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This ’80s action reboot does what few TV shows have before – Sydney Morning Herald
Queen Latifah brushes up on her combat skills for a new version of The Equalizer. It shouldn’t seem so audacious an idea.
There is something peculiarly 1980s about the original series of The Equalizer, Michael Sloan and Richard Lindheims action drama about a former covert operations officer named Robert McCall, who hoped to atone for his past misdeeds by making himself available to people in need as a problem-solving freelancer. He even ran his business off a newspaper classified ad: Got a problem? Odds against you? Call the Equalizer.
When producers Andrew Marlowe and Terri Miller sat down to recreate it for a modern…
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