ORBzine TV Review: "Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle" May 2001
The 1980s movie starred the babelicious Bond girl Tanya Roberts. This post- Xena: Warrior Princess TV series stars the babelicious Geena Lee Nolan . Her previous role in Baywatch should be fair warning of what to expect: this show is an excuse for her to run about the jungle in a skimpy outfit. It's Baywatch with trees - but on the bright side, it's better than Baywatch Nights. Faint praise indeed.
Season 1 (2000-2001)
Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle [Season 1, Episode 1]
Sheena
(Originally Aired 10/2/2000)
Sheena is a 36c-cup blonde who speaks excellent English. She lives in the jungle and is friends with the animals - and can shape-shift into their forms. Hey, at least the CGI's good ...
This episode introduces Sheena to her not-love-interest, a hairy-chested pilot with whom she has absolutely no sexual chemistry at all. There are also some bad guys who hire the pilot to fly them into the jungle, then double-cross him so they can keep the hidden treasure to themselves. Or something like that. The characters are so two-dimensional and the plot so pathetic it's difficult to keep track of small details like ... where was I?
Sheena gets a hand-to-hand combat scene against multiple opponents. Like everything else in the episode, it's ludicrous and unconvincing.
Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle [Season 1, Episode 2]
Fallout
(Originally Aired 10/9/2000)
A spy satellite falls to earth in Sheena's jungle, and the CIA and KGB both send their best men to retrieve it. Her not-BF, the pilot guy, has history with both of them.
Sheena mentions that she speaks very good English because she read lots of thriller novels by the likes of Tom Clancy and Alastair MacLean. It would have helped if she'd read MacLean's Ice Station Zebra, because that's what the writers stole the plot of this episode from.
Of Mice And Men (Originally Aired 10/16/2000)
Rites Of Passage (Originally Aired 10/23/2000)
Tourist Trap (Originally Aired 10/30/2000)
Buried Secrets (Originally Aired 11/6/2000)
Lost Boys (Originally Aired 11/13/2000)
Wild Thing (Originally Aired 11/20/2000)
Doing As The Romans (Originally Aired 1/8/2001)
Children Of The Lamista (Originally Aired 1/15/2001)
Prey (Originally Aired 1/22/2001)
Divas Of The Jungle (Originally Aired 1/29/2001)
Forbidden Fruit (Originally Aired 2/5/2001)
The Fool Monty (Originally Aired 2/12/2001)
Sanctuary (Originally Aired 2/19/2001)
Jewel (Originally Aired 4/9/2001)
Friendly Fire (Originally Aired 4/16/2001)
Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle [Season 1, Episode 18]
Between A Rock And A Hard Place
(Originally Aired 4/23/2001)
4 tribes war over over a megalith named the Masegma.
Unsafe Passage (Originally Aired 5/7/2001)
Marabunta (Originally Aired 5/14/2001)
Cult Of One (Originally Aired 5/21/2001)
Season 2 (2001-2002)
23. 2- 1 212 6 Oct 01 Rendezvous 24. 2- 2 202 13 Oct 01 The Feral King 25. 2- 3 205 20 Oct 01 Mind Games 26. 2- 4 210 27 Oct 01 Collateral Damage 27. 2- 5 206 3 Nov 01 Meltdown in Maltaka
Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle [Season 2, Episode 6]
The Treasure of Sienna Mende
(Originally Aired 10 Nov 01)
Alexandra Tydings [Aphrodite in Hercules, Xena ] steals a crystal skull. Mira Furlan is the villain.
Sheena shapeshifts into a lemur!
Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle [Season 2, Episode 7]
The Darkness
(Originally Aired 17 Nov 01)
Sheena dates Cutter. Her topless stuntwoman fights a tiger.
Just like last episode, the villain is a former Babylon 5 Actress. This time it's Patricia Tallman [Lyta Alexander].
Sheena: Queen Of The Jungle [Season 2, Episode 8]
Still Hostage After All These Years
(Originally Aired 24 Nov 01)
A plane with medicine is hijacked.
Cutter's ex-GF [ Yvette Nipar ] is the CIA negotiator.
31. 2- 9 209 26 Jan 02 Return of the Native 32. 2-10 201 2 Feb 02 The Maltaka Files 33. 2-11 204 9 Feb 02 Stranded in the Jungle 34. 2-12 211 16 Feb 02 Coming to Africa 35. 2-13 208 23 Feb 02 The World According to Mendelsohn
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