Videophiled TVD: The end – ‘Manhattan,’ ‘Mr Selfridge,’ ‘Strike Back,’ ‘Heroes Reborn’

by Sean Axmaker | Jun 2, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

Manhattan: Season Two (Lionsgate, Blu-ray, DVD) covers more ground than the first season of the WGN original drama set at the Los Alamos military base where the atomic bomb was developed during World War II, both historically and thematically. William Petersen joins...

Videophiled TVD: Beginnings – ‘The Expanse,’ ‘Togetherness,’ ‘Mercy Street,’ and ’19-2′

by Sean Axmaker | May 29, 2016 | Home Viewing, TV, What's Hot

The Expanse: Season One (Universal, Blu-ray, DVD) is the most ambitious original science fiction series created by the SyFy network since their award-winning Battlestar Galactica reboot. Based on the best-selling novels by James S. A. Corey (the pen name of authors...

Videophiled TV: ‘Show Me a Hero,’ ‘Mr. Robot,’ ’12 Monkeys,’ and the rest of the best of recent TV on disc

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...

Videophiled TVD: ‘Better Call Saul,’ ‘Peaky Blinders,’ the end of ‘Hannibal,’ the beginning of ‘Game of Thrones,’ and more TV on disc

by Sean Axmaker | Dec 13, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Better Call Saul: Season One (Sony, Blu-ray, DVD) – Bob Odenkirk is Jimmy McGill, a struggling lawyer trying to get both respect and clients in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in this prequel series to the award-winning Breaking Bad. He was Saul Goodman in that show, the...

Videophiled TVD: The complete ‘Boardwalk Empire,’ new seasons of ‘Broadchurch’ and ‘Orange is the New Black,’ ‘Dancing on the Edge’ from Britain and more

by Sean Axmaker | May 24, 2015 | Home Viewing, What's Hot

Boardwalk Empire: The Complete Series (HBO, Blu-ray, DVD) opens with Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the treasurer of Atlantic City and the man who runs the town — and the graft — from behind the pose of public service, toasting the U.S. Congress and the...