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Anyway, Let Me Hear the Music brings back the memories of country (and western) music and the genre that arises from that. Dennis Weaver guest stars in this episode, and he does. This is probably one of the last roles that Susan Oliver played, as she prematurely died in 1990.

I must admit I haven't bothered to watch the Magnum, P. I. reboot, as it doesn't appeal to me. Like really, who can recreate the 80s in the way Magnum, P. I. does, like really.

It's interesting seeing Hawaii and country and western meet - kind of west meet west in a way.

Let Me Hear the Music is worth watching for sure.

I don't like this episode anywhere near as much as the previous obviously have because I didn't like any of the principal guest characters. To be more precise, I didn't like three of them and the fourth one's behaviour was too exaggerated to be believable.

So, first we have the famous George, around whom everything revolves. He was an alcoholic who took all the credit for his best friend's songwriting, then died because he decided to pilot a plane (I'll repeat that - pilot a plane!) while staggering drunk.

Then there's Laurie. She strung George along all those years ago by letting him believe they could be together, not telling him that she'd gotten married. In the present day, she denies even having known him.

Next is Laurie's husband, Desmond. He backs up his wife's lies. Then he leaves her alone to go to the office when he knows that she, already in a fragile state, is in a particularly way at the moment. When he discovers she's committed suicide, he tries to cover it up as murder.

Last, and worst, is the main guest character - Lacy. His devotion to George knows no absolutely no logical bounds. He was willing not only to let him pilot a plane drunk (a plane!!) but also to get on it. Now, he has the nerve to blame an ex-bandmate for George's death because he quit and so didn't do the flying. He's spent the last 30 years getting into fights with anyone who disrespected George. He's even guarded Laurie's last letter to George as if it were the Holy Grail, not opening it, destroying it or trying to return it. His great ambition is to open a George Jessup museum. And even by the end of the episode, he can't bring himself to "confess" to being the actual songwriter of the group. It's too much. Far too much. If the writers were trying to portray true friendship, they went too far and instead depicted a pathological obsession which, were it in real life, would hopefully have seen Lacy receiving psychiatric treatment long ago.