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Summary: Profiler - season one
Comment: With all the seasons coming after 1, this is the best season and the most realistic one.
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Summary: Profiler - Great watch!
Comment: This was a great show when I watched the original episodes on tv. I am really glad they are available on DVD. Its a great companion to Law & Order SVU which is another favorite.
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Summary: Muy buena serie ... pero
Comment: Excelente serie, con todo lo que debe tener el genero, muy buena primer temporada.
En cuanto al DVD, deja mucho que desear. No tiene opciones de idiomas, ni subtitulos en español, por lo que la unica opcion es mirarlo en ingles.
Lo mas triste es que no salio el pack en otras regiones. Por lo que es imposible ver la serie si no hablas ingles. Una lastima, una gran serie, que no podemos ver.
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Summary: Wonderful show.
Comment: I had never watched this show on television but it sounded interesting. I got season one and starting watching and I was hooked. I now have the other 3 seasons and can't wait to see what happens next. I really enjoy the characters on this program, they are very likable. Will recommend this to my friends.
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Summary: PROFILER has a fan following for good reason. . .
Comment: Now that the overall prices have been lowered and you can easily find good used copies of these box sets, PROFILER seasons 1-4 are well worth adding to your video library. As with other A&E box sets, the extras are not plentiful, but at least we have almost all episodes of the PROFILER series on DVD, and the missing material can be found on cable and the internet.
What started as the weekly TV version of SILENCE OF THE LAMBS and (especially, in terms of style) David Fincher's SE7EN, found its own groove with a very good cast and creative writing. The Jack of All Trades arc kept a tension throughout the first three seasons (although I was disappointed in the final confrontation between Ally Walker and Dennis Christopher), and when Walker left the series, one more season barely scraped the ratings, even with crossover help from Michael T. Weiss as THE PRETENDER. In the commentary on the final episode on Box Four, we learn that they were trying to set up a new arc for Season Five, introducing a new Super Villain named Damien Canaris (whose voice sounds a lot like Paul Williams. . .). Canaris was supposed to be a ghost inside the FBI, one of those people "who knew where all the bodies were buried, because he buried most of them", but since the ratings for Season Four were fairly anemic, NBC pulled the plug. Too bad, because it may have been interesting. It sounds like the producers of PROFILER were heading in the direction of THE USUAL SUSPECTS. . .Keyser Sose, anyone?
Overall, I did enjoy PROFILER, in both incarnations. Its strengths outweighed its weaknesses, and, yes, its sense of style influenced many current programs like CSI. And it was great to see the always solid Robert Davi get a regular series to show his stuff. After years of playing mostly heavies (especially a particularly nasty turn giving Timothy Dalton's James Bond a hard time in LICENCE TO KILL), his Bailey Malone was the kind of cop I would be proud to work alongside.
As far as the actual DVD presentation, the picture is grainy on the episodes but not the bonus material, so I will assume that is in the original NBC/Universal negatives. The sound is best heard through headphones, as the Stereo mix is quite good and atmospheric, and headphones bring out all the sometimes low dialogue. The episodes are all in full frame, as they were originally presented on NBC. A few episodes throughout the four sets have commentary, but as I said in the beginning, A&E is not known for voluminous bonus features.
So enjoy PROFILER. It's a pretty good rollercoaster of a series.
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