by Sean Axmaker | Feb 12, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Show Me a Hero (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD), a six-hour HBO miniseries developed by David Simon (The Wire) and William F. Zorzi from the non-fiction book by Lisa Belkin and directed by Paul Haggis (with a subtlety and nuance I didn’t know he had in him), stars Oscar Isaac as...
by Sean Axmaker | Sep 13, 2014 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete First Season (ABC, Blu-ray, DVD) is a problematic debut season. I think we can all agree on that. Critics have been less kind and fans more indulgent but the fact is, this series took most of the season to find its...
by Sean Axmaker | Aug 28, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
TV has changed radically in the last decade but even with cable and streaming rivals, split seasons and winter and spring debuts, September remains the launch of the new TV season and that means the previous seasons start to roll out on disc in August. There are...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 17, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Orphan Black: Season Two (BBC, Blu-ray, DVD) confirms what I suspected back when I binge-watched the first season on disc last year: this BBC America original series (which is, of course, produced in Canada by a Canadian creative crew) soars almost entirely on the...
by Sean Axmaker | Jul 3, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
The Bridge: The Complete First Season (US) (Fox, Blu-ray, DVD) – The U.S. has a long and complicated history of remaking foreign shows, with a lot of failures but also a lot of success stories. The Bridge is one of the more natural imports. The original show, a dark...