The Pretender - The Complete First Season
by Steven Long Mitchell, Andrea Parker, Jon Koslowsky, Charles Siebert, David Jackson
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Actor: Michael T. Weiss, Patrick BauchauDirector: Andrea Parker, Charles Siebert, David Jackson, Jon Koslowsky, Steven Long Mitchell
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1078 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-03-22
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of The Pretender - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: great service
Summary: 5 Stars
I received the product more quickly than expected. It was in excellent condition. I would definitely purchase from them again.DVD Review: Waited 12 years for this
Summary: 5 Stars
I never missed this series when it was on tv and I was so EXCITED to find it available on DVD on Amazon. I actually purchased the first set of the 4 season series for my daughter's birthday. She absolutely loved it. I think what I like most is the Genius mind of Jerrod but the innocence of him also. He is always helping other people while at the same time trying to find out who he really is. You find yourself feeling compasion for him. And Michael T. Weiss is HOT! Especially when Jarod gets angry and even with the person who did someone wrong. There is no Violence or strong language which I really appreciate.DVD Review: Review
Summary: 4 Stars
The product was as described and received in a timely manner. One of the DVDs was slightly scratched and did not work in a couple places.DVD Review: Pretender lender
Summary: 5 Stars
Most of the episodes at the beginning have the same predictable narrative but this doesn't take away from the 'genius' of the show. This first season delves into Jarod's past just enough to make you want more.
Good neat packaging and some cool special features are most welcome too.
DVD Review: Great show, but wrong DVD region code
Summary: 4 Stars
Couldn't play this in my European Playstation 3, so I was forced to watch this on my computer instead.
The show in it self is brilliant though.
Description of The Pretender - The Complete First Season
Jarod is a Pretender-a genius whose exceptional intelligence allows him to assume various identities at will, be it doctor, test pilot or lawyer. Taken from his parents at an early age, Jarod was brought up in the Centre, a think-tank facility where he believed his computer-like mind was being used to benefit mankind. But when he learned the simulations he solved were being sold to the highest-bidder no matter what their intent, Jarod escaped. Now on the run, Jarod embarks on a search for his true identity while also attempting to balance out any wrong his simulations have caused by helping people who are as powerless as he once was.Jarod (Michael T. Weiss) is a Pretender. As a five-year-old in 1963, he was taken from his home and "adopted" by The Centre, a mysterious Delaware-based think tank. Why Jarod? His superior intellect--Jarod can "pretend" to be anything he wants: doctor, lawyer, engineer, astronaut and, as he quips in episode five ("The Paper Clock"), "I'm working on Indian chief."
Thirty years later, once he realized his efforts were not being used for good, Jarod escaped from the Centre. Psychiatrist and surrogate father Sydney (Carniv?le's velvet-voiced Patrick Bauchau) and sociopathic sidekick and Emma Peel lookalike Miss Parker (ER's Andrea Parker) have been trying to track him down ever since. They're assisted by the technically proficient, if socially inept Broots (Napoleon Dynamite's Jon Gries). Each and every time, Jarod eludes their grasp, but not before helping some stranger who's been dealt an injustice (just as he once was). Along the way, he hopes to figure out who he is and where he came from.
Each of these 21 episodes moves deftly from Jarod's lonely past to his more satisfying, if precarious present (the human "science project" was constantly videotaped as a boy, hence the abundance of footage from his childhood). It's a worthy successor to paranoid thrillers like The Fugitive and the unjustly obscure Nowhere Man (from X-Files creator Chris Carter), and the droll performance of Weiss (Jeffrey) adds a dose of levity to a concept usually painted with a darker palette. The Pretender ran on NBC for four seasons and was followed by two TV movies, The Pretender 2001 and Isle of the Haunted. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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