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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP DISTRIBUTION
EAN: 9780738931654
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0738931659
Label: Shout Factory Theatr
Manufacturer: Shout Factory Theatr
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Shout Factory Theatr
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 24, 2005
Running Time: 480 minutes
Sales Rank: 14608
Studio: Shout Factory Theatr
Theatrical Release Date: March 14, 2001
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The critically-acclaimed, gritty comedy starring Denis Leary now on DVD! All 19 episodes on 4 DVDs!
Mike McNeil (Denis Leary) is a self-medicating, hard-drinking, decorated New York City detective with a wife, a mistress and a crush on a coworker. Surrounded by a partner and fellow squad members who are just as colorful, McNeil pursues his uniquely unconventional, yet effective, approach to crime solving while attempting to manage the chaos of his personal life.
Originally broadcast on ABC in 2001, The Job was shot entirely on location in New York City, giving the show a gritty look to match its always edgy comedy.
Special Features:
Interview/Commentary with creators Denis Leary & Peter Tolan Gag Reel
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Network television says they want original programs, but they don't always know what to do with them. Case in point: The Job, the late lamented series that lasted but 19 episodes before being unceremoniously yanked by ABC. So long Mike McNeil; we hardly knew ye. But what we did see of Denis Leary's working class anti-hero made for arrestingly funny television. McNeil, a cop, smokes, drinks, pops pills, and juggles a wife and girlfriend. And it's all beginning to catch up with him. "This stuff is Biblical," notes his partner, an African American whom the squad has nicknamed "Pip" (as in Gladys Knight and the...). The Job is not your typical workplace sitcom. There is no laugh track. Based on a real cop whom Leary befriended while researching his role in the remake of The Thomas Crown Affair, The Job has the raw sound, rough language, and gritty look and texture of authenticity. It was shot documentary-style on location in New York. The focus of the series is more personal and less procedural than other cop shows. We get to know intimately this flawed and funny close-knit band of brothers, including straight-arrow Pip (Bill Nunn); Frank (Lenny Clarke), an old school cop and great bear of a man; and Det. Jan Fendrich (Diane Farr), a capable member of this boys' club in the classic Howard Hawks tradition, and who perhaps might have become a love interest for Mike had the series continued.
A series benchmark is "Barbeque," in which an anniversary party hosted by Pip and his commanding wife, Adina, inexorably descends into chaos when McNeil and company disregard Adnia's "no alcohol" edict. Another classic is the episode in which McNeil suspects that Frank is gay. While it does not jibe with Internet episode guides, the episode chronology on this four-disc set builds to a powerful climax, with Mike's girlfriend en route to confront his long-suffering wife (who may herself be having an affair), and Pip considering cheating on Adina with an old flame, all scored to the Ramones' pounding rendition of "Wonderful World." Whether it was ahead of its time, a victim of network neglect and mishandling, or just too dramatically different, The Job was too good for prime time. That it led to Leary's new hit series, Rescue Me, is small comfort. For faithful and frustrated viewers, it's great to have McNeil back on The Job. --Donald Liebenson
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Writing & pacing are perfect. Still ahead of it's time. Great ensemble casting. Note - on the few selectings available w/commentary, watch the episode first with no commentary. The overdubbing commentary is informative & hilarious, but drowns out the shows dialog at times. ABC executives were idiots to not get behind this show 100%.
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The Job complete season DVD set-- worth every penny, very funny especially the Anger sitcom, was sorry to see the show be cancelled.
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I really hadn't heard of "The Job" until they tried to make a final effort to get more viewers....and then it was cancelled. I knew from the couple episodes I had seen that I would be buying the series as soon as it came out.
If you're a "Rescue Me" fan then you'll recognize several of the same actors are in both series (Not usually to the same extent as they wer in The Job) The humor from the job transferred easily into Rescue, but The Job was basically a comedy where as Rescue is ... Read More
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This was a gift for my grandson who is a big fan of Dennis O'Leary. He watched it and really enjoyed it.
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Anybody who is a fan of Dennis Leary's hit show "Rescue Me" will love this show. It's simply hilarious. Great cast and each episode is enjoyable.
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