One of my favorite TV shows of all time is coming to Hulu this week. October 10th will see the arrival of ABC’s Moonlighting on the streaming service and I plan on adding Moonlighting to the list of shows that I am doing a rewatch for.

However, I decided that I would kick things off tonight by doing a review of the pilot episode of Moonlighting, which was a TV movie which went for an hour and a half and gave us the story of how Dave and Maddie came to be together.

Maddie Hayes (Cybill Shepherd) awoke one day to find that all of her money and assets had been stolen from her. She did have a few businesses that were in place as tax write-offs so she was preparing to close these all down.

When she came to the detective agency that she owned, she met David Addison (Bruce Willis) and the chemistry was off the charts. He was annoying and would not accept being fired. He recognized Maddie as the Blue Moon Girl and he could see how her name and reputation could help the agency.

Maddie was not interested, but David would not give up, following her to a date she was having at a restaurant. Before they knew it, a man with a mohawk hairstyle gave Maddie a mysterious wristwatch and fell dead at her feet with a knife in his back.

With David’s manipulations, the pair found themselves involved in the case, trying to determine why this watch was worth killing for.

David and Maddie were absolutely gold together. The chemistry, the banter, the talking at the same time, it all just worked beautifully. Both had a ton of charm and they were clearly taken with one another. Yet, they were so different that the conflict between them was just palpable and drove so much story.

David was such a BS artist, but you could see that beneath it all was a heart of gold. Maddie was cold and withdrawn, but beneath that was a warm and passionate person. They made an amazing pairing and you could see how this was going to become the phenomenon that it did.

The case was good, which was not always the way with Moonlighting storylines. Many times the story was just an excuse to put Dave and Maddie into certain situations. This one had some good twists and actually highlighted some of the skills Dave and Maddie had.

There is so much good about this pilot that you can tell how it is moving forward. Moonlighting depends on Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis and they carry that charisma a long way.