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The late Anthony Minghella’s last project, “The No.
1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” arrived on HBO with a mixture
of sadness and joy. The series based on the popular best-selling
novels by Alexander McCall Smith the show tells the story
of Precious the first detective agency owned by a woman
in her country of Bostwana. The series which is shot on
location in Bostwana features a cavalcade of guest stars
and the stories which focus on everything from cheating
husbands to kidnapped children is a joy to watch. Featuring
a cast that includes Colin Salmon, CCH Pounder, Idris Elba,
David Oyelowo, Desmond Dube and Lucian Msamati the show
has nice production values with top flight direction particularly
from Minghella on the pilot episode. ---
Image & Sound:
The show looks extremely good in its DVD debut. Colors
are strong, detail and clarity remarkably good. There are
occasion digital artifacts that crop up such as aliasing
but on the whole the show looks quite good. ***
Audio sounds extremely nice with a very strong 5.1
mix that has nice ambient textures to it. It is however
primarily dialogue driven so keep that in mind. ---
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