Returning to the comedy that Maddie, a smart model, who suffers from bankruptcy, who makes her mind to partner David, a smart detective, as together, they solve mysterious cases that take place in the country. In this new season, Maddie works hard to overcome her sorrow.
Moonlighting is and was stunningly modern, hilarious and energetic in a still breathtaking way, meta before meta was standard, a social media series before there was social media.
They were the Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant of their time, a pairing made all the more delicious by rumours that they fought off-set as well as on it.
While the series had plenty of behind-the-scenes strife... it consistently entertained, pioneered the dramedy genre that is so popular today, and regularly broke the fourth wall in innovative ways.
Besides the whirlwind of great one-liners, there are the superb running jokes, from the eternally unsolved Anselmo case to ditzy receptionist Agnes answering the phone in rhyming couplets.
The other 12 episodes don't all measure up, but examples of dazzling creativity abound straight through to the head-spinningly metafictional grand finale (featuring Dr. Timothy Leary as himself).
