Mile High – Season 2, Part 1 & Part 2 (Koch DVD Sets)
Picture:
C Sound: C Extras: D Episodes: C
The
series of Mile High all together
baffles this reviewer. The series in Season One started off slow, then got
much better and even intriguing, but in the end turned ridiculous and
outlandish. Season One ended on an odd note where much of the cast was
disbanded, only leaving several original cast members intact. Season
Two (both Parts 1 and 2) follows
the same unusual path of being all over the place and half way through the 26
episode Season switching up the cast. By
the end of Season 2 only three
original members of Mile High
remain, can you guess who?
The
British series Mile High, released
by KOCH Vision, is definitely
something else. As a basic premise the
series is just a show that follows the lives of a group of flight attendants,
but underneath it is much more. The show
is full of sex, deceit, violence, money, alcohol, drugs and everything in between;
and is not ashamed of it one bit. There
seem to always be new faces amongst the FRESH Crew and if they start out as a
normal individual, they soon enough get pulled into the debauchery of the rest
of the hoard. Whereas the show is
addictive to a degree, it quickly becomes a monotonous bore.
Each
Season features 13 episodes, on a 4-disc DVD set just like the Season One presentation. Also just like Season One, the technical features are not very impressive and
lacking to a fair degree. The picture once again is presented in a
compressed 1.33 X 1 Full Screen/Frame that often feels squashed and
occasionally out of frame; why did they not learn from the bad Season One release? The picture
quality is by no means great, the colors mostly have a neon appearance that are
all too distracting and bright. The unclear nature of the picture is
disappointing and often is somewhat reminiscent of an analog VHS tape.
The sound once again is slightly better than the picture debacle in its Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo, but even the sound has issues of constantly being
compressed and distant, which means forget about surrounds. After
watching almost 10 hours of these characters develop throughout each Part 1 and 2 it would have been nice to see some commentaries and other
extras, but sadly , just as on Season
One, the 4-disc sets contains none.
The show
is quoted as being ‘terrifically
filthy…devilishly addictive’ by Entertainment
Weekly on each box arts for Season 2, but falls short of both
adjectives. Where as the series
definitely had its moments, in the end it crashed and burned with its
monotonous sexual antics that were surprising at first but quickly turned
boring and predictable. As stated by
this reviewer concerning Season One
of Mile High, the series is never
quite sure if it is a comedy, drama, or Cinemax
late night special, which in some cases would be exciting but in the case of
this series is just poorly executed.
This reviewer had high hopes for Mile High, but only managed to rise
inches above mediocre.
- Michael P Dougherty II
