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The Sentinel - The Complete First Season

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1 star:		(1)

 

 

The product discription describes this series fairly well. But what it doesn't tell you is that this is an excellent series. Every episode had you on the edge of your seat. This was Richard Burgi's first starring role. The first season was definitely the best.

If you like to collect TV shows that were ahead of its time and therefore, didn't last, this is one to add to your collection.

If you like edgy detective shows, this is one to add to your collection.

If you like breakout performances, this is one to add to your collection.

I will definitely add this to my collection.

I'm thrilled to see that Paramount has finally released my all time favorite show to DVD! This show had a great premise and wonderful, interesting characters with a great rapport. Richard Burgi and Garett Maggart were excellent and made a potentially unbelievable partnership completely engaging. Now everyone can finally see what all the Sentinel fans were so passionate about! Yay! Jim and Blair are coming home!

The Sentinel was one of those fun shows from the late 1990's; fun cop drama with lots of humor. There was some cheesy-ness, but over all it was a good series.

As for the DVD's pictures and sound is superb. Honestly, the picture quality is better than when the series ran on UPN, and the sound, while only being 2 channel is still wide open and fills the room nicely.

However, there are no special features here and no close captioning. Fans know there are blooper reels in existance and I hope for future seasons we see some extras. Commentaries with Richard Burgi, Garett Maggert, and Bruce A Young would be nice as well

After what seems like too many years, fans of The Sentinel have finally been rewarded for their perserverance with Season One on DVD.

My rating is actually split between my rating for the show and for the DVD set itself. The show earns 5 stars for it's interesting premise, exciting action sequences and talented actors who gave these characters so much charisma. Especially of note is Richard Burgi as Jim Ellison - a police detective with enhanced senses, and Garett Maggart as Blair Sandburg - the university graduate student who is the only one who really understands what Jim is and is able to help him.

The DVD set contains 10 episodes and while that's plenty of entertainment, the set has absolutely none of the extras that seem to have become standard. That was a little dissapointing and lowered my final rating slightly, but I'm still delighted to finally have this show on DVD.

Sentinel fans have been waiting for this for years. I don't even have to see it to give it five stars out of five. I nearly had a happy seizure when I saw it and pre-ordered right away!!!!!

I worked nights when this series aired in our area and missed it completely. Thank heavens for the release of the season one dvd set, but when are the next three seasons coming out? It isn't what I expected, it was so much more. There seemed to be an honest liking and respect between the three main actors that made their parts shine. More please!

The "buddy show' genre in television programming has unfortunately met its demise these days so it's refreshing to see that some of the best can live on through DVD release. "The Sentinel" is among the best shows this genre had to offer. It featured an outstanding cast which included Richard Burgi,
Garrett Maggart, and Bruce A. Young. In addition to a talented cast, "The Sentinel" featured intelligent police drama, high suspense, and the unique mysteries surrounding Jim's abilities as a Sentinel. In subsequent seasons - which I hope are released on DVD soon! - Jim's role as Sentinel and Blair's role as Guide are expanded and Sentinel Mysticism factors into the plot of almost every episode. Personally, I loved the mystical element of this series. It made the show unique and creative, two concepts sorely lacking in the programs airing today.

This DVD set is excellent, though I would like to see a full cast photo on the cover of future releases. These ten first season episodes are outstanding for their visual quality and content. As I finished watching the set I found it difficult to not watch the rest of the series on my old worn out VHS tapes! It was interesting to watch and I wanted to see more. It's unfortunate that season one and two were not combined into one set. Season Two must be released as the true essence of this program is only explored after the first ten episodes.

"The Sentinel" aired in the late 1990's on the UPN Network and quickly picked up a huge and enthusiastic fan base. This fan base is still very much alive today and I encourage anyone who may have missed this series when it aired to pick up the Season One DVD set. I guarantee you will have a new favorite "buddy show" to enjoy whenever you wish!

Looking forward to Season Two and beyond...

This was a great show, right from the beginning. It didn't have the rocky start in the first season that so many shows seem to have. I'm still waiting anxiously for the second season!

This was a really good show; its a shame it stoped airing after only 65 episodes. Lets just hope paramount releases the remaining season's in this often overlooked series....

Jim Ellison is a special forces soldier who's abandoned by the army believed dead. When the army discover Ellison is very much alive he returns to civilzation as a detective with the Cascade PD. Here, Ellison begins to see things other people don't and hear things other people don't naturally, he thinks he's crazy. He goes to hospital to find out what's going on and meets up with Sanburg, a university student studying people with hyperactive senses. Sandburg offers to help Jim as long as he can become he's thesis and this is the beginning of the series.

What I liked about this series was it's new its not like any other police detective movie I've ever seen. I think Sandburg hits the nail on the head when he says "you're a monster man, you're a walking crime lab, with organic sensory equipment what more could you want?". It's a good storyline, its exciting, and its very different. The first two series were very good but the series was cancelled after the third. I wasn't a fan of the third series I believe it lost the plot somewhat. While Jim had hyperactive senses these senses would still have their limits and by the third series they were stretching the capacities of his senses.