Overview: An offbeat personality, a tough-as-nails approach and a track record as one of the country's leading investigators - these are just a few of the traits exhibited by television's next great detective, Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson, played by three-time Golden Globe Award nominee Kyra Sedgwick in "The Closer." In her first lead role in a dramatic series, Sedgwick plays a tough CIA-trained detective, with Southern charm, who has been brought from Atlanta to Los Angeles to head up the Priority Murder Squad, a special unit of the LAPD that handles sensitive, high-profile murder cases.

DVD Verdict: The police drama, "The Closer", will open your eyes as Brenda Johnson cracks each case by making them talk! It is that rarest of cable episodic shows: a clearly successful show on both a ratings and critical level that can slug it out with Big Three network shows; and that has translated into a full order of second season shows. I only wish we could get 22 episodes per season from the cable networks. But the fact that it's on TNT, a network that prides itself on "We know drama!" , really helps. When was the last time you saw a cable network add 10 minutes to a season one finale or present the second season opener commercial free? Am I the only one who was fascinated by those early trailers that showed a ticked-off Brenda leaving the interview room in a huff, while the accused demanded she get back in there and continue the questioning? Wild stuff, for sure. I was hooked by the trailer, but the series pilot episode reeled me in. LOL. And the following S-1 episodes were just as strongly written and acted. Sporting a well-known star and a cast of fairly well-known character actors, "The Closer" is a revelation to those who haven't found this TNT show yet. Kyra Sedgwick is an amazing actress for those who don't know her work, and her characterization of Deputy Chief Brenda Johnson stands out like a beacon among the best TV lead female characters in recent memory: a somewhat odd, sometimes humorous, but very determined police detective, who is not to be messed with. And it is so great to see J. K. Simmons, Dr Emil Skoda on "Law & Order" and "Spiderman 2", get a well-deserved major role. Jon Tenney, Robert Gossett, G.W.Bailey, Anthony John Denison, and Tony-nominated Corey Reynolds round out the excellent ensemble. This show had me "DVR-ing" the network shows, so I could watch "The Closer" first. Highly Recommended!This is the kind of show the phrase "must-see tv" should have been created for!! This is a Full Screen Presentation (1.33:1) and comes with the Special Features of:

13 episodes on four discs
22 minutes of unaired scenes
Subtitles: Spanish, French
Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

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