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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


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