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Waking The Dead : Complete BBC Series 5 [2005]
by Waking the Dead
from 2 Entertain Video
starring Trevor Eve, Sue Johnston, Wil Johnson, Esther Hall, Félicité Du Jeu

Features:

• PAL

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0

• Thought provoking and sensitive.
  I have watched all of the seasons of Waking the Dead through Amazons rental service which saved me from so much disapointment from current TV offering at the moment!
  I did not hook into this first time around put off by Trevor Eves wooden performances and the bleak 'basement' they all seem to spend so much time in .
  However having watched them now I have good opinion of him and the group of actors who weave their charm and evoke concern and interest in what happens to them. Yes I did cry when... more info

• There is no discussion, this is a classic series
  Several things are already mentioned concerning Waking the Dead, the ongoing sublime series on Cold Cases with a stunning lead by Trevor Eve.
  But there are no doubts whatsoever in my mind: this is one of the best television series ever. I agree with others that the story whereas showing dead bodies is concerned tends to be under the influence of the fast lane shorties from CSI and that the Boyd character is not everybody's cup of tea. But hey, that's part of the multi-layer stories, giving that great... more info

• An excellent crime drama, unfortunately, there's a worm in the apple
  I have quite a collection of crime dramas DVDs, but if I had to vote, Waking the Dead would surely be somewhere at the top of the list. So there's the apple:
  What I really like about British TV dramas (among other things) is that an episode lasts way more than 40 minutes, and 40 minutes is surely not enough to solve a crime properly. What I really like about DVDs (among other things) is that you can watch the whole episode at one go. It would be torture to wait 24 hours or even a week for the second... more info

• A true classic?
  Waking the Dead is a series about a cold case unit dealing with previously unsolved crimes. This is an excellent platform for a crime story and the storylines throughout the entire series are, with a few exceptions, of very high quality. There are some detractors though. The production is problematic at times, the characters lack depth and I miss a touch of humour now and again.
  What production is concerned, from series 3 onward the producers began to focus on mutilated bodies and gory details in... more info

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