CastLake Bell
Jay R. Ferguson
Carter Jenkins
Leighton Meester
Ian Anthony Dale
Eddie Hassell
Creators
Jonas Pate
Josh Pate
Running Time
10 Hours 34 Minutes NTSC
Aspect Ratio
1.78:1 Anamorphic
Something new is lurking in the Earth's oceans, and now you can be part of the mystery as all 15 episodes of The Complete Series of Surface emerges on to DVD for the first time ever! When young oceanographer Laura Daugherty (Lake Bell) discovers a massive underwater creature her obsession to uncover the origins of this dangerous "unidentified species" will lead her and others on a mysterious adventure through the darkest, deepest parts of the sea and the most sinister and shady places on Earth. The fate of the world is in their hands - they just don't know it. Including explosive new bonus features and phenomenal special effects, the amazing series that People magazine calls "a show with some Spielbergian tricks of suspense" is now the must-own DVD set for every fan!
I guess maybe a year and a half ago I saw the first two episodes of this show broadcast on ITV1 which were really great but then no more as it switched to ITV2 and I don't have digital. So I kept checking on DVD PriceCheck after the box set came out waiting for it to drop below £1 an episode which is my price ceiling for this stuff. It did and I bought it. Bloody hell do I regret that purchase!
First the "Including explosive new bonus features" mentioned in the blurb on the back are a few deleted scenes and a 8 minute featurette. The first two episodes are as good as I remember, they are really put together well with integrated digital effects that give it an [almost] action movie feel. The story is sort of a blend of Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and Jurassic Park but the quality of the show just drops like a stone a few episodes in and doesn't recover. Although they do at least give the story some resolution in the last episode.
Obviously the show was cancelled in it's first season so had that not happened things might have worked out differently but this is a train wreck and to be avoided at all costs!
