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List Price: $26.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 15817
Released: August 15, 2006 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Something new is lurking in the Earth’s oceans, and now you can be part of the mystery as all 15 Season One episodes of the spectacular series, Surface, emerge on to DVD for the first time ever! When young oceanographer Laura Daughtery (Lake Bell) discovers a massive underwater creature, her obsession to uncover the origins of this dangerous "unidentified species" will lead her and others on a mysterious adventure through the darkest, deepest parts of the sea and the most sinister and shady places on Earth. The fate of the world is in their hands - they just don’t know it. Including deleted scenes and phenomenal special effects, the amazing series that People magazine calls "a show with some Spielbergian tricks of suspense" is now the must-own DVD set for every fan
Description of Surface - The Complete Series:
Surface lasted one season on NBC before cancellation, but Surface: The Complete Series on DVD will keep the show's exciting, Spielbergian suspense around for a long while. The primetime drama, involving several characters--in different parts of the world--all having similar brushes with fantastic creatures, instantly draws comparisons to Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Add a government conspiracy (complete with a cover story to force one community's evacuation) to prevent the public from learning of the existence of a previously unknown life form, and the parallels with Close Encounters grow thick. But it's not a problem: the many twists and turns in Surface's far-ranging storyline, and the nature of the species that slowly becomes a factor in the survival of the human race, are compelling on their own terms.
Created by twin brothers and television writers-producers-directors Josh and Jonas Pate (L.A. Dragnet), Surface stars rangy beauty Lake Bell as oceanographer and single mom Dr. Laura "Dee" Daughtery. While doing some research in a submersible at the bottom of the sea, Dee discovers a seemingly bottomless pit leading to astonishing depths in the Earth. But she also bumps into a sea monster that emanates electrical charges strong enough to wreak havoc with her vessel. Meanwhile, a Louisiana-based insurance salesman, Rich (Jay R. Ferguson), is traumatized when he sees his brother dragged away by a similar creature, and a 14-year-old boy, Miles (Carter Jenkins), raises one of the beasts after it hatches from an egg. Throughout all this, a scientist (Rade Sherbedgia) and a heavy-handed national security agent (Ian Anthony Dale) are trying to unlock the mystery of the species, which appears to be growing in number at the same time strange forces are affecting the oceans. Naturally, there's a story behind the story--government and corporate shenanigans and all that. That stuff gets a little tedious and, truth be told, a couple of the show's protagonists are among the most unlikable people seen in series television in a long while. But despite its premature end after a mere 15 episodes, Surface finally offers an original, unsettling, and even surreal vision of the world going through apocalyptic transformations. The final image of the final show lingers in the imagination a long time. --Tom Keogh
Surface - The Complete Series Reviews:
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2009-10-25 - Surface kept you fasinated, I couldnt stop watching episode after episode, very well thought out. Great special effects with a bit of humour thrown in every now and again. Very suspensful and all the actors were great. I highly recommend this to everyone, I wish there were more episodes, mayby one day?
Surface - this is only the beginning...
2009-10-04 - Excellent! But with a cliffhanger ending to Series One, we need more. And if the producers are actually reading this - please pay attention to all that have said similar things before - when are you releasing Series Two, then Three? In fact, if the only problem is content, I'd be more than happy to put a basic storyline continuation together for you.
More, please - and soon!
Smokingly good show with great special effects 
2009-09-17 - The plot of this short-lived, one-season, unfinished series revolves around three characters: a boy in North Carolina; a female marine biologist in California; and a male insurance salesman in Louisiana. In the beginning, each character has a unique experience with a new undersea lifeform and, over time, they are all drawn together.
The boy, Miles (played by Carter Jenkins), essentially carries the show. He finds an egg in the water, takes it home to the family fishtank and gets an interesting and dangerous new pet with which he shares a unique bond. His relationship with the creature is believable, interesting and also touching. The marine biologist, Laura (played by Lake Bell), and the insurance salesman, Rich (played by Jay Ferguson), come together quickly in the show and they both do a decent job but, as one reviewer said, Jay Ferguson comes off a bit like a graduate of the David Hasselhoff School of Acting. His southern accent doesn't help his case. To paraphrase Stephen Colbert--who's from the south but didn't want to sound like it--"You might have a southern accent AND be smart, but you sure won't sound like it." That was from a serious interview with CBS Sunday Morning.
At certain points, the show did get a bit slow, particulary when Laura and Rich were checking things out in a homemade diving bell, but the show changes scenes frequently enough that you won't feel too bogged down.
What I loved about this show is that it really shows you what a deep, dark and creepy place the ocean really can be, especially with MONSTROUS creatures swimming around in it. "Surface" pretty much gave me all I could have wanted in a sea-monster story. Did I get to see a COLOSSAL sea creature rise up from the deep and swallow a boat? Yup. Did I get to see hundreds of freaky creatures swimming in the deep? Yup. Did I get to see a hole in a lake swallow up everything and drain out all the water. Sure did. Watching "Surface" will make you think twice about going deep-sea fishing, or even swimming near the shore.
Several episodes in, the "previously on 'Surface'" recaps begin, but instead of just having relevant clips patched together, there's a voiceover by, I believe, someone by the name of Joe Cipriano, who has an odd voice. This isn't detrimental to the show, but I did find the voiceover interesting.
This show, like Invasion - The Complete Series, had a great storyline, great implementation, good special effects and a decent cast. In short, it's everything episodic science-fiction TV should be. The only thing it didn't have (much like "Invasion") was the support of its network.
Great Story about a boy and his "fish"
2009-07-13 - What a wonderful story. It was frightening, but the story line was well thought out. I enjoyed it. My family enjoyed it, it gave us something to think about. After all, we are not alone, and they are not coming from Outer Space. These have always been here.
suspenseful and entertaininng
2009-07-01 - Great series of underwater adventure - kind of hokie at times - but very easy to watch and we all enjoyed it as a family!!! Rare these days to find a show that is kid friendly and entertaining.
