Been watching The Equalizer recently and finding the memories to be somewhat bittersweet. The gritty urban tint to the show's cinematography (well for the 80's anyway, it's not Cassavetes or anything) still comes through but the ridiculousness of an aging British expat cornering drug pushers and dispatching street punks with an arthritic karate chop is hard to swallow with eyes soaked in the violence juice of the last two decades.
Still, the one thing that's still great is the title sequence which to my mind is one of the finest intros to a TV show ever made. It's laced with some wonderful urban images of trains raped by graffiti, darkened alleyways, late night subways, metaphorical scales of justice - often shot from strange angles - accompanied by Stewart Copeland's pounding drums and synths creating a beautiful sense of malevolence before a shadowy character standing in a car's headlights emerges as the 'answer' to all this.
I'd like to place this in a time capsule as a high point of TV art, all 0.59 seconds of it. There would be no note with it, just a VHS of this. But then maybe I need help.
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