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North Shore

  • TV Series
  • 2004–20052004–2005
  • 1h
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Brooke Burns, Nikki Deloach, and Amanda Righetti in North Shore (2004)
  • Drama
  • Romance
Intrigue abounds at the Grand Waimea Hotel, an exclusive Hawaiian escape for the wealthy, powerful and beautiful. Hawaiian-born Jason Matthews runs the hotel as the assistant manager and mak... Read allIntrigue abounds at the Grand Waimea Hotel, an exclusive Hawaiian escape for the wealthy, powerful and beautiful. Hawaiian-born Jason Matthews runs the hotel as the assistant manager and makes sure every guest gets everything they need. But when former flame, Nicole Booth, arrive... Read allIntrigue abounds at the Grand Waimea Hotel, an exclusive Hawaiian escape for the wealthy, powerful and beautiful. Hawaiian-born Jason Matthews runs the hotel as the assistant manager and makes sure every guest gets everything they need. But when former flame, Nicole Booth, arrives as the hotel's new Director of Guest Relations, Jason's world is turned upside down. But... Read all
IMDb RATING
6.7/10
1.1K
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POPULARITY
4,300
270
  • Creator
    • Peter Elkoff
  • Stars
    • Kristoffer Polaha
    • Brooke Burns
    • Corey Sevier
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  • Creator
    • Peter Elkoff
  • Stars
    • Kristoffer Polaha
    • Brooke Burns
    • Corey Sevier
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    • 24User reviews
    • 2Critic reviews
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  • Episodes21

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    Kristoffer Polaha
    Kristoffer Polaha
    • Jason Matthewsas Jason Matthews
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    Brooke Burns
    Brooke Burns
    • Nicole Boothas Nicole Booth
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    Corey Sevier
    Corey Sevier
    • Gabriel McKayas Gabriel McKay
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    Nikki Deloach
    Nikki Deloach
    • Mary Jeanne "M.J." Bevansas Mary Jeanne "M.J." Bevans
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    Jason Momoa
    Jason Momoa
    • Frankie Seauas Frankie Seau
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    Jay Kenneth Johnson
    Jay Kenneth Johnson
    • Chris Remsenas Chris Remsen
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    James Remar
    James Remar
    • Vincent Colvilleas Vincent Colville
    21 episodes21 eps • 2004–2005
    Amanda Righetti
    Amanda Righetti
    • Tessa Lewisas Tessa Lewis
    20 episodes20 eps • 2004–2005
    Shannen Doherty
    Shannen Doherty
    • Alexandra Hudsonas Alexandra Hudson
    11 episodes11 eps • 2004–2005
    Robert Kekaula
    • Samas Sam
    10 episodes10 eps • 2004
    Mark Malalis
    • Kaias Kai
    7 episodes7 eps • 2004–2005
    Christopher McDonald
    Christopher McDonald
    • Walter Boothas Walter Booth
    6 episodes6 eps • 2004
    Marika Dominczyk
    Marika Dominczyk
    • Erikaas Erika
    6 episodes6 eps • 2004
    Dominic Purcell
    Dominic Purcell
    • Tommy Ravettoas Tommy Ravetto
    5 episodes5 eps • 2004–2005
    Josh Hopkins
    Josh Hopkins
    • Morgan Holtas Morgan Holt
    4 episodes4 eps • 2004
    Michael Ontkean
    Michael Ontkean
    • Gordon Matthewsas Gordon Matthews…
    4 episodes4 eps • 2004–2005
    Krista Kalmus
    Krista Kalmus
    • Charlie Fitzas Charlie Fitz…
    4 episodes4 eps • 2004
    Juliet Lighter
    • Pennyas Penny
    4 episodes4 eps • 2004
    • Creator
      • Peter Elkoff
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    Intrigue abounds at the Grand Waimea Hotel, an exclusive Hawaiian escape for the wealthy, powerful and beautiful. Hawaiian-born Jason Matthews runs the hotel as the assistant manager and makes sure every guest gets everything they need. But when former flame, Nicole Booth, arrives as the hotel's new Director of Guest Relations, Jason's world is turned upside down. But the Grand Waimea owner, Vincent Colville, is staying on top of him to make sure his past with Nicole won't affect their work life. Just as interesting as the hotel's wild and crazy clientele is its staff, which is filled with friends, thrill-seekers, con artists, and dreamers in paradise. Waitress M.J. Bevans, Jason's surrogate little sister and roommate, is just waiting for her t-shirt design business to blossom into a fashion empire. Chris Remsen runs an adventure company that caters to Waimea guests. Bartender Frankie Seau keeps those guests well-lubricated while trying to hide a mysterious past. Also included is Gabriel Miller, the young lifeguard trying to carve out a surfing career, and Tessa Lewis, a crafty former con artist/ex-con who's now putting her skills of manipulation and deception to both good and bad use as the hotel's concierge as well as for her own devious agenda to look for any dirt on guests and staff alike for personal gain. Intrigue and excitement await every guest at the Grand Waimea. Just ask the staff. —mandy
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    • Trivia
      When Alexandra Hudson (played by Shannen Doherty) first arrives on the show, she is coming out of her limo and is greeted by a valet. He asks her how she likes Hawaii and she replies, "It beats the hell out of Beverly Hills." This is an obvious reference to her days as Brenda Walsh on the teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210 (1990).
    • Quotes

      Gordy Matthews: So, how you doing kid?

      Jason Matthews: It's a new day. I figure if you've got the guts to paddle out, how bad can it really be?

    • Connections
      Featured in House: Damned If You Do (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Home In Paradise
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      Performed by Unwritten Law

    User reviews24

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    Hawaii 5.0
    I'll almost always have something better to do than watch a prime time soap. But I gave North Shore a shot because I wanted to spot locations. My rationale: if I can't currently be in the islands, in my opinion that only place on Earth where a sane person could want to be, I could maybe catch glimpses of some of the places I've been. Oahu is certainly nice enough but boasts only a few areas that would be sufficiently tropical and frameworthy for filming. Sure enough, I did recognize some of them. However, despite the fact that I'm not remotely in the series' target demographic, I'm still sort of watching.

    Apparently North Shore is a solid go for season one and will probably get the green for a second season. However, I suspect that the show will run out of believable story ideas before season three, if it lives that long, and be forced to start recycling. There are only so many ways to shuffle the show's sun-splashed but limited deck, just a finite number of credible high-end guests to run past the Grand Waimea Hotel's front desk, and a limited number of romantic permutations. The length of time that contrivance can be disguised by complexity is also finite. The recent episode involving the Vice President's spirited daughter already stressed the believability envelope just a tad. (However, it did give Kristoffer Polaha the opportunity to deliver some beautiful Stink Eye to a thuggish Secret Service agent who tried to coerce him into helping cover up the visiting Veep's intimate indiscretions.)

    Although North Shore's characters are somewhat formulaic, they're not entirely without appeal and all handle their chores more than adequately. Kristoffer Polaha's Jason Matthews, the hotel's General Manager, transmits a lot of believable humanity. Jason is respected and liked, qualities that are not often found together in the high-end workplace. The Jason character is very comfortable in his own skin and easy to root for. Brooke Burns, who plays the Grand Waimea's 'Guest Relations' Manager and Jason's former flame, Nicole Booth, has been dinged for her lack of range, but as the emotionally-planed corporate princess, who has been groomed from birth to excel for Daddy, she's just fine in the role. I completely bought her anguish when, in a recent episode she walked in on Jason while he was working it out with Tessa. Nicole had just left her fiancé at the altar to reconnect with Jason. In fact, the sequence made me wince; soapy but so nasty… Corey Sevier's Gabriel Miller, a talented surfer, who longs to turn pro while struggling to outgrow his adolescent goofiness, also works well. Anyone who feels that he or she has a gift but cannot quite find the way to get it across, to make it work, will relate to Gabriel. He's hormonal but still too much of a waterman to forget to tie down a borrowed jet ski, which subsequently rolls off its trailer and lands him in one-finger poi with a local bad boy from whom he borrowed the machine. But it seems that every script contains at least one moment when credibility must go on stand-by. The hotel's concierge from the dark side, Tessa, played with edge by Amanda Righetti, is a girl who could make a guy seriously consider giving up women, perhaps appropriate as Tessa has pretty much given up on men, although she's still up for making a meal of one now and then. It'll be Tessa vs. Nicole in upcoming episodes. I think I know who'll win but the war should be amusing. I've always liked James Remar, who built a career playing borderline personalities. His hotel owner, Vincent Colville, is an interesting against-type play. Colville gives the impression that he already knows everything that will happen and that the Grand Waimea, although dear to his heart, is also just a stepping stone. Still, he's the sort of boss almost anyone would like to have; tough, smart, but always fair.

    The thing is, Hawaii is actually a far more interesting place than the environs of the Grand Waimea, and on several levels. But one has to be willing, and sufficiently patient, to see beneath the obvious surface to get at what I'm talking about. Young local (although not necessarily Hawaiian) men with bad attitudes are certainly a part of island life and have always been, right from Captain Cook on, but there's more. Unfortunately, North Shore, whose target audience will, presumably, begin to nod off just past tan lines, will probably not permit the series to mine the real mana and remain happily fixated on who's screwing whom, literally and figuratively. If you were in the islands on 9/11, as I was, sitting beneath the sheltering trees on 'Anini Beach, you may know what I mean. The islands are another place, out of time, almost not of this earth. Viewing televised coverage of the attack on the Towers from there, it seemed that an act of such stunning and precise brutality was simply impossible; the baddest of bad dreams. Against this essential, ancient, fleeting, and fading quality, even the Grand Waimea, ostensibly a perfect hotel in a perfect place, feels a bit like the Pentagon.
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    • Aug 4, 2004

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    • Release date
      • June 14, 2004 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Хавајски хотел
    • Filming locations
      • Hawaii, USA
    • Production companies
      • 20th Century Fox Television
      • Brancato/Salke
      • Confidential Pictures Inc.
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    • Runtime
      1 hour
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Stereo
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.78 : 1

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