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Blue Murder - Complete Series 1-4
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A good set of female police work
Review date: 2008-06-24 Rating: 10 out of 10
I saw the four sets, I reviewed them all, but only the fourth set does not exist all by itself. So I will give the review of the fourth set for the box with the four sets. The first three are quite interesting and so do buy the full box and take your time to watch them one by one, or two by two. Here it is. NOT A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH - This episode is trying to enter the world of football addicts, of Blue Manchester United of course, the professional players, the contracts, the fans and of course those, young or old, men or women, who are fluttering or flattering around the so-called, self-called and supposed stars that don't always shine, nor even twinkle. One player is assassinated in the middle of the street one night and the witnesses are very reluctant to say what they have seen. And little by little the coppers find out that with those stars a name is enough for the fans who believe anything provided the right name is put on the pleasant face, even when the face is not that pleasant, or when the unpleasant thing is not the face. This drama entirely revolves around this simple fact that all is fake, all is illusion, especially success and stardom. DESPERATE MEASURES - Here is the General Practitioner of your neighborhood. Respectable, respected, for sure, but not by all. Believed, venerated, trusted, indeed but not by all. To be a GP, to have an important surgery and a lot of patients, to have a second younger doctor helping you, that's success, but what is behind all that? Not much. A doctor becomes very sloppy fast, sloppy or maybe simply lazy or impotent. And in front of his impotence, his incapability to solve problems like depression or drug addiction, he backs up and just repeats useless trite commonplace sentences like, "life must go on", or is it "the show" after all, because it is all a show and one can die in no time, out of depression, an overdose of morphine or just a good old suicide, with a good gun coming up at the last minute. But the series is coming to its end. The younger black woman inspector messes up the arrest of a prime suspect who could have been the criminal and had to be released. But the boss will mess up a far more important arrest later on. When a team starts doing blunders it is quite obvious the end is near and the team has to be de-structured to be recomposed. Yet intricate enough to keep you interested. CRISIS MANAGEMENT - End of life crisis. The series is coming to a close. This last episode is supposed to go grandiose, to go eternal. So let's take the armed forces into the picture. That's spectacular with all the uniforms, with the barracks in ancient castles, with the discipline and the language, and of course with the conflict of interests and of methods between the good old police and the not so good but just as old armed forces. But don't expect anything transnational and patriotically ethical. Nothing but sordid family business, and Officer Lewis says it just right, most crime are family affairs. Maybe that's slightly limited as for profiling, but that is true if we are only dealing with isolated crimes. And the episode is there to prove it and prove it it does. Sordid. The worst part of it is that the armed forces of any country produce the two elements necessary for such a nasty crime. First the belief that anything that happens in the armed forces will remain there and the armed forces will do all they can to cover it up. And the second element is that those who are attached to the armed forces without being members of them, like the children and the spouses have a tendency to believe there is no one to help them when there is a problem in the armed forces since the armed forces are going to do all they can to cover it up, and they would never think of the police, of course, except of course the Military Police, which is no police at all.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris Dauphine, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne & University Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines
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Reviews
PLEASE, PLEASE Release Series 3&4 Separately
Review date: 2008-04-03 Rating: 10 out of 10
G'day, I love this show, but, i am annoyed that I can't buy series 3 & 4 and like the other reviewers, I refuse to buy the complete set when I already own series 1 & 2. I'll be hanging in there, waiting. Please don't let us wait to long, be fair and release series 3 & 4, you know you will get the sales.
saddened
Review date: 2008-04-01 Rating: 6 out of 10
I agree with all the previous comments. I have series 1 and 2 and DO NOT want to fork out on the "complete series 1 to 4" to watch series 3 and 4. ITS NOT FAIR!!
and what is SET 1 and SET2 of this show?
PLS EXPLAIN
thx.
Rip off...
Review date: 2008-03-30 Rating: 2 out of 10
I'm yet another victim of this nasty new habit that the TV companies are developing. I have Series 1 & 2 and will not rebuy them just to get the last two! The same thing happened with The Vicar of Dibly.
Brain Dead
Review date: 2008-02-24 Rating: 2 out of 10
Sorry Charlie...
I liked the show and already purchased 1 & 2. Not going to buy them again.
Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Caroline Quentin
Ian Kelsey
David Schofield
Nicholas Murchie
Paul Loughran
Director(s):
Recording label: ITV DVD
Manufacturer: ITV DVD
EAN: 5037115265739
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 7
Format: Box set, PAL,
Release date: 2008-01-21
Audience rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region code: 2
Running time: 894 minutes