“Magnum”: flamboyant farewells

Certes, Two Cops in Miami. But, apart from it, what other American series than Magnum can boast of having embodied with such panache the quintessence of the 1980s? Co-created by Donald P. Bellisario and Glen A. Larson, Magnum PI (its original title, for private investigator – private detective) was born and died with the Reagan decade. Produced by the television branch of the Universal studio for the CBS channel, it began on December 11, 1980 and ended definitively on the 1^is May 1988. And its existence, almost synchronous with the two mandates of the Republican president, has forever inscribed it in the memories as the emblem of a carefree America of the eighties, lover of beautiful cars, flowered shirts and pretty dolls .

But, under the chrome of the red Ferrari, the entertainment and the heavenly setting of the adventures of the famous private man from Hawaii beats a monumental heart to which we will have to pay tribute one day or another. Because not content with being infinitely richer than the certainly benevolent (and relevant) memories of the general public suggest, Magnum has also succeeded in its long-term evolution. And better yet: she did not miss her farewells, in a fabulous final episode where the destinies of the hero and his friends – the butler Higgins, the helicopter pilot Terry and the boss of the King Kamehameha club, Rick – were completed masterfully by the writers after eight seasons. Extremely rare quality on TV.

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