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IndieWire's critic Tambay Obenson on CBS's Queen Latifah-rific reboot of the '80s TV show
The Equalizer. In his world, we are supposed to judge TV shows for the quality writing and acting and stuff like that ('...this “Equalizer” feels thoroughly unoriginal'). He must believe that something like art is really to be found in, of all places, television programs. But a show like
The Equalizer must be judged not as a work of art but as a vivid dream. You do not wake up and say: "That dream had great performances, direction, writing, and such." No. You wake up say: "That was curious." And such is the case with Queen Latifah's
The Pointer Sisters performing in New York City in 1983, the year the group released its album em Break Out /em , which included four top 10 hits.
If you spun the dial of your AM/FM radio on any given day in the early 1980s, chances are you heard a Pointer Sisters' record. The group was in heavy rotation in a variety of formats whose playlists included Duran Duran, Bruce Springsteen and the Human League or Patti LaBelle and Earth, Wind and Fire. The electro-pop sound of the Pointer Sisters' "Jump (For My Love)," "Automatic" or "Neutron Dance" dominated the charts during the first half of the decade. The popularity of these records rested in the accessibility of their lyrical content and melodic structure and the hypnotic nature of their rhythms. Anyone could sing "Jump for My Love" after hearing the chorus once; after "Neutron Dance" was featured prominently in Eddie Murphy's breakout film