Wire in the Blood - Justice Painted Blind

Description

Brilliant, passionate and eccentric, clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green) has an extraordinary understanding of the criminal mind. It enables him to empathize with both victim and murderer - and even to visualize the crimes. Working alongside the ambitious and driven Detective Inspector Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris), Dr. Hill helps the police profile and track down vicious killers in northern England. The brutal strangulation of a young woman bears shocking resemblance to the killing of 11-year-old Trudy Hibbert three years earlier. Paul Gregory, a known pedophile, was acquitted of the crime. Now, the police suspect him of murder once again. But when new evidence reveals a bizarre connection with Gregory's trial, Dr. Hill realizes that someone is trying to take justice into his or her own hands.

Customer Reviews:

Intense and Off Kilter Mystery.......2004-09-06

While maybe the episodes just a little padded, this dvd is still a stunner. Robson Green and Hermione Norris manage to pull off that difficult job of tightly leashed sexual attraction in a story that revolves around a pedaephile's return to the community and a mysterious series of deaths.

The story never lets down it's emotional high pitch whether it is the police dealing with one another or the community demanding justice or Robson's character, a psychologist working with the police, working out the feelings of the killer in his own mind.

The suspense is sustained and Robson and Norris' characters are fascinating if off kilter.

Show Great - DVD release not good.......2004-04-07

I find it really irritating that, after I buy the first Wire in the Blood DVD, that they release all three in a set - at a much cheaper price than if bought individually.

Description

As seen on BBC America, this set includes all 6 First Season episodes from: The Mermaids Singing, Shadows Rising and Justice Painted Blind.

Customer Reviews:

Gripping series.......2007-09-14

I didn't think I would care for this series but then couldn't stop watching it. I've seen Series 1 and 2 and the acting is superb. I'm saving Series 3 for when I can watch it all in one day.

Wire in the Blood 1 & 2.......2007-01-11

This is a great and compelling series. I haven't watched the 3rd DVD yet but I expect to be just as good as the other two.

Awesome show!!.......2007-01-10

I discovered this through BBC America during the 4th season and had to order the previous 3. Excellently written and acted. Robson Green is an amazing actor and should be better known in the US.

FAR BETTER THAN MOST SUSPENSE MOVIES!.......2006-08-16

THE BBC IS BRILLIANT.HAVING PRODUCED SOME OF TV'S BEST AND BY FAR INTELLIGENT THRILLERS & MYSTERIES NOW BRING US "WIRE IN THE BLOOD" . INTRIGUEING PLOTS ,INTRICATE ,INDEPTH CHARACTORS SOO WELL WRITTEN AND DIRECTED THAT HOLLYWOOD SHOULD TAKE A GOOD LOOK,AS THEY CAN'T COME CLOSE ,NO MATTER HOW MUCH $ THEY SPEND.ROBSON GREEN STARRING AS DR. HILL ,A CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST AIDING THE BRADFORD POLICE'S DCI JORDAN{HERMIONE NORRIS} IN TRACKING DOWN SERIAL KILLERS WORK SPELINDLY TOGETHER.PAST IT'S THIRD SEASON & INTO A SPINOFF "TOUCHING EVIL"THERE IS NOT ONE BAD EPISODE.CSI IS GOOD YET THIS IS FAR THE SUPERIOR.

British Crime Drama at its Very Best!.......2006-01-08

Based on the novels by Val McDermid, Wire in the Blood is a gritty, rivetting, suspenseful psychological crime drama; it is also, without a doubt, one of the best series of that genre around. Robson Green (Touching Evil, Reckless, Me & Mrs. Jones, The Student Prince, The Gambling Man, Grafters, Soldier Soldier) stars as Dr. Tony Hill, a clinical psychologist who moonlights as a criminal profiler for the police. Tony is brilliant in his ability to gain insights into the criminal mind, but his brilliance comes at a cost, compensated as it is by an equal degree of social ineptitude. Like an absent-minded professor, Tony has a mind so focused that he easily becomes oblivious to his surroundings and to those around him. It doesn't help matters that he talks to himself or that he finds it helpful to physically act out various aspects of the crime in question--things that are best NOT done in a public place! Though the storylines are very serious--even chilling--the very nature of Tony's character provides the occasional welcome moment of lightness and humour. Those familiar with Robson Green will know that this is the type of character at which he excels--characters which are, at the very least, just a little bit odd.

Tony's connection with the police is via Detective Chief Inspector Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris--Cold Feet's Karen Marsden), a shrewd, hard-working cop, who is well aware of Tony's brilliant mind and of his value to the police. There exists almost from the start--and always beneath the surface--a mutual attraction between Tony and Carol, and it is here that Tony most poignantly feels his lack of social skills.

There are, at the time of writing, two sets on dvd (with set three due for release in February 2006). Set one contains three episodes (each presented as two back-to-back 50 minute episodes); set two contains four 100-minute episodes. DVD extras on set one are limited to brief text-based bios, but set two consists of interesting and informative interviews with Robson Green, Hermion Norris, author Val McDermid, and the production team.

Though this is a series, each episode is movie length, and I would challenge anyone to find a Hollywood crime drama as good as any one of the episodes in this outstanding series. If you enjoy top quality, impeccably-acted, gritty, dark, intelligent psychological crime drama which draws the viewer right in--shows like BBC's Waking the Dead, for example--you will definitely enjoy this series, and I recommend both sets without hesitation. I enjoyed the series so much that I bought McDermid's latest Tony Hill novel, The Torment of Others (2004), which I also thoroughly enjoyed and highly recommend. Personally, I can't wait for the release of set three, and I hope Koch Vision continues to release future sets as they become available!

Very highly recommended!

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