I remember liking this okay on first run, sitting around with straight and gay friends who variously lusted after one young cop or the other. Watching the first season recently, I was rather horrified that I had ever liked it and am trying to convince myself I only liked the socialization of watching it. I'm sure some have nostalgic feelings for it, but really, it's a bad, bad cop show. These are not cops, the dialog is laughable, the actors have a hard time convincing me they thought it was any better than I think it is, and the hairstyles and clothes that must have looked hip back then look quite silly today (as most "hip" fashion does a generation later). Oh sure, young Johnny Depp is pretty in that androgynous way that teen girls find appealing, but mostly it's typical crappy TV fare.
Review of 21 Jump Street
