Recent TV DVD Reviews

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Friday, November 6 2009

Adult Swim in a Box

By W. Scott Poole

This is a compilation for that large demographic that yearns for narratives about a large, talking milk shake ordering a wife from Chechnya, or the micronauts going on a breast-climbing expedition. You know who you are.

Wednesday, November 4 2009

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

By Evan Sawdey

Another one of Davies' overwrought space melodramas winds up imploding on itself, but the DVD special feature is a treat worth savoring.

Girlfriends: The Seventh Season

By Valerie C. Gilbert

Like Sex and the City, to which it is often compared, Girlfriends is more product and champion of a pro-sex "postfeminist" culture than it is a relic of the past.

Tuesday, November 3 2009

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

By Evan Sawdey

Heavily based on The Manchurian Candidate, the political intrigue here makes this one of the best Doctor Who adventures ever filmed -- no, really.

Monday, November 2 2009

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

By Evan Sawdey

It's not that this particular story was bad -- we've just been lead to expect much, much better from this sci-fi warhorse.

Sunday, November 1 2009

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

By Evan Sawdey

Psychic grandmas, the theory of evolution, and a gun-weilding Tom Baker makes for one of the most tension-filled Doctor Who outings of the "classic" era.

Wednesday, October 28 2009

Callan: Set 1

By Thomas Britt

In Callan, the audience occupies a place of privilege, having access to this secret intelligence service, the high-risk information it manages, and the thrilling jobs it must carry out for the government.

Monday, October 26 2009

Lie to Me

By Rachel Kipp

That this is not another procedural show is in large part due to actor Tim Roth, who injects life and mystery into a part that on paper reads like a watered down version of Dr. Gregory House.

Friday, October 23 2009

The National Parks: America’s Best Idea

By Stuart Henderson

Like an exquisitely rendered paint-by-numbers, Ken Burns' National Parks has been designed for passive appreciation: it is gorgeous, but empty.

Wednesday, October 21 2009

Gigantor - The Collection, Volume 2 (1964 - 68)

By Bill Gibron

Unlike Disney who sweated every detail, the Asian aesthetic was one of punch and power. Getting to the meat of a situation was far more important than languishing over a beautifully painted backdrop.

Monday, October 19 2009

Tales From the Darkside Season 2

By W. Scott Poole

George Romero's second anthology horror series gives us a creepy opening montage, social commentary... and George Costanza's dad!

Thursday, October 15 2009

Foyle’s War: Sets 1-5 - From Dunkirk to V-E Day

By Stuart Henderson

One feels compelled to keep up, to try to untangle the right strands, to disregard the red herrings, to remark on the occasional Chekovian gun. It’s utterly thrilling to be treated like an adult.

Wednesday, October 14 2009

The Guild: Seasons 1 & 2

By Dan Heaton

Only a keen understanding of the gaming culture could generate such a dedicated, enthusiastic audience.

Tuesday, October 13 2009

Wuthering Heights

By Adele Melander-Dayton

Moody, dark Yorkshire moors and overwrought hysterical performances are delivered in this adaptation of Emily Bronte's beloved classic.

Heroes: Season 3

By Christel Loar

With its embarrassment of riches in the extras department, and its episodes' more unified storytelling, the Heroes: Season 3 DVD set is well worth watching, no matter how you may have felt about previous seasons.

Friday, October 9 2009

The Hills: Season Five

By Alistair Dickinson

At the end of the day it's all about the bodies, the cars and the clothes, as well as the incredible things that occasionally come out of the cast-members' mouths.

Thursday, October 8 2009

Murphy’s Law: Series One

By J.M. Suarez

Murphy’s Law stands as a somewhat average crime drama, while its greatest strength lies in its casting of James Nesbitt and Claudia Harrison.

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