Rizzoli & Isles: Season 3

Description

Talk about hitting the ground running: as this
third season of TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles (with 15 episodes, plus bonus material,
on three discs) opens, Boston detective Jane Rizzoli (Angie Harmon) has just
shot the father of her best friend, forensic pathologist Dr. Maura Isles
(Sasha Alexander), who had only recently discovered that said dad is a
notorious mob boss suspected of multiple murders. The shooting itself took
place at the end of the previous season, but the ripple effect is strong this
time out, as the usual banter between the brilliant but somewhat clueless
Maura (Rizzoli calls her “the dumbest genius I know”) and the more roughhewn
and street-wise Jane takes on a decidedly nasty, if still amusing, edge for
the first couple of episodes (Maura: “Drive straight past the coniferous
spruce.” Jane: “Sure, maybe I’ll pass the hemlock, too”). The repartee
continues throughout the season, as the pair trade witty bons mots while they
and the other cops are solving various murder cases, some of them gripping
(human trafficking, a serial killer) and others laughably absurd (two brothers
in a rock group kill their third bro, who’s also a member, thinking it will
boost the band’s record sales; an ex-Army Ranger turned yoga guru garrotes a
young environmentalist who was on to his sinister oil-fracking scheme).
Looming large over all of these scenarios are Rizzoli and Isles’ crazily
tangled family dramas. Aside from her gangster father, Maura has a birth
mother (a doctor played by Sharon Lawrence) who thinks she’s dead and doesn’t
react well when informed otherwise. Then there’s Jane’s dad (a cameo by Chazz
Palminteri), who wants estranged wife Angela (Lorraine Bracco in a recurring
role) to grant him an annulment so he can marry a much younger woman–who just
happens to have had an affair with Tommy (Colin Egglesfield), Jane’s brother.
Throw in the two leads’ various romantic entanglements, and you’ve got a show
that’s as much supermarket tabloid as cop drama. So Rizzoli & Isles isn’t as
hard core as, say, Southland. That’s cool; all it’s trying to be is
entertaining, and on that level, this show is a winner. –Sam Graham

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: Drama, Suspense
• Format: Multiple Formats, AC-3, Box set, NTSC, Dolby, Widescreen, Subtitled, Color
• Contributor: Brian Goodman, Bill Haber, Bruce McGill, Michael Katleman, Jordan Bridges, Angie Harmon, Janet Tamaro, Tess Gerritsen, Lee Thompson Young, Sasha Alexander, Lorraine Bracco See more
• Language: English
• Number Of Discs: 3
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ NR (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.8 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ 26411314
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ Multiple Formats, AC-3, Box set, NTSC, Dolby, Widescreen, Subtitled, Color
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 10 hours and 45 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ June 11, 2013
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Angie Harmon, Sasha Alexander, Jordan Bridges, Lee Thompson Young, Brian Goodman
• Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ French, Thai
• Producers ‏ : ‎ Janet Tamaro, Bill Haber, Michael Katleman