Should lose stars for being incomplete
Added 3/11/2009
If I didn't love this show that I never heard of before - I'd drop 2 stars because it should be the whole series but...it really is a 5 star show.
I've hesitated on trying this out because who wants a few episodes of anything? But I finally broke down since it's so cheap and decided a few good hours of TV (if it's any good) would be worth it. Now I watched them all in one night which I don't usually do and I'm so disappointed that there's no more episodes.
TV Powers that be are just as stupid about DVD releases as they are about creating, marketing, and cancelling great shows.There are more cancelled shows on DVD that have turned out to be excellent TV watching than there are TV shows that air for years and are worth watching. Perhaps if you market a shows and then leave it in a time slot and actually air it with weeks of interruption-some of these shows would have lasted like they should have.
A few episodes of some great shows, the first season and then nothing or the first 2 season and then years go by before anything else comes out. Then the great shows of the past and not so distant past that never get released- where's the logic?
Every season it seems the great shows are cancelled because they are too interesting? too complicated? Too different? and the PTB just don't get it meanwhile, the junk that all looks the same, has all the same type characters come back for another season. With exceptions of course.
I'm glad I bought, now I have yet another show to hope for a full release in the future.
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Why would I buy this?
Added 3/7/2009
I loved this show when it originally aired and I would have really enjoyed to watch it again. In its entirety! Why would I buy a release that only includes some sample episodes? What moron had the asinine idea to release a half baked DVD like this one? I can't begin to describe how disappointed I am. Somebody else please release this (I mean all of it) soon!
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Unbelievably dumb marketing by Bravo
Added 2/27/2007
A fantastic show? Yes. But as others have noted, what in the world is the point to releasing THREE of NINE episodes (counting the double-length pilot as one episode)? Not only is it one-third of the total that rabid fans want, but it's actually episodes 1, 5, and 6 instead of 1, 2, and 3! Is it any wonder consumers are so angry at the studios over how they release their content? If you buy this consider yourself warned. This disc is nothing but a tease. If you insist on being frustrated just rent it from Netflix. That way every time you see the disc one your shelf you won't feel like an idiot for having bought it knowing that you're getting a small hodgepodge of a great show.
The show may be "Brilliant but Cancelled," but Bravo is "Wrong-headed and Absurd."
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EZ pieces
Added 1/19/2007
I like EZ Streets. It was gritty, It was complex and it had a soul that many crime shows never had. Suddenly, as it come on TV... it was canceled after eight episodes (here is only three episodes outta eight!).
Written and created by Oscar Winner (for Crash) Paul Haggis, someone should tell Universal DVD division-if you say something is BRILLANT , Show me all the episodes! I agree it was, not let me have it!
I will give it FIVE stars when there is a FULL collection of EZ Streets...Otherwise I leave the review at TWO stars
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
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Rationed greatness leaves you starving for more
Added 1/16/2007
EZ Streets foreshadowed the wave of complex dramas on HBO, TBS, Fox and others. For those who saw EZ Streets, HBO's Sopranos was derivative and less satisfying. Unfortunately, CBS didn't know what it had or how to build a show that requires rapt attention or a means to catch-up on what went before. The revenue lost by not having a complete story to sell on DVD (after the example of 24 and others) is staggering.
Creator Paul Haggis went on to movie acclaim (Million Dollar Baby and Crash), but EZ Streets was a pinnacle of imagination and execution that is still unmatched on network or cable television. From the casting and acting, to use of music, through compelling cinematography, to a dark, layered and complex storyline, EZ Streets is as good as I have ever seen. After ten years it is still fresh in my mind and the touchstone; it is my all time favorite television series. I still want to "follow the keys," the one lead left for Ken Olin's Detective Quinn to follow.
The EZ Streets ensemble members are largely dramatic leads and stars now or behind the camera applying lessons learned. It is a measure of the quality of the cast how many have thrived since EZ Streets' short life. I see John Finn on Cold Case and hear Captain Geary's standard parting, "I've got a thing." I still wonder, on which side of the law was Geary? Joe Pantoliano aka Joey Pants moved from character actor to lead as the small time hood Jimmy Murtha. Carl Lumbly was back in a similarly complex story in Alias, but he was first a beautifully corrupt and manipulated mayor in EZ Streets. Ken Olin directed almost a quarter of the Alias episodes. He learned from EZ Streets how to tell a long story arc with cliffhanger episodes (and learned the hard way the need for a weekly recap). This was one of the last roles for Rod Steiger as Quinn's disgraced and broken down father. There are more, like Debrah Farentino's sexy and smart Theresa Conners, Mike Starr's big presence, and Sarah Trigger as a fragile, breaking, drug addled and desperate mother. I regularly see actors that first caught my eye here. Mark Isham's haunting theme music must also be credited.
Quality through and through, EZ Streets is a stunning achievement. The quality made it all the more heartbreaking that the cast and crew were never allowed to finish the story.
EZ Streets became the definition of "brilliant but cancelled." Like CBS with the show, the DVD is overly stingy, offering only three episodes of the nine filmed. The logic of the DVD offering is especially strange since the target audiences (rabid fans of EZ Streets and Haggis) know darn well what they are missing. I'd pay more for a full collection on DVD. I'd pay a fortune to know the never filmed end of the story.
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