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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: 20th Century Fox
Salesrank: 8276
Released: July 18, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Taken from his home and raised with other genius children at a mysterious place called the Centre, Jarod who with the uncanny ability to pretend and easily assume the identity of any person, escapes as an adult in order to use his abilities to help the pu
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 18-JUL-2006
Media Type: DVD
Description of The Pretender - Season 4:
After eluding agents from the nefarious Centre for a good three years, Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) finds himself back at the shady research facility (that kidnapped him during his youth) in the opening episode of the fourth and final season of The Pretender. Held against his will, Jarod is caged and routinely tortured by Miss Parker's (Andrea Parker) calmly evil brother, Lyle (Jamie Denton, who would go on to bill himself as James Denton on Desperate Housewives). But, as the opening to each episode points out, Jarod is a pretender--a genius who can become whoever he wants to be. He can pass himself off as an FBI agent, surgeon, or drug addict. But what he wants more than anything else is to be free from the Centre and search for his family. By the end of the premier episode, Jarod has escaped the Center (again) and is helping those in need. In this final season, which ran on NBC in 1999-2000, Jarod finds love with a woman who has cancer, Miss Parker and Broots (Jon Gries) have an affair (albeit in a Raymond Chandleresque dream sequence where Miss Parker says of their unlikely tryst: "Do you hear that Broots? Pigs are flying."), and Raines (Richard Marcus)--carrying a bible as he drags around his oxygen tank on a squeaky cart--claims to have turned over a new leaf. Of course, nothing is as it seems.
This four-disc set includes all 19 episodes. (Look for Erika Christensen ( Traffic) in "Corn Man A Coming.") As much as it is a show about righting wrongs, The Pretender is also a drama about revenge. Jarod has no problems crossing the line and doses out an eye-for-an-eye method of justice. Carve up a soldier and try to pass his murder off as a suicide? Guess, what, buddy? Jarod's going to do the same to you. Of course, Jarod isn't a murderer and he never actually lets anyone die. But he does scare his victims into confessing. Never mind that the taped confessions wouldn't hold up in court. It still makes for good drama. As for the photogenic Jarod and Miss Parker, the writers have created an intriguing codependent relationship that's rooted in love, admiration, and just a touch of fear. Their lives are intertwined--especially after they discover a young man to whom they're both related. The final episode is a tad anti-climactic, leaving viewers wondering who survived a horrific explosion. Of course, the answer is to be found in the two made-for-TV movies released after the series ended. --Jae-Ha Kim
The Pretender - Season 4 Reviews:
Not like the rest of the season sets. 
2009-12-30 - I came in a semi-translucent dvd case, not a cardboard marquee like seasons 1-3.
Otehr than that, no complaints other than the double-sided discs
freeze up 
2009-11-16 - This is the fifth Pretender dvd order I have made. All of them have froze up and skipped at least two or three places
The Pretender 
2009-09-23 - I always liked the series because it did a wonderful job of portraying a charecter who overcame injustice to become champion for justice. The charecters are well cast and very well played, the scripts engaging, and always there is the element of delight in simple pleasures and the joy of discovery. I was very sorry to see the series end prematurely. I was pleased to be able to watch it again at my own convenient times and without interuption. The only issue I have is that not all the episodes would play and I don't yet know how to have Amazon replace the defective discs.
Great season, but sad for no season 5
2009-07-15 - For Season 4 Jarod is recaptured by the centre or more like Mr. Lyle. The very first episode, "The world is changing", definatly shows how it changed. The show got even darker the in season three. I've already bought this season and watched the bonus features which are really good telling what happened behind the scenes of the show. The cliff hanger at the end of the series is sad because to realize there wont be a season five to finish. The show had and has a huge fan base and will always be a great series to me. Check out this series from season one if you like seeing Jarod get back at the bad guy for the good guy.
The Pretender Season 4
2009-01-03 - The dvd series was good! But, as a good series, it just had to create more questions...... But I would recommend it over and over again for the Pretender junkies like myself. What a pity that it did not go into a 5th series. Lets hope the 3rd movie will answer all the questions, so that we can lay it all to rest......
