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List Price: $49.99 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 5384
Released: March 3, 2009 |
| Our Price: $33.95 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/03/2009 Run time: 1072 minutes Rating: Nr
Description of Nash Bridges: The Second Season:
The second season of Nash Bridges literally hits the ground running with an exciting rooftop chase that kicks off the opener, "Internal Affairs," and the pace rarely flags through episodes that deftly combine some genuinely exciting action set pieces, humor, and involving character-based drama. With his good ol' boy charm, Don Johnson is in his element as San Francisco Police Inspector Nash Bridges, a great cop, but whose personal life is a mess. The money episode this season, and one essential for fans of the series is "Wild Card," which reunites Johnson and costar Cheech Marin with their former partners in crime and comedy, Philip Michael Thomas and Tommy Chong. It's just like old times as Johnson and Thomas recapture the Miami Vice vibe (there's even a cigarette boat chase). As for Cheech and Chong, there are sly laughs at their former stoner personas. Anyone under the influence of the team in its 1970s heyday can't help but get a warm case of the munchies with a "Dave's not here" reference. Nash Bridges proved to be a great career launching ground. Series creator Carlton Cuse and fellow writer Shawn Ryan, featured in a season two "Roundtable" included as an extra, went on to Lost and The Shield, respectively. A pre-Clueless Brittany Murphy steals her scenes in the tense episode, "Night Train," as a dangerously unstable leader of a gang of thieves who take Nash and company for a wild ride. Barry Bonds, looking suspiciously less pumped up, is featured in the episode, "The Wrecking Crew," as a superstitious baseball player who hires Nash to find his treasured stolen car. On the home front, James Gannon takes a more prominent role this season as Nash's father, who moves in with his son in the episode, "Zodiac," a season benchmark, in which Nash recruits his retired mentor to help catch a Zodiac copycat (in this episode, the series loses the services of Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa's Lt. A.J. Shimamura). Nash's relationship with his college-bound daughter, Cassidy (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) provides some of the season's most memorable moments. In the episode, "Gunplay," Cassidy is accidentally shot, putting a relentless Nash on the case of a spoiled rich gun dealer (Matthew Lillard). Nash Bridges was not as hip or trendsetting as Miami Vice, but its entertainingly offbeat tone arguably holds up better. --Donald Liebenson
Nash Bridges: The Second Season Reviews:
Excellent Quality 
2009-10-30 - The quality of the set is excellent. I continue to enjoy the series. If you have enjoyed the show, you will not be disappointed.
nash bridges ROCKS
2009-09-09 - i have the whole collection of miami vice and now i have the 1st & 2nd. serious of nash bridges .....i think don johnson ROCKS
Second Season Twice as Good
2009-08-30 - Don Johnson and Cheech Marin are perfectly cast as Nash Bridges and Jose Dominguiz. The drama, the comedy and yes, sometimes the sadness makes this one of the best police dramas,including the present days series. The setting which is San Francisco, is the perfect backdrop for the stories.
Nash Bridges (Don Johnson) is handsome, very sexy,and sometimes shy. It is easy to understand why the twice divorced Nash is attractive to so many women. Joe Dominguiz (Cheech Marin) is the perfect counterpart to Nash. Joe always has a scheme, which more often then not,colapses, but usually includes Nash. The stories have depth and hold ones interest. I am very anxious for season 3.
Replace the songs? Forget it. 
2009-08-10 - For years I looked forward to this show being released on DVD. When it was I didn't buy it right away because I was afraid this show would suffer the same fate a lot of popular TV shows get when they make the transition to DVD. The songs you heard on the show when it originally aired disappear, most often replaced by generic muzak. I'll settle for my bootleg edition of Nash Bridges before I buy this crappy release which does exactly that. I don't think I'm in the minority here either. The Miami Vice seasons probably wouldn't have sold half as much if the music had been tampered with. As Nash himself would say "Save your money, bubba". I'm disappointed.
Same nonsense, cut up and music changed 
2009-07-27 - I can understand the issue with music copyrights but the omission of the original score in each episode takes away from the value of this series. For season two, they did it again. At least on our copy. Plus, again, scenes are cut and it plays much like the syndicated version on USA network. If you don't mind that, it will be fine because the series is superb regardless of that but not as good as the original, uncut, unaltered version. Why, oh why can't we have the original form??? Miss it terribly. Should you buy it or not? Uh, yeah, but....
