NYPD Blue Season 6

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

Finally! A truly “complete” season is available, and a great one at that. The season opens with what have got to be the finest episodes NYPD Blue ever did — the final episodes of Bobby Simone. Jimmy Smits simply does an outstanding job, and he does a lot of it with nothing more than his facial expressions. He shows that it not always necessary to scream, pound on desks and throw stuff across a room to have truly great drama. He did so well, and so subtly, a lot of people didn’t notice the great job he did as an actor.
Danny Sorenson was an interesting character. I would put him as my fourth favorite behind Simone, Sipowicz and Clark. I think they did err a lot with his development, and of course Rick Schroeder left before they were able to delve into and explain his quirks to us, but he did give a bunch of good episodes.
The best feature of this is the episode – Simone’s finale — “Hearts and Souls”. It originally aired as a 90 minute episode. On Amazon Instant Video it was available only as a horrid “syndicated” version, which ran only 45 minutes (without commercials, it runs just over 64 minutes). This meant that an entire story line had been edited out, along with ruining the pacing of the episode. It also eliminated a lot of scenes where we go to see how Bobby situation was affecting the rest of the squad. With the DVD finally released, we get the entire episode in all its sad splendor. The actors all around did their jobs so perfectly, with such grace and so seeming ease, that we can forget they are acting. By the end, its as though we’ve actually lost a friend in Bobby Simone.

The DVD itself is true quality. Sound and picture are as good as the first four Seasons were, as released by Fox. I’d been waiting for this for many years. Now it’s finally here! I’ll be watching it forever!

– Mr. Dana

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Dennis Franz, Rick Schroeder
Directors: Mark Tinker
Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, NTSC
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 6
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: Shout! Factory
DVD Release Date: June 24, 2014
Run Time: 990 minutes
ASIN: B00ITAQ2T6