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#PROFILER SEASON 1 PLUS#
(This especially if you overlook occasional lapses, such as “Learning From The Masters,” where a one-armed killer who poses his victims like famous paintings ties up Sam to resemble Joan of Arc during a commercial break - and apparently without any resistance from her.) With 21 episodes on six discs (episode number four, “I’ll Be Missing You,” is not included, and the first features separate commentaries by the entertainingly bright Walker and Robert Davi, who played her complicated boss, Bailey Malone), plus “Profiles of Evil: Inside the Criminal Mind,” from A&E’s American Justice series, the set offers a welcome return to the series’ strongest point, before it resorted more or less regularly to gimmicks. (Poor Jamie Luner, who played the replacement profiler, Rachel Burke, for a season, came in when the show was already tired out, 1999-2000).Īs A&E Home Video’s new DVD collection demonstrates, the first season of the series was, for the most part, terrific - innovative, socially progressive, emotionally complex. While the show had trouble with the first, it did very well with the second… at least until Ally Walker left in 1999. Second, it had to provide an emotional thread, a character or characters with whom viewers might identify. First, it had to come up with a new lunatic, with a new target and a new means of slicing and dicing every week. Inspired at least in part by the popularity and critical success of 1991’s Silence of the Lambs, Profiler faced two potential obstacles immediately.
#PROFILER SEASON 1 SERIAL#
First appearing on NBC in 1996, Cynthia Saunders’ innovative series focused on Samantha Water (Ally Walker), an intuitive FBI profiler whose cases tend to involve serial killers - calculating, nasty, creative psychos. And whether you see them as engendering faith in forensics or exploiting trendy techno soundtracks, Alias, CSI, and Without a Trace can trace their roots to Profiler. Police procedural shows are everywhere these days. You live with a woman? Is that an alternative lifestyle sort of thing?
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Grace Alvarez (Roma Maffia), “Unholy Alliance” We’re fighting violent crimes and they’re creating the most violent weapons on the face of the earth.