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Note: This review is not about the show but about the product A&E is delivering to us Homicide Fans. Season Six is--and always will be--my absolute favorite.
First off, NO SUBTITLES or CAPTIONING for the hearing impaired. Second, the sound quality is less than perfect as is the picture quality which shows its age with muddy colors, faded backgrounds.
To add insult to injury, the selection menus are not user friendly. Once you've completed watching an episode, the menu does not go back to the main but to the menu from which you selected the episode in the first place.
Lastly, THE EPISODES ARE SHOWN OUT OF ORDER!!!! Blood Ties 1, 2, and 3 and Subway are on the first disc when actually three other episodes came after Blood Ties 3.
Boo on A&E for releasing such junk. I foolishly bought Homicide Seasons 1&2 for my collection but have rented the rest from Netflix!
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i have watch all 6 seasons and they are great... buy em
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Season 6 ends with the shooting of Luther Mahoney which sets up the internal investigation that arcs through season 7. If you can only afford to buy a couple seasons, make sure you go for 6 and 7 purely becasue of the incredible depth that the actors show during this conflict. "Homicide" was the best drama on network television in my lifetime, and these episodes are a microcosm of the dark, gritty world that we used to see every Friday night on NBC.
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Personally, as a HUGE fan of Homicide: Life on the Street, I feel that the penultimate season was the least pleasurable season besides the final season, 7. Despite the intention of Homicide to focus on an ensemble of homicide detectives, it was clear in seasons 1-5 that Frank Pembleton and Tim Bayliss were the primary focus. That focus is not so prominent in season 6. It seems that a large focus is on former auto theft cop turned homicide detective Paul Falsone. (Let's go back and say that the 'cliffhanger' to the previous season, 5, with the whole 'rotating shift' nonsense was ludicrous) I think Jon Seda was not up to the caliber of acting we were used to with the uncanny Andre Braugher or menacing Yaphet Kotto.
Maybe it is just tough for this Homicide fan to glom onto the new crew of pretty boy Paul, sexy Laura Ballard and the judgemental Stu Gharrty (can we get a spell check on this?).
But, all said and done, episodes as brilliant as Subway stand out and still made Homicide one of the best shows on tv at the time!!!!
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While it's difficult to call Homicide: The Complete Sixth Season the best season of this Peabody Award winning series, it comes pretty darn close with a three episode story arc that ranks among the best and the classic episode The Subway featuring guest star Vincent D'Onofrio (Men in Black, Law and Order). Kellerman (Reed Diamond) exits this season amid allegations that his killing of a prominent drug lord wasn't "clean" and, ultimately, his colleagues turn away from him including his partner Lewis (Clark Johnson). The bloody shoot out of the grand finale ends the sixth season with a bang. While we once again have the departures of many cast members (including the superb Andre Braugher and Michelle Forbes) at the conclusion of this season, we also have many new and interesting characters introduced.
Like the previous sets, the sixth season looks very good on DVD. Keep in mind that this series was shot on 16 mm film and that the grainy look of the series was, indeed, intended. That said, A&E have done a marvelous job of transferring this classic series last great season to DVD. The sound has solid presence as well.
We get the full length PBS documentary Anatomy of a Homicide which highlights the making of the classic episode The Subway. One of the best stand-alone episodes the series produced, we get behind-the-scenes footage of the shooting, interviews with cast and crew members and a discussion of how the episode was structured. It's one of the best extras that A&E has licensed for this series.
There's a single commentary track but it's a great one; we get feedback from both director Gary Fleder and writer James Yoshimura on The Subway. Sure, there could have been more commentary tracks but what's provided (along with the documentary) makes this an outstanding set. I would have liked to have a commentary on the final episode of season six but clearly A&E stretched its marketing budget as far as it could to provide interesting extras for this season.
The last great and essential season of the series has two deluxe extras in the form of the full length documentary and commentary track on The Subway. The image and sound quality are truly exceptional given the source material and the packaging shows the great care A&E has shown on previous sets.
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