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List Price: $99.95 | | Label: A&E Home Video
Salesrank: 58174
Released: October 28, 2003 |
| Our Price: $10.48 |
| Used Price: $7.98 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Though its pedigree was top-drawer, the fine CBS police series Brooklyn South never really clicked with primetime audiences (or, according to critics of the network, never got a chance to click). All the same, the program offered interesting possibilities for its famous creators to decant old wine into new bottles. Steven Bochco and his lead writer on NYPD Blue, David Milch, produced this show about uniform cops working a tough New York City beat while coping with the professional and personal fallout of sundry catastrophes. If the series didn't establish, as NYPD Blue did, a new benchmark in stylish television from the start, it certainly shocked audiences into high-stakes drama with a premiere in which several key characters are slaughtered during an ambush by a rooftop sniper.
This made for a hell of a way to introduce a series cast, i.e., by establishing most of them as survivors, but Milch and Bochco made inspired use of ethical and emotional ripples from that horrifying event to inform the rest of Brooklyn South's first (and only) season's storylines. Not surprisingly, Brooklyn South's ensemble approach and busy episodes (comprised of multiple, character-driven stories) most closely resemble the form and balanced tones of Bochco's classic Hill Street Blues. As such, each installment can be as ghoulishly funny (Michael DeLuise's officer Phil Roussakoff, moonlighting at a funeral home, causes some consternation when he takes a nap in a coffin) as it is brutal (the usual murders, suicides, etc.) and emotionally stark (love as a sure path to despair).
Brooklyn South had its problems (too many characters), which were compounded by network ambivalence. This DVD set, however, will keep an abbreviated but worthy project from disappearing into oblivion. --Tom Keogh
Brooklyn South: The Complete Series Reviews:
Love Bochco series 
2009-11-09 - I am new to Brooklyn South but took a chance on the series because of Steven Bochco. I was a huge NYPD Blue fan, so I thought I might enjoy this series. So far, it's really entertaining and I'm glad I bought the DVD set. The service from Amazon was top notch as always.
Good show, Good DVD 
2009-06-11 - CBS made an error when they canceled Brooklyn South, but I'm glad it is out on DVD. I was able to get a used set for $10. that was as good quality as the $50. original DVD's. I didn't realize how much I had missed the episodes especially the character of Jack Laury who is accused of beating a perp to death in the station house. The actress who played Mrs. Landingham on West Wing (I can't remember her name, Kathryn something) is edgy and tough as a mother of sons who are criminals. Get this DVD. It is well worth the money. Hopefully, networks will learn to give shows a chance before they are canceled.
O MY GOD!
2009-04-28 - SHOULD OF CONTINUED FOR 7 OR 8 YEARS! MAYBE LONGER I MEAN LONGER!! VERY VERY GOOD SHOW! SO MANY IDEAS COULD OF BEEN USED! THE CAST ROCKS! LOOK AT WHERE THEY ARE TODAY. SHOULDA WOULDA COULDA WE ALL MAKE MYSTAKES. YEE HA!!
brooklyn south 
2008-09-27 - buyer beware is right. i bought brand new from amazon the first time and like the person said before me all the disc had fingerprints and marks on them. the picture would begin to break up and stop. i sent the set back to amazon and received the new package. all the disc have fingerprints and marks on them. I have not had time to play them yet.I will report on how the dvds play. I am very upset with the producers of dvds. they do not check the quailty of the product. but to amazons credit they do make it right when you have a problem with a purchase.
Buyer beware - defective DVD's
2008-06-25 - This is a good show that has been ill-served by defective copies. I bought two new, sealed copies of "Brooklyn South" from Amazon sellers and each disc in each set is marked and smeared. Maybe it's a bad coating, I don't know, but the discs are unplayable. The best bet may be to purchase a "Like New" or "Very Good" copy; at least those have been inspected and perhaps proven to be playable.
