Major
Crimes: The Complete Third Season
(2014 - 2015/Warner DVDs)/NTSF:SD:SUV::
Season One (2011/Adult
Swim/Warner Archive DVD)/Survivor's
Remorse: The Complete First Season
(2014/Anchor Bay/Starz DVDs)
Picture:
C/C+/C+ Sound: C+/C+/B- Extras: C-/D/C Episodes: C
PLEASE
NOTE:
The NTSF
series DVD is now only available from Warner Bros. through their
Warner Archive series and can be ordered from the link below.
Here's
are some new TV shows that have some good ideas, but don't know where
to go with them...
Major
Crimes: The Complete Third Season
(2014 - 2015) is a moderate-at-best police procedural that is doing
just enough to stay on cable TV's TNT Network, but is a show with a
slight comical twist on the genre that I did not find that amusing.
Mary McDonnell and Tom Berenger lead the cast, but they are not shows
off at their best and 18 shows are not that effective. Maybe this
worked better when it began, but its flat here and the genre is so
beyond played out, what else can they do? Where can they go? For
fans only, if that.
Deleted
Scenes and a Gag Reel are the only extras.
NTSF:SD:SUV::
Season One
(2011) spoofs such shows, especially their serious variants, but this
is made for Adult Swim, lasts only a half-hour a show an knows it is
a two-joke show. Still, this might have been mildly better a few
years ago. Still, it has some energy, though its sense of humor is
so close to Major
Crimes
that that in itself shows that this series does not go far enough. I
do like how the title mocks the alphabet soup of all such shows stuck
on their initials, all sequels and spin-offs included.
There
are no extras.
Survivor's
Remorse: The Complete First Season
(2014) wants to tell the story of the rise of a young, suddenly rich
and successful basketball player Cam (Jesse T. Usher) and how he
handles the situations that come his way, good and bad.
Unfortunately, bells and whistles tend to overshadow ugly things
outside of a soap opera context (though a moment where a father
starts to beat his son because Cam's mother (in possible myth-speak)
says she did the same starts something it cannot finish) giving us
everything we've seen to death... all played out.
Lebron
James co-produced this one and you'd think we'd get more. We
don't...
A
Meet The Cast piece is the only extra.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image in all three releases are a
bit soft, but Crimes
manages to be just than much softer and harder to watch. The sound
on all three is also the same, lossy Dolby Digital 5.1, but Remorse
tends to have the edge on sonics at least with more consistent
surround activity and is slightly better recorded.
To
order the
NTSF
DVD, go to this link for it and many more great web-exclusive
releases at:
https://www.warnerarchive.com/
-
Nicholas Sheffo