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The Eleventh Hour: The Complete Series

5 star:		(15)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
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1 star:		(1)

 

 

...in many years. Eleventh Hour rivaled CSI for hard-hitting, edge-of-your-seat drama, while the smaller, more intimate cast had a chemistry more intense than any found in a laboratory. Dealing with 'science fact' rather than science fiction, Eleventh Hour deals with many of the major issues in science today, including stem cells, human cloning, cryogenics and nanotech. Endlessly fascinating, it is a series that could - and should - have had many long years on television.

One of the best new TV shows of last year! Together with Fringe no show had this quality. Unbelievable it got canceled! Great cast, thought provoking stories. Why is it the good shows always get canceled. Glad there is a way to get it On Demand!

This was such a great show. If you missed it while on TV it would be well worth the cost to purchase the 1st and only season! I keep hoping they bring it back!

I loved the series. there are alot worse shows still on, doesn't make sense to me

I've said this elsewhere... for some unknown reason Amazon have pulled Eleventh Hour - The Complete Series from sale and taken down more than twenty five-star reviews, but it's still available from the Warner Bros online store.

Intelligent show with so much potential for growth. Was the best show on tv. Really was looking forward to future seasons. This show should have never been cancelled. Great actors/characters. Rufus Sewell excells as Jacob Hood. Have enjoyed watching it over and over again on the dvd. Please bring this wonderful show back.

I thoroughly enjoyed this series on CBS. I was thrilled when I was notified that I could purchase it. Then it turned out that Amason didn't have it and I had to purchase it form another sellers link through Amazon.
The show was totally believable in this day and age, and CBS cancels another one.
The show had interesting cases each week. The development of the friendship between Rachel(the FBI Agent) and Jason Hood(the FBI Asset) was an enjoyable process to watch from being resentful of the assignment, to realizing that she couldn't have had a better assignment was interest. The addition of Agent Lee seemed to make the team.
I never saw the British version of this show, but if it was anything like this one it would be very interesting.

Great series too bad it was canceled. Like Numbers except for science. All science is accurate. Good plots. Some violence.

The Eleventh Hour Is Not Just Another Series//It's Really Very Very Good/
The Casting Is Super/I Like The Scripts And Good Direction//
The Only Problem That I Had Is When The Music Sountrack Is So Loud That
You Can't Understand What The Actors Are Saying/I Guess They Think
that The Sound Tract Is More Important Than What The Actors Are Saying//
I Liked The Episode Called ETERNAl/ Again I Say To The Producers Of This Series/
With All The Money That You Spent You Should Have Used SUBTITLES//
Stanley Cooper Jupiter Florida
zoundz@bellsouth.net

I absolutely loved The Eleventh Hour, the 2006 BBC production, and was very disappointed the series ended with only four episodes. I was glad to see CBS picked up the storyline starring Rufus Sewell (who I also admire), and purchased this DVD set expecting very similar stories. Sadly, I never learn to curb my enthusiasm and "test run" a TV series by viewing a bit of it through my mail order DVD rental program, and now I am stuck with a pricey DVD set that I will only watch once. The original British series was written as based on science-fact, positing stories of deep ethical choices, powerful personal motives, or seriously unethical interests grown from power and money. I even learned a tidbit about Hans Geiger and his work with the Nazi's. Each of the four stories were entirely believable, however fictional the premise. In hind sight, I must admit the 90-minute format of the British series allowed for more depth, intrigue, and development than a forty-four minute American sprint to a climax. The American series made a number of mistakes, the most egregious for me being the copying of original scripts. If one spends millions on a new series, I would hope one has enough money to pay for a new story and not copy-cat (not once but twice!) the creativity of our English cousins. I was hoping that the characters, Ian Hood in England and Jacob Hood in America, would be related, perhaps as father and son, allowing for more developed story line and even a bit of cameo by Patrick Stewart (Ian Hood). But no, that kind of barrowing of story line from Britain is not seen as a creative enhancement, we only copy complete scripts. Finally, in one American episode, we see Jacob (Rufus Sewell) replying to a TV broadcast of commercial advertising with the line, "Lies"; he changes the station, views another commercial and says of it, "Lies!" He endeared himself to me with that moment. Yet, in the following episode, Jacob Hood saves the day for all by inventing a chimarized gene therapy in a matter of hours, using a simple, unsophisticated, college science laboratory. I want to know how I, too, can perform a polymerase chain reaction with a bit of glass and a Bunsen burner. He then injects a suffering youth with his concoction without any test or study, committing the same act of seriously unethical medical practice that originally placed the suffering youth in jeopardy. Say again, "Lies!" (The youth, by the way, is trapped for at least a day in a Coast Guard decompression chamber to control the biological reaction that would otherwise kill him and I kept asking dumb questions like, "Where's the toilet?" (in that chamber?).) This is not science fact; the American version is very much science fiction in its full implausibility. Anyone want to by this series at reduced cost? I've got one.