I was watching Enter the Dragon with my kids, who managed to make it through about 15 minutes before leaving to go fuck around on their phones or tablets or whatever, and I decided to Google John Saxon. I just found him a curious fellow, and was wondering what else I recognized him from.

Anyhow, I saw that one of his credits was a movie called Running Scared from 1980, and I had though that was the one with Gregory Hines and Billy Crystal in it, so I clicked, only to find that it was a Ken Wahl movie.

Ken Wahl. Shit, Ken Wahl. . . What happened to Ken Wahl?

I remembered that he was in Wanderers and a show called Wiseguy that I never watched, so I clicked on Wiseguy in Wikipedia, and kept reading about how critically-acclaimed the show was, but that it never quite hit it off with the TV audience.

I am through the pilot, and I can report the following: Wahl does a great job in the part, but it is kind of hard to watch "old tv" like this. The production value is just so poor. Mike from Breaking Bad is pretty good in there, albeit sans the gravelly low voice that he now intones, but the biggest thing I noticed was that they were trying to make a bunch of Italian mafiosos out of some dudes with the Surname "Steelgraves". I was like WTF? It almost lost me right there. I mean, why couldn't they just name the damn daygos "DiNolfo" or something and be done with it?

Anyhow, on to Episode 2. Fuck, the shitty thing about these old series is the sheer amount of episodes that went into each season! Feels like it will take a year to watch!

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Shit, 2nd Episode bad guy mobster is named "Mr. Patrice".

Why couldn't they give the guys in this show Italian names?

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He started making hair clippers.

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I loved that show back in the day.

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That was at a time when there was not a lot of quality TV shows, but that one stuck out. Wait till you meet Mel Profit.

Ok I am through 3 episodes and I am liking the show. I really get the feeling like Wahl could have really been the next big thing if he was cast in Goodfellas or Moonstruck something like that. From his Wiki page, it says he is married to one of the Barbie twins and went to high school in the south burbs at a place called Bremen, but that he is weirdly secretive about his past and family, and that he does weird shit to support rescuing animals.

Ray Sharkey does a bangup job as well. . . or should I say he "injects" a lot of energy into his characters. Turns out that wasn't the only thing coursing through his veins, as his page notes that he picked up an unwanted passenger named HIV through his intravenous drug use. To make matters worse, he kept is secret and went around Charlie Sheening girls for years - and actually infected them also before passing away himself in 1993. Sheesh.

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How are you watching it?

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It is on Tubi. Free

https://tubitv.com/

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As good as season 1 is,season 2 is that much better. Mel was great. I would rather hang with his sister.

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Good show. Better than a lot of shit that's on Netflix now. I believe it's on Amazon Prime also.

Loved that show as a kid. I should go back and watch it

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