24: The Complete Series box set: A review (with link)


24: The Complete Series 
  
  
Reviewer’s Note: This Epinion focuses solely on the 24: The Complete Series box set (DVD format) and its particular features.  It doesn’t contain any season-specific content. It doesn't discuss plot or characters, either. However, links to the author’s reviews of the seven seasons found in the Epinions database have been provided in the  Content section of this review: 

On November 6, 2001, the Fox television network aired the first episode of 24, a hybrid of the action/espionage/political thriller and nighttime soap opera genres. Created by Joel Surnow and Robert Cochran (La Femme Nikita) and starring Kiefer Sutherland as Federal counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer, 24 portrays the events of a single day in “real time.” 

The series ran for nine years and eight seasons – the seventh being delayed by almost a year due to the Writer’s Guild strike of 2007-2008; it spanned 192 regular episodes and a two-hour TV movie, Redemption.  On May 24, 2010, 24 ended its original TV run with a two-hour series finale. 20th Century Fox, which owns the rights to the show, is reportedly working on a feature film follow-up; production is scheduled to begin in the summer of 2013. 

24’s success was not only measured by its consistent high ratings, but also by sales of complete season box sets.  Each of the eight seasons has been released by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment on DVD, along with the 2008 TV movie Redemption, which was the “setup” story for Season Seven.  (The series’ seventh and eighth seasons are also available on Blu-ray.) 

24: The Complete Series - The Box Set     

On December 14, 2010, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released 24: The Complete Series, a 57-disc box set encompassing Seasons One – Eight, including Redemption and an exclusive Bonus Disc which contains several retrospective featurettes and an outtake from Season Eight titled Chloe’s Arrest. 
  
Although the manufacturer’s suggested retail price was a whopping $349.98, some stores (including Amazon) are selling it for $216.00.  

The Packaging: 20th  Century Fox Home Entertainment ensconces the 57 DVDs that comprise Seasons One – Eight and Redemption in nine multi-disc plastic cases.  These are contained in a slipcover package made of resilient (but hardly indestructible) cardboard.  The slipcover features the series’ “digital clock” 24 logo in yellow superimposed on a photo of a pistol-wielding Kiefer Sutherland.  The discs come in the “inner box” that you slide out of the slipcover’s outer shell and are arranged in chronological order. 

There is a small slot in one corner of the inner box which contains the Complete Series’ bonus disc.  Unlike the other DVDs in the set, this disc is protected by a laminated envelope which has a resealable flap. 

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