Review of Baywatch

Baywatch (1989–2001)
7/10
It's a decent show to watch...
21 February 2020
Like I said it's decent. DECENT acting, decent plots... I'm rewatching the entire series right now after having not seen it since it aired. Every episode I find something to go what the f about... either reusing the same shot like many shows did back then. Problem with that is when you watch every episode back to back, you REMEMBER every time a director did that and thought we wouldn't' notice. It's like Airwolf if anyone remembers that. Reusing the same island or the same factory (or the same fly-by scene) multiple times, even though it's supposed to be on another CONTINENT (but it's nowhere near as bad in this, in fact I only remember it happening like twice and I'm in season 7). lol... Or another gripe, bad set pieces. Like one episode I just watched today, they go zoomed in on a boulder (the episode with Hulk Hogan and Macho Man) that a kid slips on then gets his foot trapped underneath. When the kid stepped on it, you could see the "boulder" cave in... it's like, did no one see that? There were other horrendous set pieces but i don't remember at the moment. My biggest gripe about this show that really bothers me as an adult, almost every other episode when someone is drowning they're in KNEE DEEP WATER and can just stand the hell up lol... Like one in particular, 3 lifeguards rush in the water to pull the person out, the water wasnt' even up to their knees! The person's splashing around TEN feet from the shore when they can just walk in... Another episode, 3 people are waving for help on a small boat, as soon as the Scarab gets near they fall over of course. Of course no one knows how to swim (in this particular episode or the entire series), let alone dog paddle back to the boat, IN PERFECTLY CALM WATERS. I dove in the ocean in the bahamas once on a high school trip just to get a fishing line unstuck from rocks like 10 feet down. What I'm seeing in this show is just ridiculous. Now if they're getting dragged out by a rip current fine, but most of the time it's not. It's just people going to the beach, get in the water, and suddenly don't know how to swim lol... honestly if it wasnt' for the babes I don't think I would've gotten past the first few seasons.
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