by Sean Axmaker | May 8, 2014 | Home Viewing, What's Hot
Hill Street Blues: The Complete Series (Shout Factory, DVD) – Steven Bochco had racked up over 15 years of writing and producing credits when he revolutionized the cop drama with this groundbreaking series, an ensemble serial set in an unidentified inner city...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 24, 2014 | Home Viewing
Murder on the Home Front (PBS, Blu-ray, DVD), a lively and witty murder mystery set in 1940 London, is ostensibly a stand-alone telefilm made for British TV but it plays just like a pilot for a new mystery series designed to combine the popularity of historical...
by Sean Axmaker | Apr 10, 2014 | Home Viewing
Broadchurch: The Complete First Season (eOne, Blu-ray, DVD) follows the investigation of a single case – the murder of an 11-year-old boy, whose body is found at foot of a beachside cliff in a small (fictional) vacation on the Dorset coast – through eight episodes....
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 27, 2014 | Home Viewing
Veep: The Complete Second Season (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD, Digital) improves upon its first by remembering that its central character, Vice President Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), is in fact a savvy politician in culture of power-brokers, number-crunchers, PR flaks,...
by Sean Axmaker | Mar 13, 2014 | Home Viewing
Mr. and Mrs. Murder: Series One (Acorn, DVD), a breezy mystery series from Australia, is on par with the more lighthearted strain of British detective shows. This one features a likable married couple who run a crime scene cleaning business and inevitably turn...