Firefly – The Complete Series (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) Blu Ray – Nathan Fillion, Morena Baccarin

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray and will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Five hundred years in the future there&39;s a whole new frontier and the crew of the Firefly-class spaceship Serenity is eager to stake a claim on the action They&39;ll take any job legal or illegal to keep fuel in the tanks and food on the table But things get a bit more complicated after they take on a passenger wanted by the new totalitarian Alliance regime Now they find themselves on the run desperate to steer clear of Alliance ships and the flesh-eating Reavers who live on the fringes of space Actors Nathan Fillion Gina Torres Alan Tudyk Morena Baccarin Adam Baldwin Jewel Staite Sean Maher Summer Glau Ron Glass Christina Hendricks Mark Sheppard Michael Fairman Jeff Ricketts & Dennis Cockrum Certificate 12 years and over Year 2002 – 2003 Screen Widescreen 1781 Languages English

All 14 episodes of the sci-fi drama from writer Joss Whedon. Set 500 years in the future, after a galactic civil war has united all the space colonies under the repressive Alliance, former rebel soldier Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) captains the Firefly class cargo ship Serenity, taking on odd jobs and scoring heists where he can to keep his ship and his crew in the air, all the while trying to avoid the attentions of the authorities. The episodes are: ‘Serenity’, ‘The Train Job’, ‘Bushwhacked’, ‘Shindig’, ‘Safe’, ‘Our Mrs. Reynolds’, ‘Jaynestown’, ‘Out of Gas’, ‘Ariel’, ‘War Stories’, ‘Trash’, ‘The Message’, ‘Heart of Gold’ and ‘Objects in Space’.

Much praised and much missed after its premature cancellation, Firefly is the first SF TV series to be conceived by Joss Whedon, creator of Buffy and cocreator of Angel. Set five centuries in the future, it is a show where the mysterious personal pasts of the crew of the tramp spaceship Serenity continually surface. In fact, it’s a Western in space where the losers in a Civil War are heading out to a barren frontier. Mal Reynolds is a man embittered by the war, yet whose love of his comrades perpetually dents his cynicism–even in the 14 episodes that exist we see him warm to the bubbly young mechanic Kaylee, the preacher Book, the idealistic doctor Simon, even to the often demented River, Simon’s sister, the psychic result of malign experiments. Firefly is also about adult emotional relationships, for example Kaylee’s crush on Simon, the happy marriage of Mal’s second officer Zoe and the pilot Wash, the disastrous erotic stalemate between Mal and the courtesan Inara. Individual episodes deal with capers going vaguely wrong, or threats narrowly circumvented; character and plot arcs were starting to emerge when the show was cancelled. Fortunately, the spin-off movie Serenity ties up some of the ends; and in the meantime, what there is of Firefly is a show to marvel at, both for its tight writing and ensemble acting, and the idiocy of the executives who cancelled it. On the DVD: Firefly on DVD is presented in anamorphic 1.78:1 with Dolby Surround Sound. It includes commentaries on six episodes by various writers, directors, designers and cast members as well as featurettes on the conception of the show and the design of the spaceship Serenity, four deleted scenes, a gag reel, and Joss Whedon singing the show’s theme tune, more or less. One of the things that emerges from all of this is how committed to the project everyone involved with it was, and is–unusually, you end up caring as much for the cast and crew as for the characters.