Customer Reviews

Wire in the Blood 4 Pack

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(2)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Robson Green and a brilliant cast of pplayers bring process series to a new height in this classy psych series. BLOOD IN THE WIRE eclipses the American versions of these kinds of programs. Story lines are mature, intelligent, and explore the profoundly dark sides of human beings in a way that does not merely exploit but seeks to enlighten. The quality of the writing and psychological insight each program brings the audience is a cause for discussion among adults, a group for which American TV rarrely writes.

Just so others to whom this might be meaningful know: This gripping, well-acted series with intense story lines has no captioning. I watch everything with captions so I can catch occasional mumbled dialogue. I really struggle with this series on DVD, as the actors have fairly heavy accents and frequently do not articulate very clearly. I estimate that I'm missing (easily) 25 percent of what's spoken. I've no regrets about buying the set (I also bought seasons 5 and 6 and the episode that was released separately), but my viewing pleasure would be greatly enhanced if the DVDs had closed captioning. Given that the series is not that old, I was completely surprised that I couldn't access captions. Other than that (to me, significant) complaint about the set, the series is wonderful! If closed captioning was available, I would definitely give this set 5 stars.

I often love BBC mystery/crime drama series. This is one of my favorites. I have watched every episode in Seasons 1-3 at least 4 times in the past 2 years. I admit I am less fond of Season 4. What I love about the series is that the scripts are intelligently written, topics of each episode are different and unusual--rarely ones I've seen on American television, very well-acted. In Seasons 1-3, the dynamic between Tony Hill and Carol Jordan adds further continuity and interest to each episode. Location shooting also further enhances the stories, such as the episode where Jack--a serial rapist, beater, and killer--harms the girls in a former chapel and buries their bodies either in the church cemetary or dumps them in nearby rivers. The only reason I am not fond of Season 4 is that I didn't care for the character replacement for Carol Jordan when actress Hermione Norris left to go to Spooks (Roz Myers). Somehow the feel of the entire show changed, even with many old regulars, and I never personally liked those episodes as much as the earlier ones.