User Reviews

I write in strong opposition to the reviews posted by "knuckle47" and "bote." Granted, this episode is very different from most of them, but far from being weak and failing, I found it to be a lovely, touching story revolving around the Grover family. I loved Louis Gossett and Gladys Knight as the grandparents, and the final resolution of the differences between Lou Grover and his brother was very sweet.

I'm not american and Thanksgiving episodes tend to annoy me but this one! Oh awful. I love Grover character but here, way too much. His plot with his brother (not even introduced before) was so bad, so long, so forced and so pathetic. I was completely out of this episode and so bored that I watch it in 2x speed. The thief plot was weak and the moral at the end, urgh! it feels like it's OK to steal rich people to feed for one meal poor people no matter that a poor guy died under the safe. Who knows maybe he was still alive when the great thief drill the safe and didn't call 911... I'm a bit excessive but for me, one a the worst episode of the show.

Jack Lord and James McArthur would charge around Hawaii catching the bad guys in a fairly entertaining manner. Now look...

We start off with everybody playing football for reasons that are never explained. The crime involves someone getting crushed under a safe, which soon gets forgotten. The villain isn't really a bad guy, he just wants to help lonely people at Thanksgiving. We never find out what happens to him. Most of the story is given over to Lou's problems with his brother. Why does anyone think I care? If I wanted to watch family arguments and fighting I'd watch a soap opera (or my own home movies)They wasted huge amounts of time fighting over cooking a turkey. Really? Why can't I have an action cop show back. At least fast forwarding through the Grover family tedium let me finish early.

I just hope this is the last series because it's becoming pathetic now.

Five-O has been flirting with "Jumping The Shark" since Lou Grover joined the Team. Joining after being fired from the HPD SWAT Team makes no sense. When Five-O episodes have focused on Grover they have ALL BEEN STINKERS. The Grover's BEST FRIEND IN THE WORLD SAGA was as pathetic as CBS gets. The same Network that was too cheap to sign Linda from Blue Bloods, Kono and Chin Ho from the very same Hawaii Five-O. Lou's buddy kills off his wife while vacationing in Hawaii. How convenient for Lou. Grover's quest to prove his buddy's guilt was beyond terrible. The ENTIRE CHICAGO POLICE episode series as follow ups? HORRIBLE! Maybe the worst besides last nights Thanksgiving to forget, would be sledge hanmer yielding Lou destroying his friends apartment while holding the cheating girlfriend hostage. The Steve and Dano restaurant shenanigans was enough for cancellation. But Lou? Over Catherine Rollins? Uhh.. did CBS REALLY PICK THE BIG GUY OVER THE TALENTED Michelle Borth? Not much to say POSITIVE about the "get me my Maalox" Thanksgiving from the Cheesy Hall Of Fame. It's real bad! A waste of 60 minutes if you watched it live, 43 minutes on the DVR. I saw it live Eastern Time. I had no warnings but had a hunch when Grover took over it was doomed. Watch any episode that Grover doesn't star in. It'll be at least twice as good as this. Stick with the First Four Seasons on DVD/BluRay/Netflix. Then read the IMDB ratings beyond that. Don't binge on leftovers!

The episode before this one with the flashback to 1941 was bad, but this one is really bad. Abt 5 min footage and story on a crime and the rest on a soap story, as I said before the scriptwriters must be running out of stories. Why not make only 15 episodes that are good, but 25 that are average to bad. Must be their last season if this goes on.