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Moonlight: The Complete Series
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Genre | Drama |
Format | Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, Dolby, NTSC |
Contributor | Sophia Myles, Alex O'Loughlin, Shannyn Sossamon, Jason Dohring |
Language | English |
Number Of Discs | 4 |
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Moonlight: The Complete Series (Corrected/DVD) Mick St. John is a captivating, charming -- and immortal -- private investigator from Los Angeles who defies the traditional bloodsucking norms of his vampire tendencies by using his wit and powerful supernatural abilities to help the living. In a life-altering twist of fate, Mick was bitten 60 years ago by his then-new bride, the seductive Coraline. Forever 30 years of age, Mick is as handsome and charismatic as the day he was "turned," and he eschews others of his kind who view humans only as a source of nourishment. With only a handful of like-minded confidantes for company, including the eternally young, wealthy and mischievous Josef, a hedge-fund trader who relishes his uniqueness, Mick fills his infinite days protecting the living, including beautiful, ambitious Internet investigative reporter Beth Turner.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 5.44 ounces
- Item model number : WHV1000213263DVD
- Media Format : Multiple Formats, Color, Box set, Dolby, NTSC
- Run time : 11 hours and 32 minutes
- Release date : May 31, 2011
- Actors : Jason Dohring, Alex O'Loughlin, Sophia Myles, Shannyn Sossamon
- Subtitles: : Thai, English
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Studio : WarnerBrothers
- ASIN : B004YPED14
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #45,857 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #7,785 in Drama DVDs
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Mick St. John (Alex O'Loughlin) is a private investigator in a town where there is little that surprises anyone - Los Angeles, California. But Mick has a secret that might surprise a few people - he's a vampire. Welcome to his world.
The death of a college co-ed brings BuzzWire internet reporter Beth Turner (Sophia Myles) into Mick's life - she's traipsing barefoot through a freezing fountain at 2 am in order to get a photo of the corpse. And on that corpse are what appear to be two bite marks. It seems to be the work of a vampire, assuming one believes in them. Mick's and Beth's paths keep crossing, as each tries to solve this mystery, for different reasons - what more logical than that they work together? Despite the fact that Mick tells her that he works alone. Why does Mick look familiar to Beth? She swears that she has seen him before.
It seems that Mick has a connection with Beth which goes back some 22 years, to the kidnapping of a 4 year old child. He protected her then from the very monster who was responsible for his being what he is - his ex wife Coraline (Shannyn Sossamon) - and he's protecting her now. He has a mentor named Josef (Jason Dohring), a 400 year old vampire who is a real wiz at business, although his people skills leave something to be desired, and Mick has a connection who works in the morgue, Guillermo (Jacob Vargas), one that supplies him with donated Red Cross blood. You see, Mick has principles, and one of them is that he will not drink human blood, voluntarily given or otherwise, directly from the source, and he will not kill humans, unless he has to.
The one season series revolves around Mick and Beth and their developing relationship. She struggles to remember where she knows him from, and when she thinks she recognizes him from the time of her abduction, he leads her off on other tangents. She has a relationship with a young man named Josh, who works in the DA's office. They've been together for a while. And yet it's obvious that she feels something for Mick, something that she cannot deny. And he would do anything for her.
Due to unexpected circumstances, Beth learns Mick's secret, and promises to keep it. The fact that she trusts him, and he trusts her with his secret, only serves to deepen their relationship. As the series progresses, this relationship sometimes puts her at odds with her assistant district attorney boyfriend, Josh, but she refuses to give up on Mick or their friendship, as they battle a crazed killer, a rogue vampire, a vicious ex and more. Tragedy nearly engulfs them - will what they have withstand it?
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I was smitten with Moonlight from the first episode. With Mick, with him and Beth, and with their love story, not to mention with the entire series. Mick St. John is an anti-vampire vampire. He refuses to kill for the sake of killing, he is swift to protect humans and vamps alike. He does his job as a private investigator and he does it well - watching him follow the scent at any given crime scene is amazing, not to mention he moves with an elegant grace all his own - but he also holds himself aloof, away from most others, except for Josef. Mick is a very multi-layered character, and he has an intriguing story, not the least of which is his relationship with Beth Turner, whom he first rescued as a small child from a crazed kidnaper, whom we learn was his ex, Coraline. He watched her grow over the next 22 years, and protected her, and when he came face to face with her, he fell deeply in love, although he tries desperately to hide that fact. Beth is a bright, lovely ambitious young woman with a nose for news and a high sense of morality. Their mutual attraction is inevitable.
Josef is a great foil for Mick - he is several times Mick's age, he's been around quite a bit, and he's very wealthy, but he does have something of an attitude problem. As Mick reminds him when he says, "I'm the only friend you have that doesn't like you for your money," to which Josef replies, "Oh yeah." One of my favorite episodes actually centers around Josef, combining a threat on his life with a trip into his past, for a very character revealing story, showing a more compassionate side of the cynical vampire.
Mick's relationship with the morgue attendant, Guillermo, has definite moments of humor, as Guillermo not only supplies Mick with the blood he needs to survive, from the donor supply, but also gives him access to the bodies in the morgue, which becomes very helpful in the course of his investigations. Beth has the same relationship with him, and she and Mick meet a few times that way, by chance. During a brief respite in Mick's vampire status, Guillermo complains that he has no one to sell Mick's preferred blood to, since he isn't consuming any - and the compassionate Mick helps him out of his bind.
The situation in the desert which marked the watershed of their relationship occurs in the desert, where Mick almost dies and Beth must take drastic measures to keep that from happening (naturally the desert is anathema to a vampire) A tragedy in Beth's life forces her to reevaluate her priorities and she takes a step back from Mick, blaming him not for what happened but not doing what she felt he could do about it, but of course it doesn't last. A person from Mick's past is also a threat to their happiness. Another one of my favorite lines is when Josef explains to Beth that in another life, Coraline was a courtesan, and Beth exclaims, "Oh, a hooker!"
The writing is very good, and the acting is wonderful, it's an excellent cast. Although before the series began, when it was still in the talk stage, Bruce Willis had been considered for the lead. What a different show that would have been. I like Bruce and all, but he does not have the same sexy presence that Alex O'Loughlin does, not by a long shot.
Over the course of the series, the writers developed their own vampire mythology, which was pretty unique as such things go. Their vamps walked in daylight, but it weakened them. Fire and silver were their enemies. Silver is generally reserved for those of the lycan persuasion - or werewolves. Fire - well, that makes sense, goes along with the whole weakened by the sun thing and heat in general. Garlic, holy water and crucifixes are no more powerful against vamps than humans. Mick does not sleep in a coffin, but in a large freezer. In the very first episode, Mick is speaking with a reporter, as if he is being interviewed, as we are introduced to him, and he actually lays all of the myths to rest in this unique and candid interview.
It's a shame that there are only 16 episodes of this wonderful series, it had many places yet to go, but its death can be attributed to the writer's strike that year. It wasn't the only casualty. Hope remained that there would eventually be a revival of the series, but I think those are long extinguished, as Alex O'Loughlin is busy with his new series, Hawaii 5-0, on CBS, and doing well. But at least we have these 16 episodes to remember it by, and even if the 16th wasn't meant to be a last one, it possesses its own form of closure, as we bid Mick and Beth a fond farewell.
One of the things I love about this series is that they take the stereotypical mythos about vampires and flips it on it's head. Sunlight doesn't kill vampires, but it does weaken them and can eventually kill them. A stake to the heart doesn't kill a vampire but it does paralyze a vampire (the main character, Mick St. John, equates Staking a Vampire to putting a human in handcuffs). Silver is poisonous to vampires (it burns, weakens and too much of it can kill a vampire). The most surefire way to kill a vampire is by beheading or flamethrower. Fire will burn a vampire to ash and nothing can live without a head.
Mick St. John is a Private Investigator and Beth Turner is a crime reporter for an online tabloid news site called Buzzwire. Josef Kostan is Mick's best friend, a baby-faced 400 year old vampire. Mick & Beth first team up (reluctantly on Mick's part with Beth insisting) to solve the grisly murder of a young co-ed that appears as if a vampire attacked her. Josef wants Mick to find the perpetrator to protect the Vampire Secret. Beth is looking for clues and evidence to add to her report. Will they solve the murder? Was it Vampire? Can Mick keep Beth safe as they get closer to solving the case?
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The series wins PCA award for 2008 and I can truly understand why. Without giving any of the story away all I can say is that ever since I laid eyes on it on DVD for the first time in March 2011, I can't begin to express a regret that this beautiful show had such a short life-span of 16 wonderful episodes to live.
Despite the shortness of the series, you will delight in getting all the unanswered questions answered in the 16 episodes - does it leave us wanting more - absolutely. I would give this show a 10 star rating for excellence. For someone who is as picky as I, this is a treasure that I won't be letting go any time soon, and no amount of money will let me part with it, I love it that much.