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Waking the Dead: The Complete Season Two

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Resolving cold cases through improved forensic techniques and psychological examination (in a gentler form than Cracker) makes this a series worth watching and relishing. No hype, no spinning guns, no blood splattering about, but honest footwork conducted by a dedicated team looking for answers. The cast is good enough that French and Saunders made a funny parody of it and was merciless on "Boyd" the Inspector of the team. Excellent cast even in some uneven scripts that are forgivable due to the total sensibility of the series.

Season two of the British version of Cold Case with less music and more realistic detective work. The forensic specialists actually have to wear unattractive suits when investigating their cases. No cleavage shots and high heels here.

The character development is minimal, yet the characters are so rich and engaging because of the way they interact. Boyd is a unique detective, gruff and confident yet somehow likeable and not coming off as arrogant.

The only negative is the lack of extras. A documentary of the production and the actors would be very welcome. You only get the episodes and nothing else, but what enthralling episodes they are.

This makes the Closure and CSI kids stuff. The stories are a little heavy and gruesome but it is the best of its kind. I will there were more of them. This is the last one.

They also try to bring to justice the "Cold Cases. Very British.

Not at all a major fan of crime series and certainly not of the past years "virtual rape" by hit series such as CSI (and its multiple off springs) I very reluctantly opened up for series 6 of the show recently. In Denmark each double episode is shown together with no commercial interruption so it actually takes a similar form of a movie (80 minutes in all).

The episodes I have seen so far have been more than decent with very creative plots and story lines and an amazing ability to avoid perfect Hollywood endings, troubled main characters and interesting use of technology (forensics).

For a reluctant crime series watcher like myself 4 Stars basically explode my scale ... If you are even remotely into this kind of thing 5 stars will for sure not be enough.

excellent UK murder drama, often in 2 parts. Clever plots with a couple of story lines overlapping. Modern times drama, Great acting. Glad to have bought it for myself, but already have lent it!! They really enjoyed the drama too. I bought 3 series at once. to save postage to Austalia.. Highly recommend for a good night IN

Waking the Dead Season Two: Sames as season three. We like it very much. Keeps your interest.

my wife and I really love this show, but we can't find anymore seasons.We have the pilot and the first two seasons.I have gone to BBC america but I don't see them anywhere.This series is a great show, the cast is good at portraying CSI's in a believable way.I just wish we could get more DVD's,I know over in England they have at least 7 more seasons. Anyway It's a very good show.

Waking the Dead is a fantastic series. Trevor Eve is incredible as the conflicted Peter Boyd. While there have been cast changes in the last season or two, the series remains as strong as ever. Fortunately, the original cast is still intact through the first four seasons. I hope Amazon will offer more seasons of this phenomenal show.

Season two (2) of "Waking the Dead" finds the splendid "cold case" unit splendidly solving some horrendous cases that have remained unsolved for a long time and in some instances have "tie-ins" with crimes that are occurring in the "now". I found Season Two (2) to be even better than Season One (1).

Season two (2) stories are so well written and acted by all. The direction is superb. The actors that comprise the cold case unit are so very good; they seem to have really "settled into" the roles that they are playing. What I love so much about this show is that each character is very sure of his/her own expertise. Therefore, there are some battles between all with Trevor Eve as the Unit's leader, DCI Boyd having to solve these "battles" in a sometimes gruff manner. Eve is so very good in this show. I also really adore actress Sue Johnston as the psychologist--she kind of keeps DCI Boyd (Trevor Eve) "grounded" in sometimes an amusing way.

If you want to experience a really good mystery/detective show that I feel is created for adults or people with mature minds, buy Season two (2) of "Waking the Dead". This season contains four (4) two (2) part episodes on two (2) discs each part running about an hour.

This series is great fun in trying to figure out the mystery as well as enjoying the interaction of the main characters. I highly recommend this series for those who truly want a mystery with many turns and red herrings. Can't say enough good things about it.