Bodies : The Complete BBC Collection Box Set [2004] [DVD]
Bodies : The Complete BBC Collection Box Set [2004] [DVD]
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Product Description
This Dvd Set Complete 6 Discs Collection Is Brand New & Factory Sealed - Another Dvd Set Is Now Becoming Very Collectable.
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If you’re looking for a cheery, soap-like medical drama where all Doctors are heroes then I’d advise you go elsewhere. If, however, you are looking for something that is dark, shocking yet totally mesmerizing then please, BUY THIS!
I will say no more…
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This show was so compelling with great acting from Max Beesley and the sinister Keith Allen. It looks really different from most TV series and is shot in a really fast paced and stylish way.
It really shows the darker sider of working in the NHS and the drama and characters are great. A real landmark series.
Can’t wait for the DVD!!
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i have watched this dvd of this fantastic programme and i am so pleased i bought it, as it is my favourite tv programme. wonderful actors, and brilliant acting. i enjoyed watching all the episodes again. i can’t wait for series 2 to be released!!
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A wonderful dark, funny, intelligent, thought provoking series. One moment you’re horrified, the next you’re laughing. The script is flawless and the acting exceptional. It is a total disgrace that this series wasn’t continued. Instead the BBC churn out endless derivative detective mysteries and ‘escape to the country’ comedy dramas. No effort was made to publicise it and then they were surprised that it didn’t rate. I only found it by chance and everyone I know who also discovered it was hooked and now raves about it. You must WATCH THIS SERIES then write to the BBC to say how disgusted you are they stopped making it!
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I have to be honest on this one I would love to work as a high up tv executive because if the job is to scrap brilliant programmes and commission “and they all lived happily ever after” dramas then pay me to make those decisions.
I have watched all the usual tosh and as a previous review I found this gem by pure luck. I was hooked on this from the first episode, absoloutely brilliant. This series shows the blood and guts of being a doctor etc with the politics involved. Where mistakes can literaly kill and they frequestly get made. Max Beesley and Neve Mcintosh for me absoultely steal this series, I have never known anything like this where one second you are shocked and the next you are laughing hysterically. All I can say to anybody who is considering buying this collection is you will not be dissapointed at all but please be prepared to be shocked and possibly offened at some of the contents.
Also apologies if I waffle a touch but this is my first review.
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I like those reviewers below stumbled upon this series also quite by chance. However, after just watching a few minutes of it I was hooked and couldn’t wait for the next episode – I even watched the repeated episodes inbetween! Exceptional acting! I agree also that it’s a total shame that this has been scrapped – especially when you see some of the series that continue long after they should have ended. I shall be ordering the complete boxed set once it is released – without a doubt!
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This box set gives you all of seasons one and two plus the movie length finale. The complex story lines are absorbing and this is much a drama about work politics as it is about tough medical cases. Every character is finely shaded so that even the villains are sympathetic at times and the supposed heroes as almost as flawed. Max Beeseley excels as the young registrar while Keith Allen almost steals the show as the cynical Dr Whitman – he certainly has the funniest lines, and provides some memorable comis moments. Some of the medical procedures are filmed in a very graphic style but this just adds to realism of the whole serial which only very rarely leaves the work place. There is hardly an unnecessary minute in all of the episodes – this is one to be watched closely and savoured! Overall, it’s compelling, claustrophobic and extremely tense.
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Presumably the series was terminated because so many of the scenes would be unacceptably explicit on TV screens in several key markets, particularly America.
For me, the thrill of these series comes from the Macchiavellian storylines and the perpetual conflict between two hierarchies: hospital management and medical consultants. Every episode sees the abuse of power to cover up incompetence.
No-one, apart possibly from the nurse, Donna, behaves perfectly in this hospital — certainly not the protagonist Rob, who is always torn between his own career, his sense of right and wrong, and his roving, woman-focussed eye.
The music is wonderful, although if you watch the episodes in close succession, it gets a tad repetitive. There are many thoughtful silences, however, and Rob is a man of few words — it’s left to the viewer to guess what he’s thinking.
For me, the political storylines could have worked just as well in another profession. I am squeamish, so the only way for me to get through the gore is to become a little desensitised and detached from the plight of the many victims. Thankfully I have no plans to go back to any maternity ward myself, although of course my children may well do so. I’ll probably conceal this boxed set from them!
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Bodies was first shown on tv but not particularly promoted. It has the georgeous Max Beasley and the funny Keith Allen playing gynacologists. Much better than any other hospital drama on tv. Warning – do not watch if you are just about to go in for any gynae surgery as there are a lot of gruesome scenes – very lifelike.
A good watch for men and women.
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This series starring Max Beesley et al is fabulous, not for the faint hearted, but very true to life – the births and operations seem so real and the wrangling between hospital management and doctors very well portrayed.
Watch it.