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I AGREE with the opinions and reveiws here; and would like to thank Hertzog, Dunne for this DVD set. WHAT TOOK TEN YEARS!! This is top drawer televison, and screenwriting. I only give it 4 stars due to lack of budget for the program; it gets 10 stars for effort. A masterpiece; I love this show- a HIGHLY WORTHY predecesor to "Le Femme Nikita" and "24"..........same producers.
Great PRICE- what a steal. Really enjoyed seeing the Carrie Ann Moss and Maria Bello performances again. I became a hard core Bruce Greenwood fan here, he's incredible. Yes, co-interview on this DVD set show us that co-star Megan Gallagher feels the same way. And, LOVE Portland, Oregon.
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I'm about to introduce my wife to NWM for the first time. She listened to me for the last five years going on and on about how great this show is. When I saw this show in 1995, I was only 20, in college, and couldn't wait to get home to see it. Sure, I had to endure Star Trek: Voyager first while that show hopelessly wrote itself into the ground. But here was a show that kept the mythology alive. While X-Files would wait to November and February sweeps months to continue it's Black Oil/ Alien mythology, here, every Monday on Nowhere Man, Thomas Veil was searching and finding clues to his lost identity. It takes a lot of effort to continue a mythology week to week, which requires writers to create a Bible for the show, as a reference of all of it's secrets, so they can keep continuity. It's tons more work for a writing team. When you see how well they did it on NWM and now Lost, you truly begin to understand how X-Files really jumped the shark and missed the boat. If you haven't seen Nowhere Man, treat yourself. It is ten years old, and I don' know how well it's aged yet, but if you choose this over Saved By the Bell: The College Years, then I pity you.
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I remember loving this show back in the day, but I could only vaguely remember bits and pieces of it. Now that I have the DVDs, I'm devouring them! I think this show would be right at home next to hit current shows like Lost and Prison Break, what with the over-running story arc and the above-par writing and acting. Bruce Greenwood is an amazing actor!
I keep wanting to compare this show to The Pretender, but unlike Jarod, Thomas Veil actually DOES spend a lot of his time investigating the people who stole his loved ones from him. I loved Jarod, but the guy was easily distracted ;-D
And now, to the DVD set. I didn't hold out great hopes, seeing as it was an early UPN series that was cancelled after one year. Maybe it was my low expectations, but this set blows others out of the water! Interviews, commentaries, promos, tons of great, great stuff. And the box itself is very uniquely done.
I also like how they show the deleted and extended scenes. It's hard to explain what they did, but I've never seen them presented in quite this manner. It's very, very smart and allows you to see exactly what was cut from where (hint: They're labeled as "Rough Cut to Final Cut" on the DVDs, not as "Deleted" or "Extended Scenes." It took me a while to figure out that's what the feature was. ;-D).
All in all, I give the show five stars and the DVD set five stars, a rarity!
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After taking and publishing a mysterious photo showing an execution in a third world country, photographer Thomas Veil (Bruce Greenwood)finds his life ripped apart. He's having dinner with his wife Allison (Megan Greenwood from "Millennium"), goes to the bathroom and comes back to find her gone. When he comes back at different couple is at his table and his wife isn't there. When he asks Geno the owner where she is he doesn't know who his wife is, who he is and why he's complaining about his table being taken. When he tracks her down he discovers his wife no longer knows who he is and there isn't any evidence he's every existed--except that he knows who he is. He remembers his past. That's all that remains.
An intelligent, clever TV series that lasted only one season on UPN (coupled mysteriously with "Star Trek: Voyager" a big mistake on UPN's part)"Nowhere Man", like "The Prisoner" may have been too good for TV, ahead of its time or had the wrong audience for UPN. It would probably have been coupled better with Fox's "The X-Files". Now 10 years later with shows like "LOST" presenting mysteries and conspiracies like "Nowhere Man", the show's time has finally come.
This excellent release from Image Entertainment includes all 25 of the first season episodes. As extras we get commentary tracks including video commentaries by Bruce Greenwood, producer Peter Dunne and creator/writer/producer Lawrence Hertzog. The video commentaries whomever is doing the commentary frequently presented in splitscreen with the episode itself. There are also traditional audio commentaries (they're separate though)as well as promos and interviews with Bruce Greenwood, Hertzog, Megan Gallagher, director Ian Toynton and others.
Image quality varies from quite good to very good.It's clear that the show was remastered from the original broadcast videotapes and not the finished filmed episodes themselves. My guess is that Image ran into the same problem here that they did with "The Twilight Zone:1985/6" where the studio (Buena Vista) wouldn't pay or allow them to go back to the original film masters to remaster them. Regardless, Image has done a stellar job with the source material. There is some minor issues with interlace errors and the image can occasionally look soft as well but, on the whole, the show looks extremely good. The discs with the video commentaries are, essentially, holding four episodes so there are some digital artifacts such as aliasing that occasionally crop up but, on the whole, the series looks excellent. Dialogue and music come across crisp and clear on all the discs in this set providing fans with a good looking good sounding set. With nine discs in the set it doesn't feel as if too many has been crowded onto too few discs. All discs are in the dual layered/single side format. Having had to suffer through some of Universal's dual sided discs (which have had problems with quality control and also are more likely to be damaged), I'm happy that this has been presented in this deluxe format.
We also get Greenwood's promo outtakes for UPN, a couple of fine featurettes "Networking" where Hertzog discusses with former UPN Executive Mike Sullivan why this terrific critically acclaimed series got to air. Sullivan comes across as intelligent and a sharp guy. He approved the show hoping that UPN's launch wouldn't be like the WB or other stations where low brow material dominated the airwaves. He also notes the challenges of a start up network but that's why he was willing to take a big risk on "Nowhere Man". "Fact or Fiction" features a mysterious former CIA operative discussing conspiracies in the real world as compared to the real world. He also discusses just how easy it would be to cut the tether to our identities away and lose who we are in the world. While it isn't to the extreme of "Nowhere Man" it is certainly frightening. We get a four page booklet that gives a synopsis of the plot and the special features for that particular episode. Also included are deleted/extended scenes compared to the finished version scenes done in a picture in picture format. Packaged similar to "Moonlighting" and other shows with plastic inserts holding the DVDs, this set doesn't use tape to hold the sets together but hinges which is a big improvement over previous sets. An exceptional job from Image at putting together a deluxe treatment of this important cult series.
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I never looked forward to an hour of television more than I did each new episode of "Nowhere Man." Its dark, paranoid stories excited me much more than those of its spiritual cousin, "The X-Files." (Mark Snow composed the creepy music for both series).
The genius of this show was the abandonment of the long-time television formula whereby a drifting hero travels from place to place, helping others and leaving each better or happier than he found them. Granted, it's a formula that works. It kept us entertained with such shows as "The Fugitive," "The Incredible Hulk," and, dare I mention, "Starman." What was so special about "Nowhere Man" was the inversion of this formula. In spite of Tom's desire to help others, he destroys the lives of nearly everyone he meets along the way. It was brilliant!
Paired malignantly with Star Trek: Voyager, it was not destined to last. UPN did not respect its fans, and despite being the second highest rated show on the network (after Star Trek), it died an untimely death. I still feel betrayed when I remember that "Nowhere Man" was replaced by the ever-so-classic, "Home Boys from Outer Space."
For years I have bemoaned the loss of this show and have praised it to all who would listen. Now, with the release of the DVD's, those of us who are initiated can share this amazing program with any and all who would watch.
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