21 Jump StreetPilot Parts I and II
DVD, Season 1
Valeria – TwoCents Reviewer
valeria@twocentscorp.com
When rewatching (or perhaps watching for the first time) the premiere episode of 21 Jump Street one can’t help but only imagine how Johnny Depp must feel about the job that made him a household name.
The show is dated, the dialogue, at times uncomfortable to listen to, but after sitting through the entire premiere, I began to realize, 21 was really a kind of starting block for modern cop dramas and outlandish teenage behavior on television – so maybe the show looks dated just because now I have Law & Order to compare it against. Not to mention, it introduced JD to the world – which is something I’m sure we’re all grateful for.
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21 Jump Street
ReplyDeletePilot Parts I and II
DVD, Season 1
Valeria – TwoCents Reviewer
valeria@twocentscorp.com
When rewatching (or perhaps watching for the first time) the premiere episode of 21 Jump Street one can’t help but only imagine how Johnny Depp must feel about the job that made him a household name.
The show is dated, the dialogue, at times uncomfortable to listen to, but after sitting through the entire premiere, I began to realize, 21 was really a kind of starting block for modern cop dramas and outlandish teenage behavior on television – so maybe the show looks dated just because now I have Law & Order to compare it against. Not to mention, it introduced JD to the world – which is something I’m sure we’re all grateful for.
The Premiere starts off with a break-in at an upper middle class home, where the parents and kids are not particularly enamored with each other – creating the perfect environment for the dorky, loser little brother to become a bona-fide heroin addict. The break-in, well, it happened at his house because he didn’t have the money to pay for his drugs – which he got from the repeat felon that he goes to school with.
This we all find out about thanks to the ingenious undercover program at a Chapel at 21 Jump Street that takes young looking police officers, and places them under cover at troubled high schools. Tom Hansen (aka Johnny) arrives at the program because he has a temper that keeps flaring up whenever his young age is brought up.
The day is saved, but not until Tom kisses a teenage girl, while protecting his identity, is forced to join the school play as a form of detention, and gets his ear pierced ala Janet Jackson in Rhythm Nation (which appears to be a popular style among both sexes).
In the end, 21 Jump Street is not only a fabulous education in early Johnny, but also in what gems late 80s/early 90s television was.
So what did you guys all think about the first episode of 21 Jump Street? Your favorite scene, character, or perhaps, favorite line and/or fashion choice . . . mine has to be Toms transformation from total square, to total leather bad-ass.
For next week, well be watching America, What a Town.