Will_B
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Anyone else a fan of this show? It is called MI-5 in the US, but its proper title is Spooks - that is what the show is called in the UK and it is of course a reference to spies.
I expect that it's pricing - in the stratosphere compared to most TV-on-DVD - has kept it from being the kind of succesful import it could be.
I bought the first season (or "series" as our brothers overseas call it) mainly because of the guest starring role of Anthony Head ("Giles", the mentor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and was impressed by the series as a whole.
Finally saved up enough to buy the second season, and though it has started off slow, by the fourth episode it appears to have nearly returned to the quality level of season one.
An incidental note about the DVDs. They have the silliest menu screens ever. A spy wearing a balaclava breaks into an office and sits at a desk - and then you, the viewer, select items on the desktop to play either the episode or the bonus materials. But what makes this little skit a disaster is the guy wearing the balaclava didn't know how to wear it, so he has his nose hanging out of the eye-slot! Good disguise there, Mr. I Can See Your Nose. Some spook!
What are other people's impressions of the seasons? Is there a season three on air or coming to DVD? What is it about British shows not putting makeup on their actors? Is this a good or a bad thing? Etc.
I expect that it's pricing - in the stratosphere compared to most TV-on-DVD - has kept it from being the kind of succesful import it could be.
I bought the first season (or "series" as our brothers overseas call it) mainly because of the guest starring role of Anthony Head ("Giles", the mentor of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and was impressed by the series as a whole.
Finally saved up enough to buy the second season, and though it has started off slow, by the fourth episode it appears to have nearly returned to the quality level of season one.
An incidental note about the DVDs. They have the silliest menu screens ever. A spy wearing a balaclava breaks into an office and sits at a desk - and then you, the viewer, select items on the desktop to play either the episode or the bonus materials. But what makes this little skit a disaster is the guy wearing the balaclava didn't know how to wear it, so he has his nose hanging out of the eye-slot! Good disguise there, Mr. I Can See Your Nose. Some spook!
What are other people's impressions of the seasons? Is there a season three on air or coming to DVD? What is it about British shows not putting makeup on their actors? Is this a good or a bad thing? Etc.