Coach – The Second Season
Picture: C
Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: C
The 1990
– 1991 season of Coach is The Second Season and it has something
very similar to the first season going for it:
it feels almost exactly the same in the poorest way. Maybe that is why the Craig T. Nelson/Jerry
Van Dyke series continued to be a hit for fans, but it is amazing how almost
carbon copy this all is.
We get 20
episodes, or more of the same and all (including Shelley Fabares) make for an
all to safe sports family that is at least proof of a certain apathy going into
the 1990s we did not need. This is for
fans only and if you really need to see this show and somehow have missed it,
start with the first season so you know what you are getting into.
The 1.33 X 1 image is again typical of shows starting in
the 1980s (comedies, dramas, half-hour or hour shows) that were shot on film
and finished on analog NTSC videotape.
This is again such a show, so these copies have serious detail issues
with aliasing and softness throughout that makes no sense for a show “filmed
before a live audience” as we are reminded at the beginning of each
episode. The Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
shows its age but is again passable.
There are no extras.
- Nicholas Sheffo
