TV Disc Release of the Week
Worst Week The Complete Series (DVD only)
Commentary with Executive Producer Matt Tarses and star Kyle Bornheimer on Pilot episode
I really enjoyed this show and was kind of shocked to find out it had been cancelled and so many terrible sitcoms had hung around. Worst Week was an American remake of the British show The Worst Week of My Life. The UK series was comprised of 7 episodes a season, and the American version seems to have covered all the ground they did across the pond (I hate that expression but ran out of ways to rephrase UK/US). The show runs a little under six hours and is well worth tracking down. Amazon has it for $20.
Fringe Season 1
Ashley loves the chunk of the first season that we saw, but I can't sink $50 into the Blu-ray at this point, so we may wait for them to pop up used. TV on Blu-ray needs to drop in price or nobody's going to buy it.
The Office Season 5
Deleted Scenes
Gag Reel
100 Episodes, 100 Moments
The Office Promos
Webisodes
Episode Commentaries
Academy of TV Arts & Sciences Presents The Office
Blu-ray Exclusive: One-Liner Soundboard via BD-Live
This show could potentially run for 20 years. Anyone doubt that it could? ER went for what, 15?
Parks and Recreation Season 1
Episode Commentaries
Extended Cut of Season Finale
Deleted Scenes
I really couldn't get into the show past the first couple episodes, but that all changed once I didn't have to deal with watching commercials. I really like all the people in the cast, and I dug the concept. The commercials killed the pacing.
Harper's Island
Select Episodic Commentary
Harper's globe Webisodes
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes: Casting Harper's Island, One by One: The Making of Harper's Island, Guess Who?, The Grim Reaper
I really love that CBS actually put a horror thriller serial into production. You usually don't see any one of those three words associated with a major network these days. That being said, it's not the smartest or most entertaining miniseries I've seen that revolves around a mysterious killer murdering the guests at an event. A beautiful heiress is set to marry her intended and their family and friends start disappearing in the days leading up to the wedding day. Little did anyone know (or...did they) that seven years ago, a serial killer murdered a bunch of people on the island they've picked for the destination wedding. It's worth Netflixing, but not necessarily owning.
Criminal Minds Season 4
Deleted Scenes
Profiles
Gag Reel
Working the Scene: A Look Behind the Scenes
As much as I enjoy police procedurals, I'm an Anthropologist by schooling and Criminal Minds is ten times as addictive as the average Law & Order knockoff. Four years in, they've had a chance to build really rich character backstories, and it's starting to really pay off. I particularly like how they handle the Working the Scene featurettes on this set, where they tailor them to individual episodes (11 out of the 26 on here).
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