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I loved Homicide during its NBC run. The dingy offices, plain-Jane actors with cheap suits and frequent failures to convict or capture or obtain confessions really rang true.
Homicide was the opposite of NYPD Blue, showcasing Baltimore, a very distant second to New York; eschewing sexy nudity scenes for clautrophobic interrogations in The Box; delving deeply into dirty politics at the top of the Baltimore PD hierarchy.
The use of deliberately shaky and shifty camera work signified the chaotic and pressure filled work of the murder police. Homicide is the parent of HBO's The Wire, also set in Baltimore and even grittier and grimmer than its elder.
This Megaset is a great treasure. Every single Homicide episode, including the Law & Order cross-overs and the made for TV movie are included. The box is a cleverly designed file cabinet with index cards to separate the various Season DVDs.
I jumped on this item when Amazon briefly offered it for $97.00, waited as the first shipping deadline passed and was very pleased to receive it four months before the newly established deadline.
Long Live Homicide!
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I ordered this item in June with a ship date of early July. Then the ship date was later July, then it was August and now it's mid-October! While I think we would have really enjoyed watching the complete series I have canceled the order. Six months for a DVD set is waaaaaay toooooo long to wait.
So beware - if you order this today you might get it for Christmas.
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I have always loved crime especially film noir. Modern crime is great and where the Brits have it all over the American TV makers. However, there are some crucial exceptions. This is one of them. Along with Hill Street Blues and NYPD Blue this is the classic American cop show. And this DVD set is the best way to savour the storylines without inane ads and weekly intteruptions. The cast is top notch, the writers are the real stars and the direction and camerawork are seamless and totally effective.
Without divulging anything about the series, I would recomment buyers grab this set and get set for a great ride, which will last you many months.
The DVD set is beautifully put together and although not perfect does rise above the level of many current boxed sets. It may improve even more when it goes to Blu-Ray etc and the sound quality is improved...
If you get one boxed set this year then get this one. Great value when I bought it for 35 disks and postage to Australia was only $7...
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"Homocide Life on the Streets" rules. It is set in Baltimore my home town so I could be a bit biased... NAW! Baltimore was getting better for a time but Since Mayor now Governor O'Malley left Baltimore is slowly sinking becoming again the same cold hearted, murder mill, slaughterhouse comedy it used to be. Homocide life on the streets faithfully told blood soaked stories of abject stupidity some Baltimorons live with a gun toting professional apomb second to none. Among the vast well dressed expensive car driving largely abeit uneducated upper crust of Baltimore's murderous street smart ghetto elite IQ's, never equal or exceed the caliber of weapon used plying their art of death. Baltimore's disgarded dime a dozen ignorant youth use Baltimore streets to engage in a drug crazed death sport of mindless fun and frolics for scant druggie profits that assure Baltimore streets will remain awash in a seemingly endless sea of red glistening blood, white heavy chalk lines, and flashing blue police lights until the center of Hell swallows the city whole.
Homocide life on the streets does a pretty good job of capturing the basic rank horror of Baltimore urban thugged out street life. Homocide Life on the Streets also captures on DVD the quirky odd ball Balmer Maryland Hon Red Neck angst and Proud Black Blue collar working men that together are the backbone of this city set in a ever violent 7th pit of hell. Baltimore is a nice city in a Urban Ghetto Fabulous sort of way and Homocide Life On the Streets shows the contrast between Baltimore's Ghetto want-to-be big city glitz juxtaposed against Baltimore's tiny town blue collar southern down home old bpoy roots. Unfortunately it is impossible to show on film how truly amazingly stupid mindless and senseless the violence on Baltimore streets really is but Homocide Life on the Streets tries and succeeds right well. Problem is the true picture of Baltimore violence is too insane to be believed, by sane thinking folk in the rest of the country. Script writers could not imagine the strange sicko psycho things that breed a rampant disrespect for human life that is an everyday occurance in Baltimore for real. If any writer did accurately imagine how pathetic Baltimorons are when it comes to having the most basic civilized respect for human life their scripts would be considered as real logical and believable as a Salavdor Daly painting featuring those melting clocks.
I brought Homocide Life on the Streets the entire show all nine seasonsbecause, it did a good job of capturing nice chunks but by no means all of Baltimore's continuing raging insanity on video. If you like watching a city gone wild buy Homocide Life on the Streets. Trust me watching the sanitized Baltimore of Homocide Life on the Streets on TV is the next best thing to living \ dying here. Baltimore should have a new slogan... Baltimore Where Death is Not Just Our Living its Our Number One Growth Industry!
I know this won't get posted by the way. Sometimes I just indulge myself with truth.
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The Shield and all the Law and Order shows owe their existence to Homicide. The cast is incredible and the set is well worth the price.
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