The Dead Zone - The Complete Fifth Season
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Movie Reviews of The Dead Zone - The Complete Fifth Season
Movie Review: Great product
Summary: 5 Stars
I watched the seasons and wanted a copy for myself before the series gets canceled now I have Johhny Smith and all his glory. Just what the Psychic ordered.Movie Review: A series to watch
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not a huge tv fan, but my husband is. He bought the fist season and we watched it, the second-4th and watched then and we HAD to buy the fifth. Even though the premise is the same every episode, they are very interesting to watch. You never know how it will end. I will continue to purchase the rest of the seasons until cable does not produce this show anymore.Movie Review: Great Show!!
Summary: 4 Stars
This show keeps me going and wondering what's around the corner for our friend Johnny!!! It's a wonder how he gets information and how fate lands on his doorstops with these people who need help! This TV is a must see!!Movie Review: Would recommend
Summary: 5 Stars
Allt the way from the States to Sweden in less than a week, and without me paying extra for the quick delivery! I would definitely recommend this seller.Movie Review: In a word... disappointing
Summary: 3 Stars
The Dead Zone is (or maybe was) one of my favorite TV series. The characters have always had unique styles - consider Johnny's detached light-hearted view of the world, Walt's admirable cowboy mannerisms, and Rev. Purdy's emotional and spiritual assignment to the world around him, to name but a few. The acting and stories in Season's 1 and 2 were outstanding. Do you still remember when Johnny awoke in the hospital and saw the doctor's family escaping from Vietnam? Or when he saw the nurse's daughter trapped in a house fire? Wow, that was some imagery.
In Seasons 3 and 4 the cleverness and magic started to be hit and miss. Some shows were still very good (e.g. Rachel, Coming Home), others were poorly written. Overall though, I was still hooked. I enjoyed seeing not only where the main Stilson/Armageddon story was headed, but also the sideline adventures just to see the characters "play together."
Unfortunately, Season 5 continues the slide downward. Despite what another Amazon review stated, there are actually 11 episodes, only a couple of which are good (the Inside Man being my favorite). Some of the episodes are so poorly written that you can see the pain on the actors' faces as they are forced to play a part in something that left them professional ashamed (e.g. Panic, Into the Heart of Darkness). Another notable disappointment is how little we see of the characters in this season. Sarah is only in the season for about 5 minutes - did she quit?, Purdy gets a few more but not much. Instead the writers have chosen to bring in no-name characters that come and go, leaving little more than a brief taste as to what they were about.
The series concludes with a "big event" that is so poorly thought out that anyone with half a brain will turn off the TV shaking his/her head. Do the writers really need to dumb down the plot so much? There was no need to water down an otherwise interesting story with fantastic all-powerful illuminati stuff. Stilson has become irrelevant drawing only pity from the viewer. I'm sorry to report that the days of cool characters interacting in an original story seem to be gone. Count me as a disappointed fan. I can only hope someone goes into USA Network and does some serious house cleaning before next season.
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