Flashpoint: Season 1 [Blu-ray]

Flashpoint: Season 1 [Blu-ray]

Flashpoint is an emotional journey following the lives of a police tactical team, the Strategic Response Unit (SRU). The SRU is a team of cops like no other — they’re the elite, the blueblood of the force. High risk is their business, and life-and-death stakes are their world. This action-packed series highlights both the tactical and the psychological aspects of their police work and examines the emotional toll of bearing constant witness to the extremes of human distress.

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Stargate SG-1: Season One [Blu-ray]

Hollywood’s film archives overflow with the carcasses of dismal movies based on lame ’60s and ’70s television shows, a syndrome that shows no sign of abating. But here’s evidence that the reverse effect, turning a movie into a TV series, can have surprisingly positive results. Indeed, based on the 21 episodes produced for the first season of Stargate SG-1, it could be argued that this show is significantly better than the 1994 feature it’s derived from. The central conceit of the original Stargate–the existence of an artificially created “wormhole” through which one can travel to different worlds light years away from Earth–was an intriguing one. In seizing on the obvious possibilities for expanding on that premise, series executive producers-writers Jonathan Glassner and Brad Wright have smartly retained some of the film’s basic elements (its amalgam of myth and theoretical hokum, or the ongoing clash of wills between scientists and soldiers), while adding a variety of fresh ideas

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