Hustle – The Complete Season Three (BBC)
Picture:
B- Sound: C+ Extras: B- Episodes: B+
This
British TV Series will have you paying attention the whole time. Hustle
- Season 3 is an exciting drama with a very different angle on some funny
comedy. The show has you all over London
a these grifters (as they are called, if you missed the film if the same name)
or maybe as the everyday common people would like to call them con
artists. These five very intelligent
artists with point man (Adrian Lester where you might know him from Mike
Nichols’ Primary Colors) Michael
Stone better known as Mickey Bricks, next Danny who plays the young leader
trying to learn yet always compete with Mickey (Marc Warren in upcoming movie Wanted with Angelina Jolie and Common),
Robert Glenister who plays Ash Morgan really doesn't switch up from seasons
before is the hacker who can do and get anything for their cons.
Then
there is Robert Vaughn, who is Albert Stroller is the man who finds the Mark
for the con to start you will know Mr. Vaughn from classics like The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (finally
arriving on DVD), How To Steal The World
and even a couple of episodes in The
A-Team. Last but not least Jamie
Murray, who has stared in movies like Botched
she plays the women in the crew she still helps in all the clutch times.
Like the
first two seasons, it takes a lot of the same film positions such as stopping
all characters besides the con's to motivate each other to convince the
mark. Even at the end when Micky’s Plan
Bs need explaining they slow down and have a character narrate what they did. The combination of good writing and the
chemistry of this cast is a winner.
Even
after you get a chance to take your eye off our great grifters, the extra guest
and co-stars play their roles well too.
This particularly applies to the last episode where the team is being
framed by the police, forcing them to team up with a thief Paul Nicholls. Hustle is a crossover hit that will only
continue to gain popularity, with the DVDs issued to date only helping the
cause.
This two-DVD
set runs 345 mins is and its 1.78 X 1 HD image is 16 X 9 enhanced for this
set. All episodes have Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo and playback is just fine, like the last set we looked at. There are not hardly any special features,
but we do get the interview featurette entitles It's just like playing. Hope
there’s more on the next set.
- Jon Brunetti
