John from Cincinnati - The Complete First Season
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Garret Dillahunt, Greyson Fletcher, Willie Garson, Bruce GreenwoodDirector: Adam Davidson, Daniel Minahan, Ed Bianchi, Gregg Fienberg, Jeremy Podeswa
Studio: Hbo Home Video
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Running Time: 600 minutes
DVD Release: April 1st 2008
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DVD Review
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.
User Reviews
Fantastic - Rating: 5/5
The DVD set came so fast - it was only a couple of days and the set looks brand new. Thanks much for a good transaction
What a crying shame....cancelled? - Rating: 5/5
This show is one of the best ever produced. Maybe the best as far as quality story and actors. More than that it was so meaningful to the viewer it has to be called what it is: ART. David Milch should be freely allowed to make any show he wants to...for the good of society. Cancelling this show was a crime against society, and we are all the poorer for it. Gee, I wonder how this (and Deadwood's cancellation -plus the DW movies being axed) will affect Milch's muse.... will it make him create something SAFER? Something the network will actually allow to be created and shown? Thanks for leading, HBO, thanks for crushing the artist. At least give him two seasons! This show had something that is almost never touched on in TV - spirituality and man's place in relation to God. It had to be killed.
Still mourning this show's loss two years later!!! - Rating: 5/5
HBO really, really needs to revive this series. I still miss it two years later. One of the best I've seen in my 50 years. I grew up near the beach in CA and this show always made me imagine I could smell the salt air and hear the waves crashing against the shore. Each episode left me a little shocked, thinking and conversing more deeply than usual. Almost makes me want to take a trip back.
Milch should get out of the game ;-) - Rating: 1/5
I love HBO series, I really do. And I loved Deadwood, even though the third season petered out as Milch seemed to lose his nerve and promise a bloodbath that never came ( which took some guts, I guess, but cost the series in the ratings and may have caused its demise); As for John from Cincinatti, what can I say? Where can I begin?
"Milch should get out of the game"?
"What do you mean, Milchie Yost"?
"John will soon be gone ( and not a day too soon)"?
Despite great characters actors and an intriguing debut, the series flounders around the third episode and never breaks the surface again. Actors like rebecca de Mornay are evilly shortchanged, changing for the sake of the "storyline" from a nervous though reliable grandmother to a ball-breaking hysteric, if for no other reason then creating "conflict" where there is none. Intriguing characters get no story arc, do not evolve. As a viewer I tried to keep the faith, grasping at straws, giving Milch the benefit of the doubt. "maybe it'll get better at the end" "maybe some if not all things will be explained..." Actually, I was just trying to forget that these were 10 hours of my life I was not ever going to reclaim. The tenth episode must rate as one of the most pitiful end to a series, ever, with, I kid you not, the climax of this HBO series being a parade of six cars on a waterfront to peddle new swimwear ;-)
So OK OK, the religious, mystical content of the series was not lost on me. It just promised, and was incapable of delivering. Stay clear from this as you would avoid a dead whale on the beach.
surf peaks - Rating: 5/5
this is very cool stuff. twin peaks goes to the beach on bc bud. what's it all mean? i have no idea, but i sure like it. it might not be everyone's cup of joe, but just catch the wave and go with it. definately worthy of multiple viewings. i don't know who john is or who his father is and maybe it just doesn't matter....the yosts on you!!
surf on cass/kai.
