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Rome - The Complete First Season

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Total reviews: 339 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A thrilling season 5 out of 5 stars.
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Love it!
Fights, plots, characters, everything in this show is very well put to set in flames the story of Rome.

Rome I 5 out of 5 stars.
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Again both Seasons are worth watching for those who are interested in ancient history. The story line is fluid.

Editorial Review:

(HBO Dramatic Series) Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people; epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, two soldiers, Lucius Vorenus and Titus Pullo unwittingly become entwined in the historical events of ancient Rome. A serialized drama of love and betrayal, masters and slaves, husbands and wives, ROME chronicles a turbulent era that saw the death of the republic and the birth of an empire.

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Six Feet Under: The Complete First Season

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Total reviews: 186 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

CLOSED CAPTION GLITCH - NEED RESPONSE 3 out of 5 stars.
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We purchased the entire series package and find that on Season I, the closed captioning is ONLY in Spanish. The packaging lists that it is only in Spanish. All other seasons list English, French, Spanish. Is this true of ALL Season I disks? It's Sunday, and I can't get any resolution from the store where they were purchased. Would rate it FIVE Star rather than three if it didn't have this problem!

Editorial Review:

From Alan Ball, the Oscar(r) winning writer of "American Beauty", comes a series that digs where others fear to tread. When a bus kills Nathaniel Fisher, owner of the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home in Los Angeles, the tragedy casts a pall on the homecoming of his prodigal son Nate. Together with with mother Ruth, brother David and sister Claire, they must address the family business, and the many more personal matters that arise when your life is Six Feet Under.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Biographies
Deleted Scenes
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Featurette
Interviews

Carnivale - The Complete Second Season

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Total reviews: 93 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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(HBO Dramatic Series) As the final war between Good and Evil looms two powerful avatars divided by fate share one mission. For Ben Hawkins and Brother Justin, the race is on to find the elusive Henry Scudder--and the fate of the world depends on who finds him first.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:3 Audio Commentaries with Creator Daniel Knauf, Executive Producer Howard Klein, Director Rodrigo Garcia and cast members Clancy Brown and Clea Duvall.
Documentary:"Magic and Myth: The Meaning of Carnivale"--half-hour documentary exploring the apocalyptic writing and mythology behind the show. Interviews with the creator, executive producer, and writers and directors of the show to get their take on the mythology, as well as independent contributors who have examined the show?s characters and the archetypal roles they represent.
Featurette:"Creating the Scene" Featurettes--Find out how Carnivale's creators brought the Daily Brothers show -- and its Scorpion Lady, He/She and Praying Mantis-to vibrant life!
Other:Museum of Television and Radio panel discussion with cast and crew

The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season

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Total reviews: 126 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

"Life" isn't fair...it's "life"... 5 out of 5 stars.
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Just finished the set...3 days. I find irony in the fact that one of the most beautiful things ever created was born of ugliness. If aliens were to come down to Earth, curious about what it meant to be human, I would show them "The Wire". I don't feel much hope, day to day. It's tough to be positive. Erosion. Winners and losers. You can't win in this life without being a little evil it seems. No good deed and all of that...just watch the show. It's a gift in a world that eats corporate s^%t and begs for more. Embrace the truth, do what you can...subtract from the evil, don't add. All you can do...maybe you'll make it...

..but probably not.

Editorial Review:

With the fall of Barksdale and the ascent of young Marlo Stanfield as West Baltimore's drug king, the detail continues to "follow the money" up the political ladder in the midst of a mayoral election that pits the black incumbent, Clarence Royce, against an ambitious white councilman, Tommy Carcetti. The theme of urban education is explored through four new characters â€" Michael Lee, Namond Brice, Randy Wagstaff and "Dukie" Weems as they traverse adolescence in the stunted, drug-saturated streets of West Baltimore. The world that awaits these boys and the American commitment to equal opportunity are depicted brilliantly in the edgy, all too realistic Season 4 of The Wire.

Six Feet Under - The Complete Fifth Season

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Total reviews: 99 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The Best Ending to a Series Ever! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I don't think I'll ever forget the ending of Six Feet Under, and what led up to it. While some of the other storylines fade in your head, the ending is just fantastic, incredible. The fates of the Fishers...it's sad to see them go. I think they are the most original family on TV. The most REAL. I think that's what kept everyone watching all these seasons.

Six Feet Under was a terrific show. Maybe my all-time favorite, at least in my top 5. It kept me up at night, just to watch one more episode to see what was going to happen. I was addicted, each episode was fascenating to me. I'm sad to see it go, but glad that I can add my praise to the many, in hopes that maybe a viewer who hasn't seen the show yet will read this measley review and give the show a shot. You won't regret it!

Editorial Review:

One of TV's most acclaimed drama series, the Emmy- and Golden Globe-winning Six Feet Under, concludes its groundbreaking, five season run. Each of the main characters will come to embrace the cycle of life - birth, death, and re-birth - in ways that are both unique and interconnected. Everything. Everyone. Everywhere. Ends.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Featurette
Audio Commentary:Six audio commentaries with the cast, crew, and creator
Featurette:Six Feet Under: 2001-2005, two 30-minute retrospectives Life and Loss: The Impact of Six Feet Under, a featurette

Carnivale - The Complete First Season

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Total reviews: 153 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

One of the best yet lesser known shows to ever be on TV. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a big fan of many of the HBO TV series that have come out in the past including Soprano's, The Wire, Entourage, Deadwood, etc. and I beleive this is definatly one of the best. It's full of suspense has an incredible story and keeps you watching for hours on end. More than worth the money for anyone who loves HBO.

Editorial Review:

1934. The Dustbowl. The last great age of magic. In a time of titanic sandstorms, vile plagues, drought and pistilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. The battle will take place in the Heartland of an empire called America. And when it is over, man will forever trade away wonder for reason. See the conflict of good vs. evil played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit, and an evangelical ministry in California.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:3 Audio Commentaries with Creator Daniel Knauf, Executive Producer Howard Klein and Directors Rodrigo Garcia and Jeremy Podeswa
Featurette:"Making of Carnivale" Featurette detailing how set and costume designers collaborated to achieve the look of the Dustbowl in the 1930s

Six Feet Under - The Complete Second Season

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Total reviews: 120 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Six Feet Under Second season 5 out of 5 stars.
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Six Feet Under is not for teens or young children. It's full of adult content. It might not be for anyone who wouldn't want to watch show with gay couple in it or hear all the cussing. But I find this series to be very well done and story lines so true to life. I have enjoyed the whole series from start to finish. I'll watch it again too.

The Most Original Series Out There 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you're looking for something original and unique, you've found out. Six Feet Under is unlike any other TV show I've ever seen. It's fascenating and I'm hooked!!

Season 1 was a little slow for me, but I am so glad that I stuck it out. In this season we come to know the characters better, the stories get a bit more interesting and it becomes apparent that death happens in many ways and there's always an interesting story behind it and behind the person.

Run, don't walk to the video store or where ever you have to go to get this series. It's amazing!

Editorial Review:

When death is your business, what is your life? For Nate, David, Ruth and Claire, the world outside the Fisher & Sons Funeral Home continues to be at least as challenging-and far less predictable-as the one inside.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentaries with Alan Ball, writers and directors on Episodes 1,7,10,12,13
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps:Season 1 Recap
Featurette

The Sopranos: The Complete Second Season

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Total reviews: 119 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Very pleased 5 out of 5 stars.
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Editorial Review:

For Tony Soprano, there's no such thing as business as usual. Balancing the demands of his immediate family - wife Carmel, daughter Meadow and son Anthony Jr. - witht the demands of his other family - Paulie Walnuts, Silvio Dante and Big Pussy Bompensiero - means walking a tightrope no self-respecting mobster should have to walk. With his mother and uncle plotting against him, his older sister Janice wreaking her own special kind of havoc, and the very real threat that one of his closest allies is wired by the F.B.I, Tony needs the support of his psychiatrist Dr. Melfi more than ever.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Biographies
Featurette
Filmographies
Other
Scene Access
TV Spot

Six Feet Under - The Complete Fourth Season

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Total reviews: 60 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Great Season of the Show! 5 out of 5 stars.
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This looks even better with some distance than it did back when it was first shown. Was a wonderful show to begin with, even more special later. Rather than just a with a difference, this season offers up some rough emotions and great drama. A murder mystery and a horrible crime happen in raw old fashioned form. They have great payoffs for a usually quiet show and it doesn't detract from it all all. Death happens in all types of ways or then it doesn't happen. Make sure you watch this season.

Editorial Review:

There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one. Death and dysfunction are par for the course in The Complete Fourth Season of Six Feet Under.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:7 Audio commentaries w/ Alan Ball, writers and directors on episodes 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11, 12
Episodic Previews:Episodic Previews and Recaps, Season 1-3 Recap
Featurette:Cut By Cut: Editing Six Feet Under--a featurette on how an episode is put together in the editing room

Pumping Iron (25th Anniversary Special Edition)

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Total reviews: 186 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

An early peek at The Ahh-nold, Pre-Governator Model 4 out of 5 stars.
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Long before "Eye vant to pump you up..." became a Hans and Franz Saturday Night Live catchphrase, before the pump was a feature of Reebok running shoes, there was Arnold Schwarzenegger's orgiastic tribute to the sensation of muscular blood-engorgement.

"Pumping Iron" is a late 1970's documentary of bodybuilding subculture and the competitive hothouse leading up to the Mr. Olympia Competition of 1975. Its macro focus is hijacked somewhat by the larger than life muscles and personality of Arnold Schwarzenegger.

At this level, all of the bodybuilders have incredible physiques and are skilled at posing. Arnold has a command of the stage, though, a charisma, a sense of ease bordering on arrogance. His incandescent personality reads the people and situations around him and sets him apart. It perhaps lays the foundation for his career in acting and his eventual and improbable career into politics.

As a period piece, "Pumping Iron" will transport you back to the ridiculous hairstyles and clothing fashions of the 1970's. As a bodybuilding documentary, it is absorbing. As an early bio on the Ah-nold in the early stages of his career, it foreshadows the larger stages on which the Governator spread his muscular wings.

Editorial Review:

In 1977, an independent documentary movie shone a light on the world of bodybuilding, becoming a huge box office hit and creating an international sensation. It launched one man's multi-million dollar career and changed the world of bodybuilding and physical exercise forever: PUMPING IRON. Starring five-time Mr. Olympia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, the movie followed the 28-year old bodybuilder as he competed for his 6th title.

DVD Features:
Biographies
Documentary
Interviews
Outtakes
Photo gallery