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This hard hitting release from the landmark drama Breaking Bad includes all 16 episodes of the show's fifth and final season, following the epic story of a cancer ridden teacher who, in desperation, discovers his uncanny talents in the horrifying world of meth.
 
Customer Rating
5 out of 5
5
Excellent!
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
I love this show!!! Mostly because it reveals the human side of us all---the once authentic protagonist acting only on behalf of his family, becomes the antagonist acting on behalf of his medical diagnosis and his own missed opportunites. Yet, he still behaves as if to procure for his family a legacy that will sustain his family in his absence. And that is where his motivation changes. Knowing he has already provided monetary susbstinance for his family to employ after his demise, he becomes Heisenberg, becomes enraptured with his past failings---i.e. college days---and then seeks to retribute and reclaim what his life was supposed to be about. He siezes the opportunity to become what he believes he was destined to become: A talented visonary destined to change the world--and become rich, thus safe. Mr. White, the ordinary, struggling, honest high-school professor, seizes the opportunity to gain cash, alot of cash, to beset his previous acknowlegement of financial failure, despite his academic and intellectual prowess---because he knows, as all of our society knows---that security is based on monetary acheivements--not scholary ones. Sad. Sad that this falecsy is true---in our culture we verbally promote the learnings and study of chemistry, mathematics, sociology, and art, but---none of us in the business of business will ever acknowlege these proficiencies of knowledge unless we can find a way to make a buck of it. Hence, it is totally natural that Mr. White became Heisenburg. Mr. White became a murderer, a liar, a cheat, a monster... not because he was one to begin with, but became one because he desired the American dream: Recognized for his intellect, knowledge, and his love for his family. Walter White is a profile of us all. He is not the villian so much as he is the villian in all of us who dare to venture beyond the barriers that prevent us all from becoming what we were promised, and were lied to about: Recognition for our efforts, security for our family, and acknowlegment of the work we displayed our entire lives. This show is extraordinary in revealing this. And I beleive this is why so many of us tout its excellence---not because it is purley great writing, great acting, or great profiling (which it is all of these things) but because it strikes a cord in every American human being that what we we told, what we were promoted to become, is not what is truly wanted, admired, or desired: Money and power. Sad but true.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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4 out of 5
4
Very good non-stop thriller
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
This is a non-stop thriller with plenty of action, suspense, murder, and fights. Liam Neeson plays a drunk and depressed air marshal superbly. He is on a six hour flight from New York to England flying in first class. He receives a text message on his phone from a passenger who he is unable to identify until the end of the film. The person knows all about Neeson the air marshal and his daughter. He demands one hundred and fifty million dollars or he will kill a passenger every twenty minutes. Although others could not see it, this man knew that Neeson was smoking in the plane bathroom. The person on the phone is smart and manipulative. He is able to manipulate people on the ground and passengers on the plane to think that Neeson is hijacking the plane, including setting it up that the money would go to an account in Neeson’s name. Neeson needs to stop the hijacker, find out how people are being killed, what does the person want to harm him, and if the person is doing what is being done for the money or a different reason.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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This set contains all six episodes from the initial season of AMC's zombie series The Walking Dead starring Andrew Lincoln as Rick, a small-town Georgia cop who helps lead a band of survivors after he wakes up from a coma to discover that a zombie epidemic has swept across the country.
 
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4 out of 5
4
Instant zombie classic
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
Long live the slow zombie that moves in herds. I'm loving the return to the Romero zombie (though 28 Days Later and Dawn of the Dead's fast zombies are some of my favs as well). As for this episode, I initially thought there was a bit too much set up early on in the episode but the final 15 mins of this show really built on that slow exposition. I'm looking forward to seeing what the season has in store for us. Also, not a review of the episode, but I really love buying just the shows I want to see using Amazon. This is my second purchase of a season of one of AMC's stellar original programming pieces (first purchase was mad men). I don't miss cable a bit.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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This set contains all eight episodes from the fifth season of Breaking Bad, the award winning drama series starring Bryan Cranston as a former chemistry teach diagnosed with terminal cancer who becomes a meth dealer.
 
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5 out of 5
5
So much tension!
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
It looks like Walt and Jesse are moving forward. In the background, Mike makes a clever move while tightening up a loose end and bringing himself into the fold. The growning dark rationalizations fed to Skylar are deepening the rift. Can/Should Skylar compartmentalize and find some "middle" ground, as if the word middle even exists in this context? Or, can Walt move to remaining mute and letting her settle matters in her own mind? On both matters, probably not, the rift is driving a significant slice of the drama in this series.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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The third season of The Walking Dead finds former police officer Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) and his ragtag group of Zombie-apocalypse survivors hopeful that a prison will offer true protection from the masses of undead. Though the fortified walls do, indeed, provide them with a certain level of security, the group faces a very real threat from the living. Though Andrea (Laurie Holden) and Michonne (Danai Gurira) find temporary shelter within a seemingly Utopian community led by a man who refers to himself as "the Governor", time reveals he is a control-obsessed sadist hiding many secrets of his own.
 
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5 out of 5
5
One of the best
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
How do you even begin to explain this series without it sounding like just another zombie fad? I love, love, love this series and the third season, for me, is when it all really kicks in. Somewhere along the line, you forget that it's another "end of the world" story and just dig in and enjoy the interactions between the characters. Who would ever have thought that Darryl would become what he has (no spoilers from me)? I love that the characters are flawed. Even better, everyone is real looking--by that, I mean that we don't have some former pageant queen trying to play an average character. I'm not saying that any of the actors aren't attractive, but they look like folks you'd meet in the streets and not some airbrushed, implant stuffed, brain-dead bimbo (or himbo).
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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This release compiles all thirteen episodes from the debut season of Helix, a science-fiction series that focused on a team of scientists from the center for disease control who travel to the Arctic in order to investigate a possible outbreak of a deadly virus, only to uncover a much larger threat to humans.
 
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3 out of 5
3
Great idea, not very well executed
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
According to the SyFy Channel press release, "Helix is an intense thriller about a team of scientists from the Centers for Disease Control who travel to a high-tech research facility in the Arctic, Arctic Biosystems, to investigate a possible disease outbreak, only to find themselves pulled into a terrifying life-and-death struggle that may hold the key to mankind’s salvation or total annihilation. However, the lethal threat is just the tip of the iceberg, and as the virus evolves, the chilling truth begins to unravel." Made more terrifying as it could come true! ( Was SARs man-made?)
However, the lethal threat is just the tip of the iceberg, and as the virus evolves, the chilling truth begins to unravel. Billy Campbell (Killing Lincoln, The Killing) stars as Dr. Alan Farragut, leader of the Centers for Disease Control outbreak field team called upon to investigate and control a potential outbreak. Hiroyuki Sanada (The Wolverine, 47 Ronin) also stars as Dr. Hiroshi Hatake, director of Arctic BioSystems and its mysterious viral research program. Helix also stars Kyra Zagorsky (Supernatural) as Dr. Julia Walker; Mark Ghanimé (Emily Owens, M.D.) as Major Sergio Balleseros; Jordan Hayes (House at the End of the Street) as Dr. Sarah Jordan; Meegwun Fairbrother as Daniel Aerov; Catherine Lemieux (White House Down) as Dr. Doreen Boyle, and Neil Napier (Riddick) as Dr. Peter Farragut. Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica, Outlander), Steven Maeda (Lost, The X-Files) who is also showrunner, and Lynda Obst (Contact, Sleepless in Seattle) are Executive Producers. The 13-episode series is produced by Tall Ship Productions, Kaji Productions and Lynda Obst Productions in association with Sony Pictures Television. Prolific director and producer Jeffrey Reiner (Friday Night Lights) directed the premiere episode, which was written by creator and co-executive producer, Cameron Porsandeh.
Lotsa Suspense similar to LOST. Hinting at a conspiracy, intrigue, all refer to surreptitious or unknown covert schemes to accomplish some end,
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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Season 4 of the Prohibition-era drama opens in February 1924 as Nucky (Steve Buscemi) makes peace with New Yorkers Masseria (Ivo Nandi) and Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg), moves into the abandoned Albatross Hotel and, coincidentally, spreads his wings with a potential real-estate bonanza in Florida, where he's smitten with a saucy barkeep (Patricia Arquette). Back in Atlantic City, Chalky (Michael K. Williams) runs the boardwalk's Onyx Club, though the mysterious Harlem intellectual Dr. Narcisse (Jeffrey Wright) challenges his North Side reign, and Eddie (Anthony Laciura) finally gets a promotion. In Philadelphia, Eli's son Willie (Ben Rosenfield) dives in over his head at college; while in the Midwest, Nelson (Michael Shannon) pulls double duty for Chicago mobsters Capone (Stephen Graham) and O'Banion (Arron Shiver), and a wandering Richard (Jack Huston) reconnects with his roots. With Shea Whigham, Brian Geraghty, Ron Livingston, Margot Bingham, Anatol Yusef and Domenick Lombardozzi.
 
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4 out of 5
4
Great stories
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
Saw all 12 episodes in one sitting. This is round 4 with the same strong characters who survived the last round. Some new characters, too, who fit right in. Terrific storylines with great payoffs. Here are my favorite characters in this series: Nucky, always good, boy he knows how to lie. Al Capone, this guy is ready to explode big time. Nelson Van Alden, again great fun watching this guy snap. Eli, we hope these brother issues get resolved. Arnold Rothstein, unsinkable. Chalky, love him, love him. Eddie Kessler, wow, he steals the show. Gillian, out to outsmart everybody. Richard Harrow, on a mission-quest and we finally get to see how handsome he is. Daughter Maitland, what a breath of fresh air, great voice, gorgeous close-ups. Sally Wheet, a real sweetheart who can throw a punch (played by a favorite actress who I didn't recognize until she smiled). Willie, potential rising star within the family. Bill McCoy, a rum runner worth Googling to read about his incredible career. Knox, utterly hateful with no redeeming qualities, hope a piano falls on his head. And then there's Dr. Valentin Narcisse, the diabolical impressario, this guy is really something else. Spend a day watching the entire series, then sleep for 12 hours.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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2 out of 5
2
A boring version of the Hunger Games
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
I think you can tell how good this was by the speed with which it went to Netflix, Amazon, video, etc.. I know I wish I had the two hours of my life back that I wasted watching this video. Like David Letterman used to say, "People Are Hungry For Entertainment," and they must be. Poor character development, acting talent that was nonexistent, and a story? who knows. I think the writers were trying to develop something of a Hunger Games theme, but they appear to have missed the mark badly. And, there wasn't anyone with the strength of a Jennifer Lawrence to carry this story.
Obviously, this movie must have appealed to someone, maybe the Young Adult market. However, I think that what this story lacks is the breadth of appeal that the Hunger Games had, it drew you in. This was too focused on the YA market, it lacked convincing execution and did not have the complexity to draw in a more mature audience. Of course this is why I recognize it as a "copy of", an "imitation of", a "knock-off of". I know I won't be viewing part II, that is if there is a part II, but I'm pretty sure there will be.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
No, I would not recommend this to a friend.
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This release includes all 24 episodes of the brainy sitcom The Big Bang Theory, following the romantic and practical misadventures of two genius physicists, who are at the top of their fields in science, but at the bottom of the totem in playing the field. The two continually attempt to bring their social skills into par with their laboratory skills, and living across the hall from a charming blonde actress gives them plenty of motivation.
 
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5 out of 5
5
Nerd humor at its best
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
Much credit goes to Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady as originators, producers and chief writers of this excellent series. They have managed to sustain the quality over seven years, thanks in large part to great cast led by Jim Parsons. Parsons plays the uber-nerd of uber-nerds in a group that is composed (apparently) of non-teaching researchers at Cal Tech. His character, Sheldon, is the funniest of a generally excellent cast in a constant series of riffs on their super intelligence, social awkwardness and nerdy obsessions (e.g. all TV science fiction).
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Finally cleared after being falsely accused of murder, Bones (Emily Deschanel) reunites with Booth (David Boreanaz) and the forensics team. Elsewhere, psychopath Christopher Pelant continues his murder spree, much to the consternation of Bones and Booth. Complicating matters further is the arrival of Booth's mother, who has returned to his life after a 24-year absence.
 
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5 out of 5
5
Getting back to its roots
on December 20, 2014
Posted by: CasualBestBuyShopper
Great bones getting back to original plots that made it popular in the beginning. Now the appeal of family and children will draw a different type of viewer probably making it more popular than ever. They need to tone down Bones arrogant attitude, it is starting to grate on my nerves and is no longer funny, there is definitely something different about the way she is coming across. She's pushing her bosses around which would not be tolerated in real life and was not in the earlier series. She is more rude and it is coming across as deliberate rather than naive.
My Best Buy number: 0568039368
I would recommend this to a friend!
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