blocker issue or some sort of chrome extension conflict. The first step would be to check if using Chrome incognito works. If it continues to be an issue, can you please give us as much information about the system you are using, such as OS, browser version, etc. And if at all possible, a video would also be extremely helpful to pinpoint the exact problem.
  
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    GoldScooter
    Jan 3, 2020
    I use Chrome daily to check in here. No problems ever.
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  RedElephant
  Jan 3, 2020
  Jena...I use Edge...with the uBlock Origin add-on...and have NO speed/ad problems...(the ads are so numerous/annoying that I would not consider revisiting this site without uBlock)...
  
  But...the Comments don't (consistently) Update automatically for me...to see your Reply to my YESTERDAY Comment...I had to click on the "bell" next to my user name on TODAY'S page...to return to YESTERDAY'S Worth Watching...