Sad as we enter Buz's last season, and he's as dramatic as ever, maybe more than ever if you don't count the time he helped Robert Duvall come down off heroin...
This episode in Huntington Beach, California showcases another young actor who'd become a legend, Harrison Ford, who turns up at a party scene to protect the king surfer who doesn't care that a younger surfer died trying to surf through the pier to beat his record (same thing happened in the same years' SURF PARTY)...
It's a rather thin premise, and unrealistic as Buz has ten days to not only learn how to surf, but to beat a championship surfer... Also, while this is a good show, there's too many overlong scenes of Actor's Workshop dialogue that goes on forever, and that frankly is both melodramatic and pretentious and hardly moves the plot forward... Here it's a bunch of monologues about life and death...
This quick lesson of becoming a pro surfer in a week might be a bigger stretch than the mermaid episode after dullard Glenn Corbett replaced Maharis...
Why, oh why do some people leave things they're great at and that makes those things better than without them? Why George? Why McClean Stevensn? Why Mick Taylor? Why Jackie Martling? Why.... the list goes on an on... talented people should just stay put and, to use a surfing term, ride it out.