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Unfortunately winning a Peabody award doesn’t guarantee
that your show will be returning to TV. “Brotherhood” is
an example of an excellent TV series that very few people
actually saw and that’s too bad. Featuring a stellar cast
with Jason Isaacs (the “Harry Potter” series of films),
Annabeth Gish, Ehtan Embry, Jason Clarke (“Public Enemies”)
the series concluded explosively. If you’re going to dig
into “Brotherhood” start with season one and work your way
through to the third season. ---
Unfortunately the third season like the two previous
seasons are relatively short (something that has been carried
over from British TV shows where seasons could run anywhere
from 4 to 20 episodes)so be aware that you’re not getting
20 episodes here just eight over two discs. I’m not really
complaining per se because it comes down to the quality
of the show vs. the amount of episodes. ***
With the third season gangster Michael Caffee (Jason
Isaccs) finds that the big chair isn’t always the best seat
to be in; he’s in the crosshairs of many people including
recently released Freddie Cork (Kevin Chapman) while Michael’s
brother Tommy (Jason Clarke) wants to leave politics behind
and be under the radar with his family. Their mother Rose
(Fionnula Flanaga)faces her own failing health struggling
to hold on to her own power over her family. Declan (Ethan
Embry) faces his own struggles trying to make peace with
his wife and move on with his life. ***
The good news is that creator Blake Masters manages
to wrap up most of the storylines of the previous two seasons
in the last eight episodes of the series. While there were
some strands left frayed and strings untied, they were fairly
minor subplots and Masters manages to pull it all together
in a powerful effective final eight episodes. ***
Disc 1-Uneasy Lies The Head, Things Badly Begun, Let
Rome Into Tiber Melt, The Course of True Love Did Run Smooth
Disc 2-Give Me The Ocular Proof, The Chimes at Midnight,
All the Intermim is Like a Phantasma, Birnam Wood Come to
Dunsinane
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