The double murder of a woman and her child can be traced back to a shyster lawyer who had no regard for his witnesses. This leads to a twisty turny effort on the part of all forces to put together the puzzle. The second story is about a little girl, the daughter of a down and out musician, who exploits her talents, who gets kidnapped. Finally, a marriage needs to happen and Andy gets the news on cures for ED.
2 Reviews
« rainy wedding, happy wedding » (vhs) (dvd)
leplatypus4 May 2014
Warning: Spoilers
Well, it took 7 years to follow this show on DVD and as usual, the DVD Doom has strike!
Every time, i bought special DVD for a show, you can be sure they won't be perfect ! For a long time, « V » was never released fully in France and as soon I bought the zone 2 edition of the second volume, the full series gets released in a nice packaging. With « Twin Peaks » or « Married with children », it's when I started to buy US edition that the series were released in France ! With « NYPD Blue », DVD stopped at season 4. When UK released all the series last year, i saw the opportunity to discover at least how the show ended ! So, when i got season 5-8 with the Mediumrare edition, i'm hugely disappointed because there are absolutely no subtitles or closed captions ! And for sure, now, American market got those seasons with subtitles !
In all cases,, this 5th season was hard to enter for me. I tried to look for complete scripts on the Web but apparently, no fan and no site have typed them. So, i'm just crushed under the repetitive pattern of the show : one or two crimes investigated, tense or emotional interviews to have the culprit convicted. After 22 episodes quite mute for me, I feel wring out.
However, this show had also two lifelines :
1) the cast : Delaney + Franz + Smits + Thompson + Lawrence was a magic combination. Those people have more talent than a lot of movies stars and they give us wonderful characters as well.
2) The realism : Nowadays, with all the the technological soup and the focus on wealthy, it's hard to find a cop show close to the real life. Here, in NYC, on Manhattan island, you will be surprised to see that poverty, decay jungle is at the door : Crime happen in sordid, old places, they are committed by lost and poor people against lost and poor people. The police is similar as those cops looks terrible (sad gray suits even for women) and their precinct is a ruin !
Only 4 shows got my full interest this season : (5.5) and (5.8) were gripping as they deal with children victims. (5.18) was interesting as though Sipowicz becomes a real drip when being hospitalized. My pick is finally the final (5.22) as it reunites those two plots : child abuse and private life perturbing work life !
Every time, i bought special DVD for a show, you can be sure they won't be perfect ! For a long time, « V » was never released fully in France and as soon I bought the zone 2 edition of the second volume, the full series gets released in a nice packaging. With « Twin Peaks » or « Married with children », it's when I started to buy US edition that the series were released in France ! With « NYPD Blue », DVD stopped at season 4. When UK released all the series last year, i saw the opportunity to discover at least how the show ended ! So, when i got season 5-8 with the Mediumrare edition, i'm hugely disappointed because there are absolutely no subtitles or closed captions ! And for sure, now, American market got those seasons with subtitles !
In all cases,, this 5th season was hard to enter for me. I tried to look for complete scripts on the Web but apparently, no fan and no site have typed them. So, i'm just crushed under the repetitive pattern of the show : one or two crimes investigated, tense or emotional interviews to have the culprit convicted. After 22 episodes quite mute for me, I feel wring out.
However, this show had also two lifelines :
1) the cast : Delaney + Franz + Smits + Thompson + Lawrence was a magic combination. Those people have more talent than a lot of movies stars and they give us wonderful characters as well.
2) The realism : Nowadays, with all the the technological soup and the focus on wealthy, it's hard to find a cop show close to the real life. Here, in NYC, on Manhattan island, you will be surprised to see that poverty, decay jungle is at the door : Crime happen in sordid, old places, they are committed by lost and poor people against lost and poor people. The police is similar as those cops looks terrible (sad gray suits even for women) and their precinct is a ruin !
Only 4 shows got my full interest this season : (5.5) and (5.8) were gripping as they deal with children victims. (5.18) was interesting as though Sipowicz becomes a real drip when being hospitalized. My pick is finally the final (5.22) as it reunites those two plots : child abuse and private life perturbing work life !
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