John from Cincinnati - The Complete First Season | John from Cincinnati

John from Cincinnati - The Complete First Season | John from Cincinnati | This is very nearly the greatest single season's worth of television show in history.

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	John from Cincinnati - The Complete First Season John from Cincinnati Hbo Home Video, 2008 average customer review:based on 31 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Just north of the border in the tired coastal town of Imperial Beach CA live three generations of Yosts: surfing royalty turned society misfits. The Yost's reign and reputation once defined in the cure of a perfect wave has been eroded by years of bad luck addiction and hubris. But just as things are looking like they can't get worse a stranger named John arrives - and the Yost's banal existence is lifted into something profound miraculous and possibly universal.Running Time: 600 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/HBO UPC: 883929007820 Manufacturer No: 1000036721

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John From Cincinatti Needs To Get Back In The Game

I, like many fans of hbo shows such as entourage, curb, flight of the conchords and six feet under, wanted so very much to love this show, especially since it was being filmed right down my block (literally)...however, upon watching the first handful of shows I grew impatient and downright bored...after which I continued to bash the show, even more so after it was cancelled after 10 episodes...fast forward a year and a clean slate in my mind...JFC goes on sale for 20 bucks and out of nostalgia sakes and the fact that it may some day become out of print, I decide to buy it...fast forward two days from that and I am now extremely pissed off that the show was cancelled...this show is very dynamic and the characters and the way things shape up around John is awesome...Brilliant writing, Shaun Yost still sucks at acting, but whatever, Butchie, John, Bill and Vietnam Joe are awesome, and seeing Zack Morris back on tv was cool too. Buy JFC and who knows, one day it may get back in the game.

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This is very nearly the greatest single season's worth of television show in history.

Let me say right off the get go that I have not actually seen the DVD's of the series so I cannot attest to the kind of job that HBO did; although my experience with like products from HBO has been very good.

I have seen the series and taped the episodes. I have viewed every episode several times and I never tire of this thing. I was and am a huge fan of the HBO series Six Feet Under. The first season of that series is in my view the best single season of any program in history...well, it was until John From Cincinnati. They are neck and neck.
The creativity is extraordinary. The conversations between characters is dance like...in fact if you loved the dialogue in DEADWOOD you will love this.

Remember when you were a kid and you could run up to a group of children your own age that were say;digging a hole to China or building some contraption?. You didn't know them and they didn't know you, but within seconds you were participating in something. That is the magical quality in human beings(lost by the time we are adults) that is depicted in JFC. That quality is our salvation. We have but to re-connect with it.
The series helps in that effort just a bit, so that makes it more than worthwhile.

If you are a creative type in love with deep plots where there is more going on than meets the eye, you will no doubt enjoy this and could probably buy it sight unseen and be happy. However, If the programing regularly seen on the major broadcast networks is your idea of superior entertainment; you should refrain from buying JFC until you have seen it.

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It shouldn't have been cancelled!

I missed it when it was current and only recently saw a couple of episodes, but I didn't see it from the beginning. I quickly realized that I wanted to see it in sequence and I ordered the set. This was a spectacular show with a tremendous balance of mystery, revelations, great acting performances, superb casting and terrific story development.

Rebecca de Mornay may have provided her best performance ever. You probably have never seen someone who allows her ball-busting demons such free reign. Her bitch roots might startle you, but they are presented quickly and then left behind in the dust of yet another set of revelations.

I couldn't decide how I felt about Greyson Fletcher's performance. It was either a very weak performance, or Shaun was supposed to be a blank slate and character development was cut off by the premature cancelling of the show.

Willie Garzon, Luiz Guzman, Dayton Callie, Paul Ben-Victor and especially Ed O'Neill form a brilliant tribe of support characters for this story line.

Unfortunately it was cancelled and we are left hanging. I would very much like the show's creators to provide some sort of wrap up for the project for clarification. The show's last episode started with the brilliant John and Shaun sequence, but seemed to fade to grey shortly after that. It ended with a limp and a whimper, but everything up to that was well worth seeing.

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HIghly original series

Unlike some other five star reviewers of JFC, I won't pretend like I"m in some special club because I "got" this show. It took me a while to realize what I was looking at-going to wikipedia and getting a brief character background helped make a little order out of chaos. I'd say the pacing is like "Deadwood" with content more similar to "Carnivale". That is, its not really casual viewing, some things you'll need to draw your own conclusions from, it does not guide you to any. At this price, get it because who knows how long it will be around....

The word love is not strong enough. (See God Kai)

You either get this show or you don't. You'll know by the 2nd episode which group you are in. Nothing against those who didn't get it (a few of whose reviews you can read here). Those people should move on to the next HBO show. This is not your typical HBO, or any other network for that matter, show. I think you need to be able to do three things to appreciate this show. 1) Have a more-or-less spiritual point of view on life, 2) Be willing to live with ambiguity for a little while, and 3) Have compassion for the humans.

If you can do those three things, you may love this show. I did. I have watched the season twice, and will probably watch it again once or twice a year. It solidified something very important in me. That God's (or whatever you want to call it) grace is not selective. That everyone and anyone is eligible. That healing can occur. That miracles do occur.

I had not watched any of Milch's series before this. I wasn't a Soprano's fan, wasn't a Deadwood fan - I don't even get HBO. I wait for DVD's. I think David Milch must have a touch of the divine in him (as we all probably do) to have conceived of this show. I love the show, and I love him for creating it. Are you going to like it?

I don't know, Butchie, instead. :-)

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