Mile High: Season One
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Episodes: C+
Wow, this
show was a heck of a ride! For your
viewing pleasure Mile High: Season One
is now available on DVD. The show that
contains sex, violence, drugs, alcohol, full frontal nudity, piercing, royalty,
cross dressers, adultery, and basically every other thing the Bible tells us
not to do is on a nice, compact, Fresh 4-disc set. The series Mile High takes audiences through the lives of eight very messed up
individuals. The main premise is there
are eight individuals who spend their days and nights working for an airline,
while trying to maximize the time they are having fun and getting laid. There is Lehann who is hiding a child, Emma
who married one man but is in love with another, John who only came back to
mess with Emma, Janis a cold hard bitch with more issues than one can write,
Will the boastful homosexual on board, Marco the ‘innocent’ new guy, the sex
crazed Jason, and the all around falling apart girl K.C.
It is difficult
to put into a nice package what this series is, when the series itself does not
seem to know what it is going on.
Sometimes (like the season opener) you feel like you are watching a
delightful comedy, but other times the storylines become so deep and convoluted
audiences may think they are watching an episode of Law and Order: SVU. The show
is wacky. The show is fun. The show is all around interesting. The eight individuals who work for Fresh
Airlines are just a bunch of messed up sods, hoping to make it to
tomorrow. Viewing this series makes one
wonder if they will even make it through the flight!?!
This 13
episode, 4-disc DVD set is not very impressive in its technical features. The picture is presented in a compressed 1.33
X 1 Full Screen that often feels squashed and occasionally out of frame. The picture is all around not great, the
colors most of the time have a neon appearance that are distracting and too
bright. Also the picture never seems to
be the clearest, being somewhat reminiscent of an analog VHS. The sound is slightly better than the picture
debacle in its Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, but even the sound has issues of
sounding compressed and distant, which means forget about surrounds. After watching almost 11 hours of these characters
develop it would have been nice to see some commentaries and other extras, but
sadly the 4-disc set contains none.
The show
is a bit odd and off the wall, but come on they are British. The crew of Fresh Air managed to keep this
reviewer entertained; even though it was not always certain if the show was a
comedy, drama, or something else all together.
Many of the characters will not be returning for a second season sadly,
but be on the look out for your flying friends who are never afraid to tell you
to “Piss Off!” when Season Two Volume 1
and Volume 2 are released
simultaneously and we’ll cover them upon arrival.
- Michael P Dougherty II
