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If having the complete first season in one set doesn't please series fans, the supplemental features will surely satisfy even the iciest armchair operative. Disc 1 offers commentary by Surnow, Cochran, and director Jon Cassar on "Nikita" as well as commentary by Surnow for deleted scenes from several episodes (also on discs 2, 3, and 6); disc 6 features Surnow's comments on "Mercy," as well as "Section One Declassified: The Making of La Femme Nikita," which features interviews with the cast and creators. --Paul Gaita
| ACTORS: | Peta Wilson |
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 1997 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Warner Home Video |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Color, Closed-captioned |
| TYPE: | Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| # OF MEDIA: | 6 |
| UPC: | 085392377626 |
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Buy this DVD "La Femme Nikita" is probably one of the best American TV series ever made. The creators (also did "24") took their inspiration from the brilliant French film "Nikita" but added a twist -- in the TV series, Nikita is not a cold-blooded murderer. This fact leads to the seminal conflict in the series -- the moment Section One believes that she is innocent of the crime that put her in prison, they will kill her, so to stay alive, she must become a killer. The TV series also trumps the movie in another aspect -- it emphasizes how totally and completely alone Nikita is by making outside relationships impossible and by constantly twisting Michael's love for her into nothing more than a Section mission. Finally, analogies have been made between Nikita's relationship with Section and grind of the corporate world, an interesting spin on the world of anti-terrorism organizations.
The sets are sexy and stylish -- Section One is a sort of futuristic police department driven solely by technology (as Joel Surnow says in the Special Features, you will never see a piece of paper in Section). The performances are outstanding (both the chemistry between Nikita and Michael and the animosity between Nikita and Operations are electric), the music is edgy (Holly Cole singing "Jersey Girl" is an example) and the resulting series is fantastic.
Created at a time when women action heroes in TV were unheard of, "La Femme Nikita" broke barriers in conception, production and execution and still manages to make "Alias" look like summer camp. Buy this DVD and you will not be disappointed.
Killer, sort of
It sounds about as appealing as reheated Freedom Fries:
Take a stylish and influential action film by a top French director. Remove all things French -- except for the title. Transform lead character from cold-blooded killer to spunky innocent. Pump up babe and hunk factor. Add stock characters such as computer whiz kid. Boil it all down to an hour and serve weekly on U.S. cable for five years. Mon dieu!
But things are never as they seem in the shadowy world of "La Femme Nikita." The TV series was, in fact, far better than it had to be, maintaining a loyal and highly interactive fan base during its 1997-2001 run on USA Network. Warner Home Video delivers the evidence in "La Femme Nikita: The Complete First Season," a slick and sexy six-disc set.
The show's look was more John Woo than Luc Besson -- slow-motion violence and clandestine doings set in shadows and dramatic lights. Close-ups tended toward the extreme, the better to catch all those meaningful glances. On the DVD, the visuals look fine, with little grain and lots of high-tech colors on all those old-school computer screens.
The soundtrack -- full of under-the-radar indie music collected by Blaine Johnson -- has aged well. Composer Sean Callery's work anticipated the call of techno. Audio on the DVD set proves lively, with the stereo mix capably delivering the beeps, chirps and explosions.
The show's creators, who went on to make "24," have a good time providing gang commentary for the first episode; producer Joel Surnow goes it alone for the season's cliffhanger ending.
A new making-of featurette checks in with the actors, who don't have a lot to add, but the piece will be fun for fans. A lot is made of star Pita Wilson's fashion sense, but check out her getup in the interview: Yipes! Commentary is optional on the "cancelled scenes" (show lingo for scenes that were killed).
Incredible
La Femme Nikita was one of the best TV shows of the last decade, a few notable others being Babylon 5 and Twin Peaks. Several other good TV series that had potential got canned early on, like Firefly and VR-5 (the latter being a bit corny trying to masquerade sci-fi as reality). LFN is truly one of the best.
Watch LFN as an allegory of the corporate world, as a warning about the future of intelligence agencies and the cold war/hawk ideology, as a defense of the concept of destiny/duty, or as an exploration of social relationships, love, and hate. It doesn't matter. LFN is exquisite in every respect.