Homicide - Life on the Street - Season 1 - Complete details
| Format: | 15 DVD |
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| Starring: | Yaphet Kotto, Clark Johnson, John Polito, Melissa Leo, Ned Beatty, Daniel Baldwin, Richard Belzer, Andre Braugher, Kyle Secor, Lee Tergesen |
| Directors: | Barry Levinson, Martin Campbell, Alan Taylor, N |
| Genres: | Drama - Crime, Television - Series/Miniseries |
| Studio: | FREMANTLE HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Homicide - Season 1 - Complete - Disc 1 |
15 Disc 1 | |
Homicide - Season 1 - Complete - Disc 2 |
15 Disc 2 | |
Homicide - Season 1 - Complete - Disc 3 |
15 Disc 3 | |
Homicide - Season 1 - Complete - Disc 4 |
15 Disc 4 |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 10 hours 24 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 26 Feb 2007 |
| Main languages: | English |
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The Best TV Series ever !!!!
By a customer from UK , 17 Apr 2005[Highly rated reviewer]
Simply the finest TV series ever made.
Eschewing the cheap flashiness of NYPD blue and the cold police procedurals of CSI, Homicide instead opts for a far darker and more realistic view of life in the Baltimore City Homicide Department.
Based on the plots & charecters of the superb non-fiction book 'Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets' by David Simon, and utilising the gritty cinematography of Barry Levinson, Homicide focuses on the elite detective of the Homicide unit, and their struggles to turn the red scars of unsolved murder victims that sit under their names on the white board in the middle of the squad room, into the comforting black of a closed case.
Standout Charecters include Kyle Seccour as sensative newcomer Tim Bayliss, Melissa Leo as Kay Howard and Yaphet Kotto as inspiring half black/half Italian shift commander Lt. Al Geodello. In as much as the show has as star, its undoubtedly Andre Braugher.
As Det. Frank Pembleton he is a seeker after the truth. As he himself puts it ' We Speak for the Dead' 'What could we possibly do that matters more than this ?'. In the interrogation room no-one is as good as Frank. Witty, errudite and utterly merciless, Frank simply destroys suspects in the 'Box' of the interregation room, as easily as Braugher destroys any other actor he shares the screen with.
A tour de force that leaves other cop dramas looking like the dull pastiches they are.
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(9)As good as I remembered
By a customer from Scotland , 29 Sep 2010I had fond memories of this show from back in the days of late night channel 4 showings. It was great then and it remains so now. Fantastic characters with depth and humour combined with plots that require old school detective work. A great antedote to the increasingly gruesome and plastic world of CSI. If you have watched The Wire recently this will have a familiar air to it (also set in Baltimore) and I highly recommend giving it a shot.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Brilliant precursor of The Wire
By Electricvic (84 reviews) from London , 13 Dec 2009I loved this when it was on TV in the 1990s, and came back to it on DVD recently having seen and enjoyed The Wire. Worth going back to if you too have been Wired and yearn for a taste of more Baltimore homicide.
The series can seems a bit too heavy on the dialogue and characterisation and a bit light on the action at times. For me HLOTS really got into its stride once the characters (like the peerless Andre Braugher as Pendleton - great to see this actor showing up in House recently) were established, so if you're sampling ther series, maybe start with season 2.
I am sure Baltimore is a great place to live, but in HLOTS, The Wire and The Corner the city's crime-ridden recent past led to the creation of some great American TV.
But, as Harry Lime said in The Third Man, war-torn 14th century Italy spawned the Renaissance, while hundreds of years of brotherly love in Switzerland gave us... the cuckoo clock.- Was this review helpful to you?
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a real 'grower'
By markyl1973 (140 reviews) from Brighton , 28 Jul 2008dont be put off by the pace of the first episode, these characters have real depth and the humour is both poignant and dry. true class- Was this review helpful to you?
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Boring
By TRS80 (95 reviews) from Northwich , 19 Apr 2008I gave up halfway through the pilot episode as there was no structure to the story.Most characters seemed to be rambling on about matters irrelevant to the story line.Give me Hill St Blues any day.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Exceptional
By socratidion (9 reviews) from London , 20 Aug 2007Simply some of the best television I have seen. On paper a bit like Hill Street Blues – more about character and the day-to-day lives of the policemen, less about clever solutions to crimes – but this is bleaker, the humour darker. And yes, Andre Braugher is a magnificent actor with a great part, but for me it’s the ensemble that carries it. Over the course of the series we learn to love and be exasperated by the virtues, flaws and follies of each of them, we are treated to their petty rants and oddball philosophizing, their bickering and their cameraderie, watch them in the grip of passion, despair, ennui. It’s low-key, subtle, unflashy – the visual design of the thing makes it almost look like it was filmed in black-and-white (everyone wears grey suits, the walls and floor and desks of the department are painted grey, and the colour all seems to be bleached out) – and has about the worst theme music I have heard, but I guess it’s all of a piece with the overall concept: a sparse and grainy ground out of which spring blooms of humanity. An extraordinary, unmissable achievement.- Was this review helpful to you?
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