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Da Vinci's Inquest- The Complete First Season | 
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 59929
Format: Color, Import
Languages: English (Unknown), French (Unknown)
Region: 1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 598 Minutes
UPC: 624262127536
EAN: 0624262127536
ASIN: B000622672
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Product Description
A Vancouver cop turned coroner searches for truth and justice with the help of his friends.
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 Product Defective January 17, 2008
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1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This DVD does NOT represent the "COMPLETE First Season." This product is defective in failing to include Part 2 of the last episode in the first season. You are left with a cliff hanger, and no resolution. Do not buy this particular DVD [package represented runtime of 598 min]. Packaging was also cheap; arrived broken with one of the discs rattling around loose in the case.
 Wonderful Creation from Canada. March 14, 2007
CrankyOldWoman (Seattle)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
All of the reviews of this series are right on. I am so impressed with Nicholas Campbell and the men who put this series together, along with the sequel, when DaVinci becomes mayor. All or a portion of this group also, if I'm correct, created "Intelligence", which is running currently and one of the most gripping series I've ever seen on television. And they can't decide if it will continue for a second season!
Yet - we can only buy Season One of "DaVinci's Inquest". This series is intelligently and realistically written with a mix of humour, the real problems of political and street life and heroes with forgivable and recognizable flaws. What's not to love?!
I've written CBC countless times and they appear to have no interest in what their viewers want.
We can buy DVD's of countless mindless series, yet Canada produces a remarkable trio of series and we viewers can't get our hands on them. What the heck are they thinking? Perhaps a better question - ARE they thinking?
It would appear they are wonderful at creating but miserable at marketing.
One of the best aspects of these series is that the violence is not gratuitous and not in your face. They understand you don't have to have blood and gore to create tension. It is always just far enough away that you are not smacked with it, say, as one is with the CSI series.
"DaVinci's Inquest" is NOT written for the average 12 year old mind, thank God. We can only hope someone wakes up and puts all of the episodes on DVD so the fans can watch them over and over. They are worth every minute of your time.
From Someone Who's Seen It All March 8, 2007
C. Braun (Chilliwack, BC, Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've read the dozen reviews on here so far, and I completely agree with them. This show was (and still is) one of the best dramas you'll find on TV.
This is unlike anything you'll find on basic cable in the USA. Frank discussion of policies like needle exchanges and red-light districts, bleak looks at the issues of homelessness and drug abuse. This isn't your usual prime-time fare (well, it was up here). But underneath all of it is a brilliantly written show with amazing actors, from the stars to the recurring bit characters. Many others have sung the praises of them, so I'll just leave it at agreeing with them.
Chris Haddock wrote most, if not all, of this series' episodes, and was showered with accolades up here for his work, and rightly so. It stunned me that US audiences didn't make his CBS offering, The Handler (from a few years back) popular enough for a second season, even if he had to "Hollywood-ize" his stories. But I'm glad that I see Davinci's Inquest finding an audience, even if it is many years later.
And for all those who want more seasons on DVD, I couldn't agree more. If anything, the show gets even better in later seasons.
We are so fortunate that a place like Canada is so close and so dear.... February 24, 2007
Just a guy in Oregon (Portland, Oregon)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I first began watching this series on cable because of the setting. My first Vancouver visit was in 1975 and probably at least thirty times since. I love the city and the nation. In fact I almost moved there in the early eighties. The lack of a Bill of Rights and my typically American disgust for allegiance to royalty kept me in Oregon.
Yes, as other reviewers have said the show highlights some of the bad things about the city and nation. But it ever more so highlights what is right and different about Canada. The show is a cross between Law and Order and CSI with a overtone of PBS commentary on social injustice. Dominic is a sensitive man in a difficult job.
I enjoy the Canadian dialect.....it sounds to me like US english in the 50s and early 60s. Older men call much younger adult men 'son' just like my dad used to ( him a WW2 vet ) but we can't do that now.
Groups of PD men commisserate together and act like men-not phantoms emasculated by the hyper feminism in the US during these past disastrous decades. Women are strong and assertive but , in being so, don't act like men-pandering to left wing US stereotypes. Oh Canada. You are different and in many ways better.
If the viewer wants to get to really know Vancouver the series does it big time. Since I know Van very well and have been to many of the shooting locales over and over I can say it's Soooooo accurate. The gulls are always around and a big raven now and then....when it is rainy it is rainy and the locales are REAL not some back lot set. ( I've seen some obvious real Vancouver locales in Stargate as well ). So many places....the seawall walk, granville island, burrard bridge, downtown...west end , Stanley Park etc.
The viewer gets a real feel for the city. The characters are real people with real emotions. The issues discussed are real there and here......the pain of AIDS in the city, the pain of drugs and homelessness, the pain of income inequality. All amid the unreal beauty of the city.
I wish the producer would have the sense to offer all the seasons SOON on DVD. The reruns on cable here in from Chicago are annoying.....cut up in odd ways for late night or early morning markets....and they have to voice over 'bad' words that we in the US are just to Puritanical to allow on the air. What a joke. The DVDs are so much better.
So last time down on English Bay watching the summer fireworks....and standing with a million or so of my brothers and sister Canadians ( in my heart ) I sing the anthem and cry. And nobody knows I am not a Canadian. By golly that feels good. This series lets me 'be' in my second home anytime...... Let me tell you...if you get the chance go to Vancouver. But I warn you, you may not want to leave. Warts and all it's fantastic.
Last thirty years I've been in Vancouver dozens of times and downtown Portland five or six. Tells you something about both places. Buy this DVD 'cause you'll watch it over and over. What's not to like ay?
One of a kind February 15, 2007
Sherilyn A. Osborne (Lewiston, Ca)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this program last winter when our cable lost most of the stations and could not be repaired until spring due to a massive mud slide. The one of the few stations I could get was out of Chicago. I found myself hooked after two times of watching it.
I video taped it daily and I really liked that they did not totally wrap up the story every hour and had some plots that ran on for weeks or even months while the case they worked on that day might be closed.
You also got to know their personal lives also. The story is best if watched daily so you understand since things as they go along. There will be references to things that have been going on over the past 5 weeks or more.
I have read that this series is based on the actual coroner.
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