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<strong class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Five Blu-Ray Review</strong><p>At the peak of its popularity, <em class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em> was never more confident or assured than its fifth season. Garnering weekly viewers higher than most primetime shows, even...

<strong class='bbc'>Enlisted: The Complete First Season DVD Review</strong><p>The Fox television network doesn’t have the greatest track record for giving its shows time to build an audience. For every <em class='bbc'>Bones, Fringe,</em> or <em class='bbc'>Brooklyn Nine-Nine, </em>there are...

<strong class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation: Season Seven</strong><p>The final season of <em class='bbc'>The Next Generation</em> is solid Trek, though clearly isn’t the height of glory for the series, as the creative and imaginative quality showed the strain of many years producing...

<strong class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation Season Six Blu-Ray Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em>’s Sixth Season saw the return of James Doohan’s Scotty, a return of The Borg, Riker going insane, Picard falling in love, Troi falling under an unpleasant...

<strong class='bbc'>Extant: The First Season Blu-ray Review</strong><p>With the Oscar and Emmy-winning duo of Steven Spielberg executive producing and Halle Berry starring, there was much pre-premiere buzz surrounding the futuristic science fiction CBS series <em class='bbc'>Extant</em>. Despite...

<strong class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Turkey Day Collection DVD Review</strong><p>The <em class='bbc'>Mystery Science Theater 3000 Turkey Day Marathon</em> was a fixture on Comedy Central in the 1990s, devoting an entire day to some of the best episodes of the series, often with...

<strong class='bbc'>Brooklyn Nine-Nine Season One DVD Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season One </em>walks its perps onto DVD with the first season of the Fox comedy featuring Andy Samberg. The 3-disc collection presents all 22 episodes in anamorphic picture and 5.1...

<strong class='bbc'>Bates Motel Season 2 Blu-ray Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>Bates Motel: Season Two </em>stuffs its episodes onto Blu-ray with this 2-Disc set. The continuing series gets another solid presentation in the picture and sound department, with a small group of bonus features...

<strong class='bbc'>The Compleat Al DVD Review</strong><p>Long out of print, <em class='bbc'>The Compleat Al</em> first appeared on Showtime in 1985, later to be released on Beta, VHS, and Laserdisc by CBS/Fox. This mockumentary on “Weird Al” Yankovic very loosely follows his early career, tying...

<strong class='bbc'>Batman: The Complete Television Series Blu-ray Review</strong><p>The 1966-1968 <em class='bbc'>Batman</em> Television Series makes its long awaited debut on home video with a deluxe Limited Edition Blu-ray box set (also available on SD DVD). Bat fans have been bat-clamoring...

<strong class='bbc'>Star Wars: The Clone Wars - The Lost Missions Blu-ray Review</strong><p>The sixth season of <em class='bbc'>Star Wars: The Clone Wars</em> had intended to be twenty-two episodes long, but only thirteen episodes were completed, and they’re contained in this sixth season set...

<strong class='bbc'>Pee-wee&#39;s Playhouse: The Complete Series Blu-ray Review</strong><p>Named one of the top 25 cult TV shows of all time and winner of 22 Emmy Awards, <em class='bbc'>Pee-wee’s Playhouse</em> remains one of the most imaginative and creative series ever produced for Saturday...

<strong class='bbc'>Sgt. Bilko - The Phil Silvers Show: The Complete Series</strong><p><em class='bbc'> </em><em class='bbc'>The Phil Silvers Show </em>(original title: <em class='bbc'>You'll Never Get Rich</em>) is one of the iconic television comedies of the 1950s. The winner of eight...

<strong class='bbc'>Enterprise: The Complete First Season Blu-Ray Review</strong><p>In the waning days of <em class='bbc'>Star Trek: Voyager</em>’s seven year run on the United Paramount Network (UPN), Executive Producers and show runners Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, having been asked to keep...

<strong class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds</strong><p><em class='bbc'>The Best of Both Worlds</em> in many ways represents the best of what <em class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em> gave to television. Fans of the series will remember with great clarity...

<strong class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation: Redemption Blu-ray Review</strong><p>The advent of CBS’s investment in remastering <em class='bbc'>Star Trek: The Next Generation</em> seasons for release in the Blu-ray high definition format has brought with it an interesting opportunity to...

<strong class='bbc'>Star Trek: Enterprise - Season Two Blu-ray Review</strong><p><em class='bbc'>Star Trek: Enterprise</em> returned for a second season among slowly deteriorating ratings and some disenchantment from fans. Spending early episodes in familiar ideas, such as an alternate ‘first...

<strong class='bbc'>The 100: The Complete 1st Season Blu-ray Review</strong><p>Similar to the concept of the Will Smith film, After Earth, WB's The 100 takes place in a post-apocalyptic future in which the Earth has been abandoned following a war that left the planet soaking in radiation. The...

<strong class='bbc'>American Horror Story: Coven Blu-ray Review</strong><p>It's another seventeen Emmy nominations for the third season of FX's <em class='bbc'>American Horror Story</em> as the miniseries scored another record-breaking ratings year for the franchise. Subtitled <em...

<strong class='bbc'>Perry Mason Movie Collection: Volume 3 DVD Review</strong><p>Because the ratings continued to be so high for their series of Perry Mason TV-movies, NBC commissioned three films each to be made during the calendar years of 1990 and 1991. Thus Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, and...

<strong class='bbc'>Penny Dreadful: The Complete First Season Blu-ray Review</strong><p>A gothic series that's as macabre as <em class='bbc'>American Horror Story</em> though with less unwieldy storytelling and utilizing classic characters from the canon of Victorian horror tales mixed together...

<strong class='bbc'>Perry Mason Movie Collection: Volume 4 DVD Review</strong><p>Nearing the end of his career, Raymond Burr continued to crank out TV-movies featuring himself as his most famous character, astute criminal attorney Perry Mason. The fourth volume of six films covering the years...

<strong class='bbc'>The Mentalist: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review</strong><p>The producers of CBS' hit procedural <em class='bbc'>The Mentalist</em> finally brought an end to their long-extended storyline with serial killer Red John during the sixth season of the show (two seasons too late...

<strong class='bbc'>How I Met Your Mother: The Ninth and Legendary Final Season DVD Review</strong><p>Some television programs because of ongoing popularity and consistency in producing ratings continue long past the point of their productive peak. <em class='bbc'>How I Met Your Mother</em> is...

<strong class='bbc'>Supernatural: The Complete Ninth Season Blu-ray Review</strong><p>The battle between Heaven and Hell rages on in Supernatural’s ninth season, and the Winchester Brothers continue to get caught in the angel and demon crossfire.</p><img...

<strong class='bbc'>Castle: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review</strong><p>ABC’s <em class='bbc'>Castle</em> is one of the breeziest and most ingratiating of all the network procedurals, and its sixth season has turned out to be one of its strongest yet. A terrific collection of baffling...

<strong class='bbc'>Arrow: The Complete Second Season Blu-ray Review</strong><p>American television's most brooding superhero suits up for a second exciting if erratic season on the CW's <em class='bbc'>Arrow</em>. While not distinguished by notable dramatic writing or always believable...

<strong class='bbc'>Marvel&#39;s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: The Complete First Season DVD Review</strong><p>When you're a television offshoot of perhaps the biggest movie franchise going at the moment, you know you're going to be in for a lot of scrutiny. <em class='bbc'>Marvel’s Agents of...

<strong class='bbc'>The Goldbergs: The Complete First Season DVD Review</strong><p>One of the surprises of the 2013-2014 television season was <em class='bbc'>The Goldbergs</em>, a semi-autobiographical, and loving, look back at growing up in suburban Philadelphia the 1980s. If it weren’t for...

<p><strong class='bbc'>Chicago P.D. Season 1 DVD Review</strong></p><p><em>Chicago P.D.: Season 1</em> books its first season onto DVD with this set, which became available last week. This slick, shallow police drama has sprung from the matrix of <em>Chicago Fire</em>, embracing the same formula...