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<b>Ray Donovan: Season Three Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>The problems just never seem to stop for the title character of <em class='bbc'>Ray Donovan</em> in now his third season of domestic and corporate mishaps. Though the drama is strong throughout the season’s twelve episodes, there’s something...

<b>The X Files: The Complete Season 2 Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Growing in popularity, critical acclaim, and its own inner complexity throughout season two, <em class='bbc'>The X Files</em> became one of the most discussed network shows in the nation. And the Television Academy certainly took...

<b>The X Files: The Complete Season 1 Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>One of the first dramatic series on the fledgling Fox network to hit it big nationwide was Chris Carter’s <em class='bbc'>The X Files</em>, the creator’s throwback to the spooky, unexplainable events suspense series that as a...

<b>Extant: The Second Season Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>After serving up a first summer season that earned both middling reviews and tepid audience response, CBS renewed <em class='bbc'>Extant</em> with the promise of a restructuring of the sci-fi drama with more emphasis on action and suspense...

<b>McHale&#39;s Navy: The Complete Series DVD Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'> </em></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p> <em class='bbc'>McHale's Navy</em> is one of the iconic television shows from the 1960s. All four seasons were previously released in single-season sets, but now Shout! Factory...

<b>Kingdom: The Complete Season 1 DVD Review</b><p><p>Watching television in the “old” days (say, the 1960s) used to be such an easy proposition. You had three choices, and that was it: no home video, no DVRs, no cable networks, no streaming. Today, in addition to hundreds of cable channels...

<b>Game of Thrones: The Complete First Season Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>HBO has gone back and remixed its most popular dramatic series of all time in Dolby Atmos, the first television series to do so. That is the only major difference between this limited edition set of...

<b>Game of Thrones: The Complete Second Season Limited Edition Steelbook Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>As with the <em class='bbc'>Complete First Season Limited Edition Steelbook</em>, this <em class='bbc'>Complete Second Season</em>, in content, is identical to the first Blu-ray release, with the...

<b>Toy Story That Time Forgot Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>Any opportunity to place the beloved <em class='bbc'>Toy Story</em> characters into an alien environment that tests their skills and moxie is an opportunity worth pursuing, and <em class='bbc'>Toy Story That Time Forgot</em>, last year’s...

<b>The Andy Griffith Show: Season 1 Blu-ray Review</b><p><p><em class='bbc'>The Andy Griffith Show</em> was one of those show business anomalies that was a smash from the very beginning. Starting life as an episode of <em class='bbc'>The Danny Thomas Show</em> where cocksure show biz vet Danny...

<b>American Horror Story: Freak Show Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>A freak show would understandably seem a perfect setting for the fourth season of FX’s hit <em class='bbc'>American Horror Story</em>, and indeed it does prove grandly atmospheric and creepy. True to the natures of the previous seasons...

<b>Penny Dreadful: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>The Victorian literary characters along with some other people newly invented for the show who inhabited Showtime’s <em class='bbc'>Penny Dreadful</em> during its popular first season are all back to thrill and titillate us...

<b>CPO Sharkey: The Complete Season 2 DVD Review</b><p><p>One gets the impression that the suits at NBC never had a lot of faith in the Don Rickles program <em class='bbc'>CPO Sharkey</em>. It began its two-season run as a mid-season replacement in December, 1976 and it was not even on the...

<b>The Last Man on Earth: The Complete First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Spoilers aside, Will Forte may be playing the title role in <em class='bbc'>The Last Man on Earth</em>, but he most definitely isn’t the last man on Earth, nor is the planet lacking any women either. In Fox’s successful...

<b>Modern Family: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Six seasons into its run and the five-time Emmy winner for Best Comedy Series <em class='bbc'>Modern Family</em> has another hilariously entertaining season. Is it as good as the earlier seasons were? It’s debatable, and most...

<b>Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume One DVD Review</b><p><p>With the out of print Rhino sets often selling for multiples of their original list price, Shout! Factory has begun re-issuing those sets, starting with <em class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000: Volume One</em>, with updated...

<b>The Goldbergs: The Complete Second Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The favorite TV family of the 1980s returned for a second season of <em class='bbc'>The Goldbergs</em> on ABC, sticking with the formula that worked well in its first season, but still allowed for some growth in the series...

<b>CSI: Cyber - The First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The fourth entry in CBS’ lucrative <em class='bbc'>CSI</em> franchise leaves the world of physical forensic evidence and dives deeply into the world of device hacking, a world of cybernetics where rules don’t apply and rogue programmers have a...

<b>Star Wars Rebels: Complete Season One Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>An animated program taking place in the <em class='bbc'>Star Wars</em> universe some five years before the events of <em class='bbc'>A New Hope</em>, <em class='bbc'>Star Wars Rebels</em> is crammed full of the things Jedi fanatics...

<b>Descendants DVD Review</b><p><p>The Disney Channel has mounted several made-for-TV musicals (<em class='bbc'>High School Musical, Camp Rock, Lemonade Mouth</em>) over the last decade that drew tremendous audiences and had significant cultural impact for a time, and its latest <em...

<b>Walking Dead The Complete Fifth Season Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>The Fifth Season of <em class='bbc'>The Walking Dead </em>premieres on Blu-ray to coincide with the premiere on AMC of the spinoff series <em class='bbc'>Fear The Walking Dead</em>, which will lead into the premiere of the 6th...

<b>Castle: The Complete Seventh Season DVD Review</b><p><p>Despite two miscalculations for story arcs during its seventh season on the air, ABC’s hit procedural <em class='bbc'>Castle</em> otherwise remained one of the breeziest and most ingratiating of all network mystery series. The cast is as...

<b>Scorpion: Season One Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>A brain trust made up of hyper-geniuses solving complex emergency scenarios in and around Los Angeles gives CBS’ first season hit drama <em class='bbc'>Scorpion</em> its unique place among the network’s long array of hit procedurals. Based on a...

<b>Elementary: The Third Season DVD Review</b><p><p>The producers of CBS' hit series <em class='bbc'>Elementary</em> seem to have an incessant desire to continually shake up their series. Never content to establish its procedural formula and simply let it run, in each of its three seasons on the...

<b>NCIS: New Orleans - The First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>CBS’ highest rated new show of the 2014-2015 season was <em class='bbc'>NCIS: New Orleans</em>, an entertaining if very familiar spin-off of the network’s most popular drama <em class='bbc'>NCIS</em>. Set in The Big Easy with an...

<b>NCIS: The Twelfth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>With its popularity unwavering and its writers continuing to delve into the psyches of each of its core characters, CBS’ number one drama <em class='bbc'>NCIS</em> had a sterling twelfth season. Delivering wonderfully involving puzzles each week...

<b>Agatha Christie&#39;s Poirot: Series 13 Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>For over a quarter of a century, actor David Suchet has been essaying his most iconic role, that of Agatha Christie’s gloriously eccentric Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the five productions contained in Series 13 of this...

<b>Dig: Season One Blu-ray Review</b><p><p>While investigating the death of a young girl in Jerusalem, FBI agent and Interpol liaison Peter Connelly (Jason Isaacs) uncovers a conspiracy where several different religious sects, with help from archeologists, are trying to accelerate the...

<b>The Good Wife: The Sixth Season DVD Review</b><p><p>After its stellar fifth season which surely ranked as one of the most outstanding single seasons in the history of American television, CBS’ <em class='bbc'>The Good Wife</em> really had nowhere to go but down. To its credit, the show...

<b>How to Get Away With Murder: The Complete First Season DVD Review</b><p><p>ABC’s highest-rated new series for the 2014-2015 season was <em class='bbc'>How to Get Away With Murder</em>, the brainchild of Shonda Rhimes protégé Pete Nowalk who brings to the project all of the positives and...