MacGyver Season 1

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I wanted a regular Joe, not a super spy with partners and guns around in every episode. The original was most about being a “geek”: science was cool and violence was not. That made it fun and different — which is what is needed again, not more with everything always about espionage or whatever. Mac was a loner. Now, he’s living with a friend. They needed to get the main character right and put him in bad situations that, at times, could be like what anybody could be in.

The Thornton boss (which changed mid-season) was just too like a boss, while Pete of the original was obviously friends with Mac. They had some good adventures together and was cooler to see them interact. Also, I miss the moments of Mac individually being in trouble and then a commercial break. Many of the MacGyverisms here are just short and the split-screen is too annoying at times. Anderson’s “Mac” always looked like a man and Till looks too much of a boy. I also don’t like how, even if Mac’s still not using guns, he’s still killing many more people.

-Candie Kane

Like an old friend, Fun to see it decades later for the first time since it way back when. I keep thinking the high powered good and bad guys should be driving better cars, but then realizing that old sedan, station wagon, or car with a faux leather roof was the best they had in the good old days. Fun impractical MacGyverisms, many of which were examined by the Mythbusters. Scary how much detail they were not afraid to share back then on how to build a home-made b o m b in almost every episode!

– D. J. Donaldson

Great series remake. The one peeve that I have about this DVD collection is that there is no “play all episodes” selection in the menu. I know that it seems like a very silly thing, but it only seems to aggravate me the more I get sent back to the menu screen with not a clue which episodes I have watched. I am watching the episodes out of order and rewatching episodes, and I now have to write down which ones I have actually watched (which makes me feel old and like an idiot). I know that when they were programming the DVD menu it would not have been difficult to add a simple “play all episodes” selection option. Most series collections have it nowadays. But for whatever inexplicable reason they chose to torment me in this cruelest of manners. I am not even enjoying the series as much as I should be since I am stressing about finishing the episode and having to go back to the menu screen and guess or figure out which one is actually the next episode while watching the current episode. I never thought that it would be this big of a deal breaker for me, but apparently my OCD just can not handle it. Not going to return it, but I might not ever watch it again either.

– OtakusChaos

DVD Wholesale Main Features :   

Actors: Lucas Till, George Eads, Tristin Mays, Justin Hires, Sandrine Holt
Directors: Various
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 5
Rated: NR – Not Rated
Studio: LIONSGATE
DVD Release Date: February 27, 2018
Run Time: 893 minutes
ASIN: B07895XQQ6