Lovejoy - The Complete Season 2
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Actor: Charlotte Edwards, Ian McShane, Patrick Murray, Terence DackombeBrand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 624 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-01-08
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner
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Summary: 5 Stars
We've been a fan of Lovejoy for years and are grateful the series is coming out on video for the USA finally!! Never saw this season before and really enjoyed it.
Summary of Lovejoy - The Complete Season 2
Ian McShane starred in wholesome family fare before he became a weathered expletive-drawling character on HBO's DEADWOOD. LOVEJOY is a case in point--this British TV show stars McShane as an antiques dealer who pursues a sideline career as an amateur detective. McShane's character (named Lovejoy) spends most of the show trading in antiques looking for women to seduce and cracking crimes and the formula proved immensely popular with U.K. television audiences who couldn't get enough of this loveable and down-to-earth character. This release includes every episode from the second season of the show.System Requirements:Running Time: 624 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/BBC Rating: NR UPC: 794051423023 Manufacturer No: E4230Ian McShane has the best eyes on television--they turn from a mischievous twinkle to a baleful, heart-stopping glare in an instant. McShane achieved fame in the U.S. as foul-mouthed saloon owner Al Swearengen on Deadwood, but long before then he'd made his mark as lovable but slippery antiques dealer Lovejoy, whose gift for sifting true articles from false is matched only by his personal magnetism--for trouble. The second season of this British series beings with Lovejoy in prison for transporting stolen goods. Naturally, he'd been set up, and the episode darts back and forth in time as Lovejoy and his compatriots--boozy partner Tinker (Dudley Sutton), resentful flunky Eric (Chris Jury), and the woman Lovejoy wishes was more than a friend, Lady Jane (Phyllis Logan)--figure out the who, what, and how of the con game. Though the show is best categorized as a mystery, only a few episodes feature any serious violence, and only one is a murder mystery (with a dead body in a suit of medieval armor). At its best, Lovejoy is about trickery and human weakness. Lovejoy helps a disinherited brother take revenge on his greedy sibling; a collection of classic pornography may belong to a girls' school; a wandering artist seduces lonely housewives by doing paintings of their cottages. When there is gunplay--as when a French policeman is killed by thieves who strip homes of their architectural features--it feels a bit overdone, a bit showy. Far more compelling are the subtle conflicts and dramas, such as when Lovejoy gently forces an elderly woman to admit her silver bowls aren't worth what she claimed. Both writing and direction have sharpened in this second season: Plots are twistier, characters better developed, the pace more sprightly, and McShane seems gloriously at ease with unscrupulous alter-ego. In addition to twelve excellent episodes (including the two-part season finale, featuring Linda Gray from Dallas), this box set has two charming interviews with McShane, one made for the dvd release and one from a 1991 British talk show, conducted when the series was aired. Lovejoy features an abundance of vaguely familiar character actors as guest starts, including Brian Blessed (Flash Gordon), Patrick Malahide (The Singing Detective), and Tom Wilkinson (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). --Bret Fetzer
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