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Today, at long last and at a particularly poignant time in Bruce Willis’s personal history, the entire 67-episode run of Moonlighting —fully remastered — lands on Hulu for your nostalgic viewing pleasure. After so many decades collecting imaginary dust in the theoretical Disney vault1, where it likely played Go Fish with all the animated movies awaiting their brief furloughs and considered a torrid affair with Beauty and the Beast, Moonlighting finally gets its day in the sun — but the hype around finally getting to revisit it has grown enough that there’s always the chance that the thrill will be gone. About a decade ago, I bought Kevin the DVDs of seasons 1-3 for Christmas, so I decided to revisit a slew of random episodes this weekend to gauge whether Moonlighting does in fact hold up, or whether it’ll let us down.
Moonlighting premiered in 1985 as a two-hour pilot — so that they could call it a TV movie if it bombed — and starred Cybill Shepherd as former model Maddie Hayes, whose …