Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10125 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-08-27
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 293 minutes

DVD Description
Catch up with the secrets and lies that lurk beneath the calm surface of Meadowlands in the dark mystery that is Channel 4’s Cape Wrath.

When Danny Brogan, his wife Evelyn, and their teenage twins Zoë and Mark move to Meadowlands, they seem to have landed on their feet in a 21st-century suburban paradise. But the Brogans are on the run from a dangerous past and are here to create a new life as part of a witness protection programme, only the inhabitants are stranger than they first appear. Murder, conspiracy and sexual tension are the undercurrents in this eerie, yet mesmerising Twin-Peaksy series.

Includes all 5 episodes in Series 1.

More about the episodes: The Brogans move to a seemingly idyllic suburb to escape something sinister in their collective past. They meet Brenda, their hyperactive and highly strung neighbour who speaks of almost nothing but the beauty of her daughter Jezebel.

They meet Jack (of all trades) Donnelly, the local handyman who feeds off people's fear of him. They meet Bernard Wintersgill, a police detective who ensures the residents remain lawful and dispenses justice as he sees fit. Keeping an eye on them all is the seemingly impenetrable 'handler' Samantha.

The Brogans very quickly realise that beyond mother Evelyn's melancholy, daughter Zoe's cold, predatory behaviour and son Mark's refusal to speak, they are not the only ones living with the repercussions of dire decisions made in the past.

Everyone in Meadowlands has something to hide and it's only a matter of time before their secrets resurface to ruin them.

Synopsis
Underneath the welcoming facade of a suburban paradise lies a mixture of dark secrets, for Meadowlands is a place where everyone has something to hide. Running from a troubled past, the Brogan family are sent to Meadowlands to commence a life under the confines of the witness protection programme. As the Brogans become acquainted with their newfound neighbours, they soon discover that no one is as they seem.

Customer Reviews

An excellent series so far!
I've just finished watching episode 4 of this series and can't wait to see the rest! Cape Wrath is an excellent drama that keeps you guessing throughout and certainly has its fair share of violence and psychological mind-play. It has sparky and interesting characters and is extremely well cast. There are some characters that appear extremely irritating at first but their place quickly becomes clear, the cast is well balanced and there are few gaps. Some parts are perhaps a bit contrived and the set is a little odd and looks extremely american, perhaps to appeal to the US viewers?! Overall though I would thoroughly recommend this series and will be lending this to countless friends in the coming months I'm sure.
This has got to be english drama at its near-best. Cape Wrath is frightening and compelling and keeps up your interest. I've just found out that the second series has been cancelled - what a shame! a bit more advertising maybe! none of my friends had even heard of it!

Compelling - like watching a car crash
I am amazed at the five star reviews for this series, which shows how far away from the popular pulse Channel Four is.

It may be weird and culty and different and boast a strong cast, but it's not very good. It's utterly incredible and excrutiatingly silly. The 'concept' is a community where weird people - apparently in 'witness protection' - live together and are controlled by sinister government forces. So this is 'The Prisoner' meets 'Twin Peaks' plus a bit of 'the Truman Show', which is, no doubt, how some fool sold it to commissioning. Not all dramas need to be gritty and realistic, but they do need some internal logic and this one just doesn't have any. Are there really that many people in witness protection? Where does everyone else come in, the doctor's receptionists, the motel workers? How come there's only one police officer (note empty station during world's worst break-in)?

Worst of all, there is no humour - none. Twin Peaks was stupid, but it was funny and you forgave it a lot because of that. There is no lightening of tone here at all; just po-faced pomposity. It's like Spooks without the terrorism.

David Morissey is considered one of Britain's top actors, but this is as big a mis-fire for him as Basic Instinct 2. He emotes furiously, but as his character is necessarily underdrawn - for the mystery - and his relationships completely synthetic; it's like trying to do Hamlet in an episode of the Chuckle Brothers. Others fare batter; Lucy Cohu - as his sexy wife - is, well, sexy and Melanie Hill, as a busybody neighbour, does a decent turn, but other characters just sink. What the heck is that doctor all about? Morrisey's kids - the 'twins' - are the kind of adolescents that only exist in rank TV shows (and the girl's too young and immature to carry the weight of plot and romantic interest on her), though tattooed new star Tom Hardy wipes the floor with everyone else when it comes to pointless over-acting in a subsidiary role. He is just awful. If I hadn't seen 'The Take,' I would say his reputation is based on sand.

Unsurprisingly the Great British Public threw up its hands at this farrago of utter nonsense and it was binned, which leaves a lot of plot development forever in the toilet where, perhaps, it should stay. This is the TV channel that has gone to produce 'The execution of Gary Glitter.' They have lost the plot.

The disappointing thing is that British television needs different drama. We get Waterloo Road and Bonekickers and Hustle and Ashes to Ashes; compare that with True Blood, The Wire, The Sopranos, 24. For Cape Wrath, they got together a brilliant cast, spent some money and produced - well - garbage. What a missed opportunity.

Two stars instead of one, because this is watchable on a 'how bad is this' basis.

cracking series
very bizarre viewing but strangley addictive--would recommend it and very good val;ue for a series