The Walking Dead - Season 5 [Blu-ray]

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I have been a huge fan of this show since the beginning, and even stayed with it through a few rocky patches in the 2nd/3rd series. I am happy to say that it has been getting better and better. This series starts with some wild action set pieces and then builds from there. Whilst the 2nd half of the season is a little bit less frenetic it builds up nicely to what will be surely be a fast paced start next time. Fans of the show know what to expect. Gore, tough decisions, sweat and emotion. This is all delivered in a compulsive and addictive way.

After good but not always great outings in the previous couple of seasons, this year struck me as a real return to form for the Walking Dead crew - there's an awful lot going on this year with very little down time. Characters come and go rapidly with the majority of them getting a story arch of some description and significance. It picks up exactly where the conclusion of Season 4 left off with a violent, bloody and chaotic opening that shakes things up all over again. From there the pace is fairly relentless with a string of interesting tangents and fascinating possibilities. As usual it's the living, breathing peeps that are causing most of the problems with the walkers stumbling around picking up the pieces. At times it feels almost unrelentingly bleak as it bounces along from one tragedy to the next - just when you think things really can't get any worse, they do. They really do. It's all littered with some of the more arresting, shocking and memorable moments of the last few years so roll on Season 6 so we can do it all over again.

I’ve been a huge walking dead fan from series one, and I’m looking forward to series 6 starting soon, that being said, I feel like the series is starting to loose its direction. Two reasons for knocking a star off. One. Series 4 and 5 were great at the beginning and end but tiresomely slow in the middle, and there seems to be no direction for the story anymore. I am sure there are a few out there that would love to just watch zombies being hacked up season after season, but unless the series finds direction and starts to show the beginnings of an end goal to the whole thing, other than just a bunch of people surviving every week, I doubt the series will last more than a few more seasons before the ratings drop enough for the series to get its final season forced upon it by the powers above. Two. EOne have been chosen again to distribute the Blu-ray/DVD for season 5 in the UK. I have an extensive Blu-ray collection, and the season 4 Blu-ray boxset is without any hesitation, the worst quality blu-rays in my collection. Terribly grainy picture on every disc. If you are viewing them on a HD TV with lots of built in noise filters you probably wont notice it, but if you are using a pro Monitor like me and software with no noise filtering, the quality is the worst I’ve ever seen on a blu-ray. There have been some excuses like it being purposefully shot on 16mm film and grainy to add to the atmosphere, but this is complete B*S! Seasons 1 to 3 were also shot on 16mm film and its hard to see any grain/noise on the disks. If you look at the star rating from 1 to 3 on the season four boxset, the majority of the complaints are saying exactly the same thing about picture quality. The 4 and 5 star rating are just people rating how good the series is. I wrote to eOne about the poor quality and silence… shows how much they care about their customers. If it wasn’t for the series being so good, I would have given it one star for the quality of the season 4 boxset. I’ve ordered season 5, should get it Monday, but I’m already set for disappointment about the quality. Come on eOne, surprise me! Update: 29.09.2015 Season 5 Blu-ray boxset arrived this morning. Tested it this afternoon, and not much of an improvement in picture quality than the Season 4 boxset. Varying picture quality, from excessive noise, (not just on dark scenes) to barely noticeable. Picture quality seemed to improve a little half way though disc 4 onward. I would say a slight improvement from the season 4 boxset, but still not anywhere near the quality of the season 3 boxset. No point informing Amazon as they will do what they did last time, and get their quality control to test it on a HD TV with lots of noise filtering, say there's nothing wrong, and send me out a new one with exactly the same poor picture quality. A little disappointing but expected. Wish AMC would stop using eOne to distribute The Walking Dead in the UK.

Been a huge fan of The Walking Dead since day one & had this season on pre-order ASAP. With the shocking revelations concerning the Terminus inhabitants in the finale of last season,i couldn't wait to get my teeth into season 5! There are three main stories spread across this boxset-the first arc at Terminus is over way too early on,considering the threat imposed,but is resolved with predictable violence & brutality.The second story & weakest by far,involves a group of survivors & dodgy 'cops' at a hospital.This plot was kinda dull & a chore to watch after the shocking first arc,but also,(mercifully),rushed through before getting to the main event,where they join a group over in Alexandria,which continues beyond & into season six. Along the way there are new & returning characters joining the 'family'with a sprinkling of heart-wrenching moments & of course,lots of the usual intestines all over the place. Apart from the yawn-some hospital sub-plot,there is also some unusually laughably bad & downright cringe-worthy dialogue in a few scenes. However,these minor inconsistences don't detract from Walking Dead being still a fantastic TV series. Roll on Season six! :o)

Very Good

Still as good as ever. From the tense first episode to the brief reunion of fan favourite Morgan and Rick in the finale. The deaths of characters are still felt as strongly and character development continues to be seen. Beautifully filmed, great effects (one chain three zombies heads removed in the finale...brilliant), scares galore. Minor quibble the finale felt more like a teaser for season 6....still it's 5 stars. Season 6 is near are you Team Rick or Team Morgan....

Perfetto.

Gran Articulo, 10/10

DVD came in as described! Love the show and I've watched it before so that was nothing I didn't expect. No scratches dents or dings!

一番初めのストーリーがかなりグロい。でも最後はハッピーエンドでした。キャロルランボー最高。

My favorite shows always get cancelled. "Saturday Night Live", and "The Simpsons" have been on-the-air half the time this 66-year-old reviewer has been alive, and, yet, MOST of the series I've liked rarely make it past their third year. Hopefully, Supernatural: Season 10 Blu-ray , Ancient Aliens Seasons 1-6 and Mythbusters: Collection 12 will do better, longer, than, other, quality entertainment, such as, Eureka: The Complete Series (Amazon Exclusive) ; Warehouse 13: The Complete Series ; Roswell - Seasons 1-3 ; Kyle XY: The Complete Third and Final Season ; The Ghost Whisperer: The Complete Series ; and, many others... I no longer LIVE in America, so, I binge-watch my favorite shows in the summer as they are released for DVD/BD sale. ************************************************************************************************** This season was particularly interesting because of the RE-visit [via a dying man's ghost-haunting] of several former [dead] Characters from the show... you never know who is gonna DIE on this show! Love it, so far, START to...uh... that "F-word".... FINISH! I, absolutely, LOVE this show. I'm, a-l-m-o-s-t , EAGERLY awaiting the ACTUAL Zombie Apocalypse! **************************************************************************************