Highlander The Series - Season 4

Another great season of sword fighting and highlander mythology here. For big fans it is no spoiler to say that the show jumps the shark before it ends. But that shouldn't deter anyone from diving straight into this season where you get full on action and great storytelling. Duncon MacLeod is at his finest. His personal history is drawn out and the audience can relive his loves and his battles and the endless agony of an existence that just won't quit.

Episode 1: "Homeland" - The episode was the only one that was filmed in the highlands of Scotland. He returns to the grave of his first love, meets the immortal who killed his (adopted) father and tries to put together the pieces of his earliest days on Earth. For fans of Highlander lore, it will be a can't miss episode.
Episode 2: "Brothers in Arms" - Charlie DeSalvor returns. Dawson was a young soldier in Vietnam when he lost his legs and re-found a purpose in life as a watcher. MacLeod is forced to choose loyalty between two friends and it does not end well for anyone. It is a dark episode that lets the audience into the pain of a man who must watch everyone he knows die sooner or later.
Episode 3: "The Innocent" - Immortality is hard enough for Mac and Richie. They were fortunate enough to be born with a good head on their shoulders. But the introduction of a mentally retarded immortal teaches Richie a hard lesson about the pain and the great burden of living forever. Another dark episode that makes the viewer happy to be mortal.
Episode 4: "Leader of the Pack" - The Dogs of War were sent loose centuries ago but now MacLeod is about to turn the tables on Kanis, an Immortal whose Rottweilers hunt his opponents. this is a bad guy of the week episode but a worthy one. The bad guy is bad. The good guy is Mac. They fight and ... not to spoil it but it isn't the last episode.
Episode 5: "Double Eagle" - Amanda is back. She is hot. (Actually, of all the people President Clinton slept with, she is easily the hottest.) And there are some immortals that want to chop her head off. Kit O' Brady, a decent fellow has an old gambling grudge against her and plans to collect.
Episode 6: "Reunion" - That f-ing brat Kenny is back and Mac is quite comfortable to take his head but Kenny is being chased by a bad guy that MacLeod left on a deserted island alone without food or water for a hundred years. After a century of waking up, starving to death and waking up again (due to failure to learn to fish???) Kenny's chaser realizes he can get revenge on Mac. It is another great story about "Who wants to live forever?"
Episode 7: "The Colonel" - After WW1 Mac testified that an immortal was insane. He was. But he spent the next 70 years in nut houses in England and never quite forgave Mac. There is some good Watcher story here too.
Episode 8: "Reluctant Heroes" -Queen Anne made Mac swear an oath that Mac would not seek revenge on a man in her court. He swore not to do so as long as she lived. But she is no longer alive. The othe guy is.
Episode 9: "The Wrath of Kali" - India is an interesting country. They have immortals. Richie sort of falls under the spell of a preacher type-dude from India, Kamir. Basically, the one fault with this episode/season/series is the failure to develop Richie. The show is called "Highlander," so I get it but had this show aired 10 years later the minor characters would have been fully developed, complicated and central to the story. We can't make the series go back in time and get some Buffy, Lost or Walking Dead type writing. But this episode makes it obvious that this is a 90's show and not a 21st century series.
Episode 10: "Chivalry" - Methos is in the new world. Allegedly he is here to protect Richie from a naughty immortal girl but maybe he just wants to get back in the game after a few centuries on the sideline.
Episode 11: "Timeless" - Mac dressed up like a girl.
Episode 12: "The Blitz" - That chick that Mac bedded between a bunch of other chicks, Anne Lindsey got caught in a collapsed subway. The London blitz was another cool time in his life where he banged a chick who died in a subway / bomb shelter.
Episode 13: "Something Wicked" - Living forever is not a prize. It basically sucks. Probably the worst would be to be a fetus who gets the coat hanger then just keeps being reborn as a pre-viable fetus. But something else that would suck is being born as an immortal that can take the evil out of the world. After a while it just overwhelms you....
Episode 14: "Deliverance" - ... then Duncon takes your head and becomes evil.
Episode 15: "Promises" - Muslim people have been killing each other for centuries (or so I hear on Fox News). This time Macleod is all messed up in it.
Episode 16: "Methuselah's Gift" - Methos has lived for 5000 years. Not messing with Amanda had greatly aided his life span. But now Amanda's pendant might be able to save Methos' mortal girlfriend.
Episode 17: "The Immortal Cimoli" - This is a bad guy of the week episode. there are clowns and jugglers and Amanda and someone loses a head.
Episode 18: "Through a Glass, Darkly" - MacLeod aided and defended Bonnie Prince Charlie who tried to unite Scotland. But it didn't end well, nevertheless there is an immortal out there who thinks it could have ended better.
Episode 19 - "Double Jeapordy" -Xavier St. Cloud is back, if only in memory. So is that bond haired fluzey from season one or tow or whatever, who you forgot about. Anyway Mac must protect her from some one and maybe toss her around for a few romps in the sack.
Episode 20 - "Till Death" -Methos is clearly not the best choice for a marriage counselor. He was married 68 times to mortals because he knew better than to commit to an immortal.
Episode 21 - "Judgment Day" - OK. This is where s*** gets real. Dawson is called to Paris by the wathcers because Mac is dead-dead. It pretty much gets worse from there.
Episode 22 - "One Minute to Midnight" - Well not quite dead-dead. But Horton's mess is outliving Horton and watchers are killing immortals.

I didn't see any of the extras. Basically, Netflix dropped Highlander in June 2014 but it is still on Amazon. So I watched the rest. It is a cool show and I highly recommend it.

I just thought to see how Adrian Paul is. Check his filmography. I have always enjoys martial arts. I thought back in the 90s when I was watching Highlander "certainly looks like he has real world training, that it's not all just choreographed" when I read about the training Adrian has had I decided I have gotta see if I can own the series. I have stayed up & got very little sleep because I can't stop watching. Takes me back... but it's amazing how the passing of time affects how you remember things. Its been awesome to revisit the series. Better yet, I own it. Now if I could buy that incredible sword. And get the series on Blu-ray would be even better. Thanks Adrian. Marie Purvis

must watch it! I left these at home and now I'm streaming them over the internet.
The serie is a piece of my past and I watch it from time to time.

This was a very fun season. It starts off with Duncan returning to the Highlands of Scotland where he was born. This season introduces you to different types of immortals like a developmentally disabled immortal, a child immortal, and of course your regular immortals. MacLeod renovates a house for a very special purpose. Amanda and Methos make a few appearances throughout the season. Duncan has a "dark" quickening and turns evil and nearly kills Richie. The season ends with a war between the Watchers and Immortals.

I am a great fan of Adrian Paul I love the Highlander series I think he would make a great James Bond

very happy, looking forward to my next purchase.

I love it. Thanks Amazon Prime.

It is great to finally watch the fourth season again,and for the very first time watch them in English and with Eurominutes both. I have been a Highlander Fan since the first (and only acceptable) movie 1985, and I was a fan of the series since it came to German in 1993 (I think). But I always could only see it in German dubbing. Until now. And the fourth season is the best one - dramatically, and for the quality of the show. The fifth is a close runner-up, because it has unforgettable episodes like Comes a Horseman, Revelations and Forgive Us Our Tresspasses; but the overall development of Duncan in the fourth Season is breathtaking to watch again, and than there are episodes like Timeless, Something Wicked and Deliverance, with a breathtaking Dark Duncan MacLeod who seems still a bit too harmless to be really an irredeemable bad guy, but also shows all the necessary Horseman-material. And in the end: Judgement Day! With it's first thrilling hints about hos it would look if it ever came to war between watchers and Immortals! WOW!

I loved this season when I watched it in TV, and now I love to see it on Video again. It has much depth and is a fascinating explore of the Highlander universe. Great stuff!!!

Helga Abendroth, Germany