The Invisible Man: Season 1

After seeing so many poor or banal sci-fi series released on DVD, I was upset that the Sci-Fi Channel's THE INVISIBLE MAN series was not amongst them (at least not in the US anyway... it's been available for years on Region 2 DVD's), but now, at long last, it's coming! This is by far the best show that the Sci-Fi Channel has ever created (aside from the great BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) and it has been deserving of reruns at the VERY least, but other less interesting and less entertaining shows have been clogging up Sci-Fi's airwaves (STARGATE series, I'm looking at you!).But onto the show itself. Darien Fawkes (the underappreciated Vincent Ventresca) is a thief who is finally caught and put in prison. He's looking at a life sentence, but his brother comes to his "rescue" of sorts when he offers him a deal: Testing an experimental gland implant in the brain that will release a chemical nicknamed "Quicksilver" that coats the skin for a brief period of time that bends light around the subject, allowing them to become invisible to the naked eye. Darien accepts the deal, but we know what road good intentions lead to. Fawkes' brother is double-crossed and killed by his assistant Arnaud DeFehrn (the wonderfully sleazy Joel Bissonette), and Fawkes is stuck with the experimental gland before it's perfected. The gland has a potentially fatal flaw which is that if used for too long of a period of time, the user (in this case, Fawkes) will experience what is called "Quicksilver Madness" which he experiences psychotic and sociopathic tendencies. Fawkes is recruited by "The Agency", a covert ops organization that answers only to The President, run by a perenially frustrated bean-counter usually referred to as "The Official" or "The Fat Man" (the hilarious Eddie Jones) and his yes-man Eberts (the also-hilarious Michael McCafferty). Fawkes' condition is watched over by the lovely Claire "The Keeper" Keeply (beautiful and dry-witted Shannon Kenny), who must regularly give him injections of a counter-agent that wards off the Quicksilver Madness, and is determined to find a way to remove the gland from Darien without the procedure killing him.The show also gives us a brilliant buddy cop story with Fawkes partnered with Agent Bobby Hobbes (the wonderful and easily recognizable Paul Ben-Victor), a self-professed ladies man and martial arts master, who also may be suffering from schizophrenia that may be fueling these delusions of grandeur (or are they delusions?). The chemistry that is developed between Fawkes and Hobbes is just amazing, and it becomes one of the high points of the show.One of the other high points is the amazing special effects. When Fawkes goes invisible (and vice versa), the transition is totally seamless. It was this level of achievement that unfortunately brought this show to an all-too premature end because it was just too expensive to keep up that level.Overall, this is a really great and really fun show that just ended way too soon but it finally is back to watch on this DVD series!

It's been years and we are still waiting for the rest of the program...never again will I purchase these things season by season. Dont trust the process..

Imagine one of those kitchy "not a cop" shows from the eighties, like "Knight Rider" except make it in the year 2000.The writers had no problem with "because" as a reason for anything and everything. I rather like that about the show but it's something you should know going in.It's got everything, spies, espionage, car chases, pretty girls, hot guys, not-pretty girls, not-hot guys, seriousness in the face of frivolity, and nonsense in serious situations, schi-fi, cops and robbers, the whole nine yards. Plus, it's not available for streaming, like anywhere. So this DVD is the only way to see it.Price is right and it's very much worth watching. DVD's came quickly and played well in both my laptop and my home DVD player.

I was quite disappointed in this series. However, I am not a big fan of science fiction. If the dialogue is good, the characters are well drawn, and the plotting is reasonable, then I can certainly accept the sci-fi aspect of it. I loved Buffy the Vampire Slayer and enjoyed Firefly (despite the goofy combination of guns and space ships).In the Invisible Man, I don't find the characters to be interesting or compelling, apart from the babe in the lab. I am a sucker of a cute nerd, I guess.I never buy into the lead character's motivation, his back-story, or his rebelliousness. He simply doesn't sell it for me. His boss is okay, but so much of it strikes me as corny.The plotting and the writing strike me as being weak as well. I am about 8 episodes into the first season, and I don't know if I really want to finish this series or just put it back on the shelf. I don't find myself wondering where this next episode will take the characters, or what new layers of back story will be added to them. If I am tired and it is mid-episode, I shut it down. I don't get interested enough to stay up late to see what happens next.Obviously, I am in a minority here and there seem to be a number of people who really like this series. Maybe if I was 16, had not seen many well-crafted series, this might have a great appeal to me. But, at my age, it just doesn't float my boat.If you are a parent thinking about this for your kid, it is fairly clean with not a lot of innuendo (so far) and very little swearing (except one episode where one character uses God's name in vain, when it was unnecessary). However, for the most part, as far as I have gone in the series, there is very little swearing, which I believe is a plus.

not impressed with the covers but dvds work perfectly

Quality is good, original audio sounds good not much grain and appears a good transfer, just a shame season 2 is not available

Always Like This Series

As described

映像特典としてシーズン２から１話分が収録されていました。（「Legends」）「invisible woman」の回でなかったのが少し残念！シーズン２の発売が待ち遠しい！