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The Unusuals: The Complete Series (2009)

Amber Tamblyn , Jeremy Renner  |  Unrated |  DVD
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Amber Tamblyn, Jeremy Renner, Harold Perrineau, Adam Goldberg, Terry Kinney
  • Format: NTSC, Widescreen
  • Language: English
  • Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
  • Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 2
  • Rated: Unrated
  • Studio: Sony Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: April 6, 2010
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (72 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0025KVKDO
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,238 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • Learn more about "The Unusuals: The Complete Series" on IMDb

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In a world bookended by extreme drama and comic insanity, NYPD Detective Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) moves from Vice to Homicide to investigate the murder of a fellow cop. Considered by her new boss, Sergeant Harvey Brown (Terry Kinney), to be unimpeachable because of her family’s wealth – a fact she carefully keeps hidden – Casey quickly learns that she isn’t the only cop with a secret. Thrust into a world that’s already rife with eccentrics and tainted by corruption, Casey cautiously navigates Homicide’s treacherous waters as she joins the victim’s partner, Detective Jason Walsh (Jeremy Renner), in unraveling the knot of conflicting clues that they hope will lead them to the killer and ultimately reveal the truth behind the dead cop’s past.

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4.8 out of 5 stars
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4.8 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed this show's sense of humor mixed in with the "standard cop drama". E. Studley  |  22 reviewers made a similar statement
This is one of my favorite shows. QueenP  |  16 reviewers made a similar statement
I thoroughly enjoyed the entire series and watched every episode. Classic Monte & Antique Rosi  |  14 reviewers made a similar statement
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45 of 45 people found the following review helpful
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- Shraeger: "Hefties. I swear if you took all the time that men wasted thinking about the female breast throughout history, there'd only be enough time to read a magazine."
- Walsh: "You mean like Jugs or Maxim?"

Same old, same old with the big television networks. Put on a promising show, cancel a promising show. ABC's appallingly short-lived THE UNUSUALS is the latest victim to fall prey to the arsebackward peccadillos of these program directors. Ten episodes are all we get, with plot threads hanging unresolved all over the place. Sad.

THE UNUSUALS takes up where LIFE left off, in terms of offbeat characters embedded in an intriguing police procedural. New York City detectives Casey Shraeger and Jason Walsh are our early eyes and ears to what makes this series tick, and it's Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) towards whom we naturally gravitate as she's the newbie in the lot, what with her having just two seconds ago been reassigned from Vice to the 2nd Precinct Homicide Division. Shraeger is instantly thrown in the deep end, her new unit tapped to look into the murder of a very flawed police detective who turns out to be the old partner of Jason Walsh (Jeremy Renner), who is now Shraeger's new partner. But it's always perilous poking into a hornet's nest, and, o jaded us, it's not startling at all that Shraeger would inevitably catch a whiff of police corruption. One smug perp actually passes judgment on the 2nd Squad, mocking it as "Chaotic. Disorganized. Too much personality. Not enough discipline." He should've added "dysfunctional."

- Police Dispatcher: "2nd Squad, this is Dispatch reminding you that handcuffs are for official police business only.
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70 of 78 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Unusuals May 18, 2009
By D.D.O
Format:DVD
Really liked this show. Very disappointed that there will only be one
season but that seems to happen to a lot of shows I like, for instance
Wonderfalls and Firefly.
I liked the characters and their relationships with eachother. I also enjoyed
the humor. Sorry to see this one go.
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62 of 69 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars More, More, MORE! May 13, 2009
Format:DVD
I LOVE this series! It's like NYPD BLUE with humor and on acid!
Each episode has certainly lived up to the title and the characters' quirks drive the plots forward with a compelling "drive-by" momentum. It's so good to see actors who have done great work in the past get such meaty roles---like Amber Tamblyn, Adam Goldberg, Terry Kinney, and Harold Perrineau (who is still my favorite Mercutio!)
This is one show I will definitely get when it becomes available on DVD. ---Can't wait because I've missed an episode or two no longer available to view online.
Definitely worth the search on the ABC schedule.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars It's Good to be Unusual April 8, 2010
Format:DVD
The box The Unusuals comes in claims the series is "dark and gritty." This is a flat-out lie. There's nothing gritty about The Unusuals at all. But this is a good thing.

Sony Pictures is just afraid you won't buy this if you don't think it's a duplicate of every other cop show made in the last twenty years. ABC feared the same and mis-marketed the comedy as a hard-boiled grimefest. Unsurprisingly, it tanked in the ratings. But what does exist of it is fortunately available now.

Normally, I don't go for cop shows, but this one stood out to me. It's about the characters -- true to the title, everyone working at the precinct is UNUSUAL in some way. Amber Tamblyn steals the series as Casey Shraeger, a stereotype-defying smartmouthed heiress who wants to pursue her own interests (and attempts to keeps her true identity secret for much of the series). Harold "WHERE'S MAH BOOOOOOOOOOOYYYYYYYYYY?" Perrineau plays a paranoid detective convinced he's fated to die within one year. (We never get to find out if that's true.) Other cast members range from a former baseball pro to a sergeant who really wanted to be an astronaut but discovered he was afraid of heights. The cases they get handed are also suitably bizarre.

Tamblyn prophetically said in an interview that the series could run into problems for "being so unique." For those who are tired of network factory entertainment and want to see a show unafraid to break the mold, I recommend the ten episodes of The Unusuals. Woe that there aren't any more, but I fear if it had gone on, ABC might have tried to turn it into the depressing thing they were selling it as.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A breath of fresh air February 26, 2010
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The police procedural is a show that has been made and remade more than a couple of times, covering everything from the detectives working cases as in the "Law and Order" franchise, to the forensics of the investigations such as in "CSI" and its spinoffs. These shows are mostly dramas, dealing with the motivations and conflicts of the people investigating these cases, but comedic police dramas have also been attempted with varying success rates. Often these "police comedy dramas" are more than a little formulaic, seldom venturing beyond what the characters feel about the case of the week or the romantic tension between the female and male leads. These shows aren't necessarily bad, and they fare well with general audiences due to their "safe" nature, but their derivative nature can become tiresome for those who have seen more than a few police dramas and know the ropes. "The Unusuals" is one of those shows that comes along to defy these conventions, with a snappy sense of humor that dares to be absurd, distinct quirky characters with complex motivations, pasts, real personal problems, and some very involving drama.

"The Unusuals" deals with the humorous chaos and often grounded reality of the lives and work of the detectives in the second precinct police station in New York. Detective Casey Shraeger (Amber Tamblyn) of the NYPD is transferred from Vice (short for "Vice Unit", which investigates matters such as narcotics, pornography, and in this case prostitution) working undercover as a prostitute, to the second precinct in order to do internal affairs house cleaning at the request of precinct commander Sergeant Harvey Brown (Terry Kinney) who believes the fact she comes from a wealthy family yet decided to become a police officer makes her incorruptible.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Renner made it
Jeremy Renner he is amazing and talented, he was the highlight in this series i enjoyed watching the series great cast.
Published 4 days ago by Janet K Black
5.0 out of 5 stars Great series; cancelled too soon
I hate when I get interested in a new TV series and then it gets cancelled before it even has a chance to catch on. This series was a prime example of that. Read more
Published 1 month ago by John F
5.0 out of 5 stars Hill Street Bluers
Loved this short series. Had a lot of funny and likeable scenes and characters. I would have liked to see a few more episodes. It ended too soon, however I really enjoyed it.
Published 2 months ago by gertibird
5.0 out of 5 stars Superior Television Why was it cancelled
I did not watch the Unusuals while it was running on TV, maybe it was not aired at an opportune time. Read more
Published 2 months ago by J. Myles
5.0 out of 5 stars Good show gone to soon
This show was just another casualty of the networks not giving a show time to find an audience. When it first aired, I started watching for Adam Goldberg. Read more
Published 2 months ago by K. Luckenbill
5.0 out of 5 stars Studios! Get your act together!!
This was a GREAT show that should NEVER have been cancelled!! Note to studios: there are intelligent people out here who don't want just more mindless drivel. Read more
Published 2 months ago by John D. Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars Jeremy Is HOT
I loved Jeremy in it, as far as story wise it had its moments, especailly the brain tumor an 42 bi lines
Published 3 months ago by Afsheen Ali
5.0 out of 5 stars Underrated!
This show could have gone another 6-8 seasons easily. It was comedic paranoia at its finest. Hopefully another network picks it up & gives it another well-deserved shot.
Published 3 months ago by Saigrah
3.0 out of 5 stars Just wanted to try another Jeremy Renner movie
I found this series very good, drama and a lot of humor. I can see why it was cancelled but I did enjoy the characters in this series but what I did see was enough.
Published 3 months ago by Nancy H. Cagle
5.0 out of 5 stars love this series
i really love this series and wish it was still on. i was looking for jeremy renner movies when i happen on to it. make me laugh and keeps me interested in their lives. Read more
Published 4 months ago by allbooks
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The Unusuals does the ending leave you hanging?
No cliffhanger, Vegas. As with any series that is cancelled before it's time, there were some loose ends remaining but the main running storyline concerning a dirty cop was resolved.
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