Wire in the Blood: The Complete Sixth Season
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Actor: Robson GreenBrand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 344 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-07-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: E1 Entertainment
Product features:
- WIRE IN THE BLOOD: THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Wire in the Blood: The Complete Sixth Season
DVD Review: A Plea for Sanity
Summary: 1 Stars
Wire in the Blood is one of the most important and valuable series ever produced for television. Over the past five seasons it has consistently presented detailed information on how the human mind functions via its clinical psychologist hero Dr. Tony Hill, brilliantly played by Robson Green. While the plots involved graphic stories of violent crimes, these were not presented in a voyeuristic fashion--a tricky balancing act, but an important one for a show devoted to mental health. In episode one of season six, its final season, Wire in the Blood violates that rule with a vengeance, offering a story line on a sado-masochistic sex club in a manner designed to tittilate rather than educate its audience. This impression is exacerbated by the absence of any theories from Dr. Hill on why people enter into violent relationships, and by no apparent indications he regards degrading or being degraded as problematic behavior. When DI Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) learns one of her officers was involved in sadistic sex with a victim, she tells him in disgust to "go home and sort your head out." How is he supposed to do that? Dr. Hill offers no clue.
In past seasons of Wire in the Blood we learned about the addictive aspects of pornography and its prevalent role in crimes against women. In episode two of the final season Dr. Hill giggles and jokes when he learns while checking into a hotel that a large majority of the guests order a porn channel. The episode of exceptionally fine quality that follows is capped off by Dr. Hill being revived from the dead to proclaim there is nothing on the other side. In light of the numerous people who have had near-death experiences with a God of love, and the hope such testimonies hold out for humanity, this is a bizarre and shameful conclusion for a television show to foist onto the public. What does Dr. Hill think of the many historical witnesses to an aferlife? Who affiliated with the show did the 'research' to justify a conclusion contrary to these accounts?
In episode three of the final season Dr. Hill quotes the teachings of Jesus, albeit incorrectly, in an attempt to expose the staged conversion of a convicted cannibal killer. Yet in the same episode Hill uses the word 'Jesus' as a potentially censorable adjective for supposed comic effect, and ridicules the Christian religion for aspects that had nothing to do with its foundations. In one scene Hill and Fielding gleefully bond over their mutual unbelief in front of her son. No decent mother, atheist or otherwise, can be happy over the prospect that the child she loves body and soul may one day vanish into Byron's so-called "dark day of nothingness." The scene rings ludicrously false, and it is to her credit that the polished actress Simone Lahbib looks desperately uncomfortable trying to pull it off: such callous indifference to the fate of her boy is not in keeping with the character she has consistently played so well. In another scene Dr. Hill flings a Bible over his shoulder onto the floor. Jesus told the world that God is Love, that we are capable of loving as God loves, of being merciful as God is merciful. Until we make an attempt to take him seriously, we have no idea of what human beings are truly capable of: this is a format of development that psychology, for all its important advancements, does not, cannot touch. Jesus said that the pure in heart shall see God; this is the one format of proof for His existence that individuals are capable of executing for themselves. Jesus taught kindness, compassion and peace; he denounced corruption among the religious leaders of his time and submitted to trials whose transcripts documented evidence for the Jewish people of what their so-called religious leaders truly were. His followers risked their lives and gave their lives getting that evidence in writing and preserving it from destruction at the hands of those whose guilt it exposed. Such records are a testimony to the secretive corruption that can thrive in religious heirarchies and the importance of combating it, a warning that contemporary reporting on church corruption reveals is still necessary today. Any book containing the histories of such a man and such a religion does not deserve to be treated with less respect than a used Kleenex, and no medical professional who advocates logic, denounces superficial research, and disdains the 'quick fix,' as Dr. Hill has, would do so. Unlike Lahbib, Green looks so comfortable with this radical departure from the nature of his character that he does not appear to be acting. In the interview with the cannibal killer Dr. Hill avoids answering his questions to take away his sense of control. Had Hill not tossed aside an important reference book, he could have observed the number of times Jesus reportedly employed the same technique with those who intended him harm; this was an important skill to cultivate in a society where what you said could get you killed. Episode three culminates with two kidnapped strangers being forced at gun-point to mate in a cage. The scene is presented with the same voyeuristic lingering that this show once avoided.
In episode four Fielding experiences a death in the family. She asks Dr. Hill if he ever wonders what life is all about; he simply and humbly nods "Yes." In this more rational atmosphere the show returns to its former glory, and Green's erratic performance from episode three thankfully vanishes. As in past seasons, we learn much about human behavior, and the scenes of violence are suspenseful but not gratuitous.
The Established Church has much to answer for in its centuries-old cover-ups of crimes committed by its clergy, and the consequent eroding of its doctrines: the mandate of eternal damnation effective by the sixth century, the emphasis on blood sacrifice rather than the stand against secretive religious corruption that the trials and execution of Jesus so obviously represented. Good people may well turn away repulsed from such a church and such a God; the recoil is a sacred instinct. But one honest hour spent reading about what Jesus actually said and did is enough to dispel any distortions that writhed up in the religion that bears his name, and those who heap abuse on this religion as a whole betray the sad fact that they have never bothered to spend that one honest hour. It is no accident that Jesus Christ is the one figure in Western history to have his name reduced to a format of profanity: until people apprehend the value of inexorable love, they will be desperate to distance themselves from its demands, and the farther they run the lower they will sink. Genuine belief requires reasons; yet all of us act every day on things we cannot prove. Faith and logic are not two conflicting states of mind, as so many religious and secular proponents claim: they are necessary correlates for growth, and we ignore the one to the detriment of the other. Love is the ultimate source of logic, for love alone provides genuine insight. When the producers of Wire in the Blood resorted instead to scorn, ridicule and negligence, they served up the same type of rotted fruit as the institutional church they attacked. The public owes a great debt to this show for the information it provided in past seasons, and we may all be thankful that it ended well with the final episode. But the prior episodes of season six offered warped and erroneous views on the most vital of subjects, and the audience this show has served so well in the past deserves to know better, as do the producers of Wire in the Blood. This program has long born the stamp of a conscience at its heart, of a desire to do good. I hope this review returns the favor.
Barbara Amell, editor, Wingfold
Description of Wire in the Blood: The Complete Sixth Season
Based on the characters created by best-selling author Val McDermidDr. Tony Hill (Robson Green) is a clinical psychologist with an extraordinary understanding of the criminal mind. Working alongside Detective Inspector Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib), Tony must race against time to profile and track down vicious killers before they strike again.
Disc 1: Unnatural Vices
Dr. Tony Hill investigates what appears to be the honor killing of a young Kurdish woman. However, the site where the body was found yields remains of other victims and an even more gruesome motive for the crimes.
Disc 2: Falls the Shadow
After several colleagues are murdered, Tony is arrested as the prime suspect. With time to ponder the ritualistic nature of the attacks, he finally finds a link with several recent prostitute killings.
Disc 3: From the Defeated
Tony becomes absorbed in a bizarre chain of murders in which each perpetrator in turn becomes the next victim, but the unusual modus operandi ? always involving the same gun ? remains identical.
Disc 4: The Dead Land
A killer starts dumping the bodies of homeless men in the financial district of Bradfield, leaving little evidence behind. Meanwhile, Tony fails to foresee the threat to his own life from a mysterious stalker.
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