THE DRESDEN FILES {1st. Season} (DVD Review) - 9/8/07

I caught this totally by accident after recording some late-nite TV guff and came across an episode with only half an hour recorded - It was of sufficient interest to make me want to watch the show when available on DVD. Of course I found out it was based on a series of novels by author Jim Butcher who I had never read before but certainly intend on doing now. Shown on Sci-Fi and then cancelled after 12 episodes due to "production costs" but actually lack of viewers this is actually good entertainment. We have a back arc spread out across the series with a range of core characters and side-characters with all the elements of every other genre show but this is in a class of it's own. I'm constantly surprised at just how good Special FX and CGI are nowadays even in a TV show constrained by a budget and there is plenty on show here in this First (and what looks like it's only) Season. Harry Dresden is your everyday wizard in Chicago trying to do a bit of good in a world gone mad - Some of it is trite but some of it is also spot on. So we get vampires & werewolves and everything else chucked into the mix from skinwalkers and other assorted beasties.

SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio Commentaries, Making Of Featurette, Deleted Scenes. 16x9 Widescreen Version. English 5.1. Dolby Digital Audio. English CC. Episodes & Special Features NOT RATED. Region 1 (USA). Colour. Runtime Approx: 530 Mins. LIONSGATE 2007. ISBN # 01223621688980.