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Intelligence: Season 2

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Being in the U.S. I never heard of Intelligence but came across it on Amazon. I loved it instantly and pre-ordered season 2 as soon as I could. I rec'd season 2 3 days ago and I have one episode left. My plan was to stretch it out as long as possible since it is the final season and the first night had to force my self to stop after one disc. The second night I was not so lucky - I stayed up all night watching the next 6 hours. One episode before bed - that was the plan...watched until 5 a.m. Now I'm on the last disc and so sad. My family has been bugging me since I gave them season 1 - where's season 2? Kept forgetting it hadn't been released yet...no matter how many times I told them.I know they will be equally heartbroken when they finish it. I would love to see these actors all in another crime show soon - but something lasting more than 2 seasons. When you see a great show like this only last 2 seasons you've got to wonder what were they thinking? There's no way it was replaced by anything better - no possible way. Now I'm hunting for more Canadian crime shows I may have missed because they do it so well - Davinci's Inquest, Intelligence, and Cold Squad (not on DVD-but airing on SLEUTH TV) are all great shows-Davinci and Intel are pure genius with amazing actors who you truly believe are who they are. Ian Tracey is so talented. I completely believed him as Mic Leary and never thought I could turn around a believe him as Jimmy Reardon when he played such a great cop. But Jimmy Reardon is just as believable, perfectly played and the rest of the cast is equally fabulous. I always find myself rooting for the cops to put the bad guys way....Intel is the opposite -I like the actors, and want to root for the "good guys" but by the end of every episode, I'm on the edge of my seat rooting for Jimmy and his pals. What a great show - cancelling it had to be the worst mistake ever-that says alot considering how many good shows get cancelled by the idiots in network & cable TV, while a bunch of trash continues to air year after year.

If you like gritty cop shows, then you will love the Canadian-made INTELLIGENCE. It's as good as THE WIRE, THE SHIELD and HOMICIDE: LIFE ON THE STREETS, which are certainly the most realistic crime series ever seen on television.

Set in Vancouver, B.C., the drama takes you inside the murky worlds of organized crime and the cops who keep tabs on it. The leading character (Ian Tracey) is a good father, respected businessman and a major drug smuggler. On the other side of the fence is Klea Scott, the ambitious head of the city's Organized Crime Unit. She not only has the crooks to contend with, but also her colleagues in the intelligence community who are trying to sabotage her information-gathering efforts to bring down the "bad guys".

A quirk of fate brings these two key characters together in an uneasy alliance that could help or destroy both.

INTELLIGENCE, Season Two (12 episodes/4-discs) from Acorn Media, continues this tense drama, picking up the action where Season One's nail-biting cliff-hanger ending left off.

DVD extras include a discussion with series creator Chris Haddock and "Behind the Scenes" clips.

I titled this review Poor Decision Making because whoever decided to end this series knows nothing about quality. This is clearly one of the best acted, best scripted and most interesting shows on television and it is truly sad it is ending after only 2 seasons. Klea Scott and Ian Tracey lead with stunning performances week in and week out. Matt Frewer is brilliant. The writing will have you guessing what comes next and the stories are totally engaging. Ostensibly the Canadian The Wire, it is every bit as good as that excellent series.
I guess I am grateful for this show seeing the light of day, given that some genius decided to end it after 2 seasons. Let's have MORE of this quality television instead of reality shows and other trash that shouldn't see the light of day.

This is an excellent series--well-written and acted, and smart--and well worth the investment. I give Season One five stars and Season Two four stars. The disparity is due to the ending of Season Two, which serves as the series' ending, as well, because a planned third season was cancelled. The cancellation of Season Three appears to have left the writers with too little time to provide satisfying resolutions of the series' story lines, and the ending feels facile and rushed.

This was an amazing series. I wish now that I'd never seen it. I had no idea this was only for 2 seasons? How can a show like this get canceled? Great character development, interesting location, fantastic story line. What would have caused them to pull this show. I just finished watching the last episode, ugh! This has got to be one of the finest series ever on tv. I hate cop-shows but I love this show.

I absolutely loved intelligence, just finished watching the final episode and was hoping my friend was just joking when he told me the show and been cancelled and this is it. Impossible, you must give the intelligence fans a better ending? Is Jimmy dead? will Katrina make it to Paris? What's going to happen to Mary? There are so many ways to go with this show PLEASE, PLEASE DON'T GO!!

LOYAL FAN

Having purchased Season One - I was not let down by Season 2 of this very good series.
Ian Tracey, Klea Scott, Camille Sullivan,John Cassini & Matt Frewer all give outstanding performances in a good guys vs bad guys scenario. There is a lot of blurring of the lines between good & bad - and all the different Canadian & US spy agency acronyms can be a little confusing - having said that, this is the best television series I have seen for a long time. Why it only went for 2 seasons is unfathomable, when there is SO much bad TV that keeps going on & on & on!!
To me it was like reading a really good crime novel - ' Just one more chapter & I'll go to bed ' - I watched the whole of Season 2 in one day and was not for one second bored.
Things change so rapidly that one has to concentrate, past paced, great acting, good plot & boy, can the Canadians make good TV!!
I would recommend this series to anyone who liked 'Da Vinci's Inquest', 'the Wire' and 'Homicide - Life on the Streets'.
All quality shows that we do not seem to have at our fingertips now.

Just finished watching the final episode of Season Two, and I'm simultaneously exhilarated and crushed. It's very rare to find something this beautifully conceived and executed. The show is extraordinarily authentic - not necessarily about the spy and drug businesses, thankfully I have no experience with either and thus no basis for comparison. But this thing feels incredibly authentic in terms of its characters. Most television shows or movies never get anywhere close to this level of character authenticity because it's so much easier to manipulate viewers with plot twists. Doing it this way is both vastly more difficult and less likely to be a winner with the lowest common denominator. All the people who were involved in making this series obviously cared about it very deeply - even the smallest details and least significant characters ring true.

And that makes the arbitrary cancellation of the series after only two seasons all the more painful to accept. Maybe it was too smart to find a sufficient audience, or perhaps it hit a little too close to home for the soulless bureaucrats who canceled it. I suppose the reason doesn't matter so much now. Twenty six episodes exist, and they are brilliant. As other commenters have mentioned, I found myself spending some very late night hours as the episodes flew by far too fast.

This is a follow on to the first season and did live up to the first.

If you are into suspense, drama, and love superb acting...get Season 1 and Season 2. This series has beat out my all time favorite NYPD Blue.....and that was hard to do. Some of the actors/actresses were in Da Vinci's Inquest...another wonderful Canadian series.....these programs are Right On.......enjoyable, addictive, and leave you wishing the program wasn't over....I looked forward to the start of each program. Highly disappointed that Intelligence didn't continue after the 2nd Season.......great story lines, continuity, believable acting, scenery was unique and tasteful. I'm thinking the writers/producers scored big here. Directing was amazing......! Just a thought here, but why is it...that someone can't purchase all of the series of Da Vinci's Inquest....? Have been trying for quite some time.....what is up with that...? Every time I start liking a program...it is discontinued and then you can't purchase the whole series on dvd......while I'm still young....? Work with me....! Seriously watch Season 1 of Intelligence....then purchase Season 2....you will NOT be disappointed.....!
Enjoy.