Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3659 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-06-26
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 463 minutes

Synopsis
Features the complete episodes of the second series that follows DS Peter Boyd and his team as they investigate cases that have been left unsolved for a long time. Includes four more cases. In 'Life Sentence' the team requires the help of a prisoner who is a psychotic killer when a copycat killer threatens a surviving victim. Also includes episodes 'Deathwatch', 'Special Relationship' and 'Thin Air'.

Customer Reviews

Top Notch
'Waking the Dead' is probably the best detective drama that has ever been made, and holds this title justifiably because it is so markedly different from other alternatives.

This series is, in a word, stunning. The plots of the episodes are tightly controlled, filled with tension, and the wonderful dynamic between Sue Johnston's calm, pragmatic psychologist and Trevor Eve's manic, instinctive Superintendant make the series worth watching on its own. Although a few episodes in the first series were somewhat weaker than the main, you can't find any holes in this series. Every episode is simply riveting.

Roll on series 3 on DVD, and I have noted that the BBC have started filming a sixth series. This kind of drama justifies why you pay your TV licence.

Absolutely brilliant
This must certainly be one of the best series the BBC has ever produced. Great cast, fast-paced directing, edge-of-seat storylines, no misfires whatsoever. DVD's come with no extra's. But better this way, than making up silly extra's, like the continuing 'look how great we are'-extra's on the CSI-sets or the 'we-could-have-done-without-this'-extra's that come with 'Midsomer Murders'

More confused than clever
I only caught up with Waking the Dead by seeing a couple of repeats, which I thoroughly enjoyed. I hadn't seen any of series 2.

Yes, I enjoyed it, but with reservations. It's slick and the characterisation is good. As for the plots, well that's another thing. Part of the fun of the genre is that you have to think, but I'm now getting used to the fact that the reason why I'm lost is not because the writing is clever, but because there are too many things about the storylines that simply do not add up. I watched 'Thin Air' last night and I'm still reeling from the absurdity of it all.

I hope that they spent as much money on a team of writers for series 3 as they did on star actors in series 2.

Top marks to Frankie though, as always.