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Profiler - Season One
Episodes
Disc One: Insight, Ring Of Fire, Unholy Alliance
Episodes
Disc Two: Unsoiled Sovereignty, Modus Operandi, Night Dreams, Cruel And Unusual
Episodes
Disc Three: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, Shattered Silence, Doppelganger,
Learning From The Masters
Episodes
Disc Four: The House That Jack Built, Shadow Of Angels, Parts I And II, Film At
11
Episodes
Disc Five: Crisis, Blue Highway, FTX: Field Training Exercise
Episodes
Disc Six: Into The Abyss and Venom, Parts I And II
Stars:
Ally Walker, Robert Davi, Julian McMahon, Erica Gimpel, Michael Whaley, Roma
Maffia, Peter Frechete, and Caitlin Wachs
Writers:
Cynthia Saunders, Nancy Miller, Ken Solarz, Jean Gennis, Bob Lowry, Sibyl
Gardner, George Geiger, Jean Gennis, Phyllis Murphy, Larry Hertzog, Charles D.
Holland, Steve Feke, David A Simons, and Steve Feke
Directors:
John Patterson, Peter O’Fallon, P.J. Pesce, Sara Pia Anderson, Andy Wolk, Ian
Toynton, Ian Sander, Lewis Teague, Kevin Hooks, Carl Schenkel, Jack Bender, Matt
Penn, Michael Pattinson, Michael Lange, Dan Lerner, and James Whitmore, Jr.
Creator:
Cynthia Saunders
Co-Executive
Producer: Nancy Miller
Executive
Producers: Ian Sander and Kim Moses
Feature
length: 17 hours and 30 minutes
Extras:
Episode Commentary Tracks By Stars Ally Walker And Robert Davi, Profiles Of
Evil: Inside The Criminal Mind Episode Of A&E’s Signature Series American
Justice, Cast Biographies, and Photo Gallery
Languages:
English Stereo Sound
Subtitles:
N/A
Packaging:
Six Slim Keep Cases Within A Cardboard Slipcase
Chapter
Stops: 8 per episode
Sound:
Stereo Sound
Year
of Television Broadcast: 1996-1997/DVD Release: 2003
Home
Video Distributor: A&E Home Video
MPAA
Rating: Not Rated
Reviewer:
Mark A. Rivera
Blessed
with an uncanny ability to use the clues left at crime scenes to recreate what
happened in her mind’s eye, forensic psychologist Dr. Samantha Waters (Ally
Walker) is one of the FBI’s most valuable assets. However her life and career
were shattered when a nefarious serial killer she was “profiling” murdered
her husband. Sometime later Waters is called back into the Bureau by her mentor
Bailey Malone (Robert Davi) and subsequently forms the Violent Crime Task Force
(VCTF), which attracts the attention of her husband’s killer “Jack Of All
Trades.”
The
series, which ran from 1996 through 2000 was number one in it’s time slot on
NBC and developed a strong fan following. More grounded in reality and far less
brooding than similar programs that were running at the time, like
“Millennium,” “Profiler” has been considered a forerunner to the new
forensic dramas that have followed it such as “CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation,” which has helped bring the science behind crime solving to a
larger audience in general. What I still find ironic is that in as much as some
might note “Profiler” as a forerunner to “CSI” and “CSI: Miami” I
think they all are in debt to some degree to the feature films developed from
Thomas Harris’ novels like the 1986 Michael Mann film “Manhunter” and the
Oscar Winning “The Silence Of The Lambs.” Now of course the whole
“Lecter” trilogy is a part of pop culture, but before it was, the FBI as
well as other entities in law enforcement had been developing and following
techniques on profiling crime scenes long before the concept became vogue in
film and on television.
A&E
Home Video in conjunction with NBC has done a terrific job bringing
“Profiler” to DVD with this season one box set. With the exception of
episode 4 “I’ll Be Missing You,” which has not been included for reasons
not noted on the packaging, the other 21 episodes of the series’ first season
are delivered in what I think is one of the finest (1.33:1) television broadcast
aspect ratio presentations of a TV show on DVD on the market as a whole. Maybe
it is the stylistic lighting and whatnot used in the series or maybe I just like
gazing upon Ally Walker, but regardless “Profiler” looks sweet on DVD. The
English Stereo Soundtrack is also impressively full and surprisingly vibrant.
Series Stars Ally Walker and Robert Davi each provide their own separate episode
length commentary tracks for the pilot episode “Insight.” Walker discusses
her comfort with the character and relief that she could play a strong female
lead without losing her feminine manner, which she think helped to keep her
character both sympathetic and less cliché. Davi tends to pause more in his
commentary, but he is also more upfront about the series by touching upon the
political realities behind working on series television while also discussing
his research for the role and his own additions to make the character somewhat
different by adding a bit of quirkiness like the cowboy hat he wears when his
character is first introduced in the series pilot. Both commentaries are
informative and entertaining. Unfortunately they are the only commentaries on
the DVD and there are no other featurettes or interviews regarding the series so
this is really about as close as one gets to gaining an understanding of the
behind-the-scenes action that made “Profiler” come to life.
The
other extra features are on disc six and they include the episode of the A&E
series “American Justice” (43:11) that focuses on real life crime scene
profilers and their work, a short still gallery of publicity shots, and cast
biographies that list their month and day of birth, but exclude the year. Text
summaries for all 21 episodes accompany each show for viewers to read before
playing them. The main menu is animated while the subsequent menus are standard
interactive still frames that are easy to navigate. The 21 episodes are encoded
onto six dual layered DVD discs that come individually packaged in six slim keep
cases within a sturdy cardboard sleeve.
“Profiler:
Season One” DVD box set will debut on Tuesday, July 29, 2003 from A&E Home
Video and I think this is a great set worth checking out.
©
Copyright 2003 By Mark A. Rivera
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Profiler - Season One