The Closer – The Complete Fourth Season (Warner DVD)

 

Picture: B-     Sound: B-     Extras: C     Episodes: B-

 

 

I have not been happy with most current network TV, but what to you expect in a sea of reality TV?  However, the Kyra Sedgwick hit The Closer and it is a show we have paid more attention to than most as these links will bear out:

 

Season Two

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/5643/The+Closer+–+The+Complete+Second

 

Season Three

http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7224/The+Closer+–+The+Complete+Third

 

 

To my surprise, the show has remained smart, taken its audience seriously, not sold its cast or viewers down the river and remained fresh as we looked at this Complete Fourth Season.  Sedgwick has found an unforgettable role to be in and has grown very well in it.  At the same time, the show has not broken out into a major classic, but at the same time, it is one of the best police dramas of its kind in a long time and that is not easy when you have a glut similar to what TV Westerns were in the 1950s and 1960s.  However, it is a show with a potentially larger audience than it has and these DVDs cannot hurt the cause.

 

The anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image continues to impress as one of the best TV on DVD series of transfers of a new show to date.  Warner has made sure these look good and they slowly look better in minute ways as each season progresses.  The Dolby Digital 5.1 mix is also improved from previous seasons as the makers find better uses for the surrounds and recording quality is some of the best on TV.  Extras this time include unaired scenes, three making of featurettes and a gag reel.

 

 

-   Nicholas Sheffo