Information is the most addictive drug of all.
Winner of the Gemini for best drama and many other awards, this pulse-pounding series explores espionage in the international drug trade and beyond. The story centers around Jimmy Reardon (Ian Tracey), a Vancouver drug lord trying to go legit, and Mary Spalding (Klea Scott), the head of the Canadian intelligence service for the Pacific region. Although they work on opposite sides of the law, Reardon and Spalding form an uneasy undercover alliance to protect their turf from rivals inside and outside their organizations. All loyalties are negotiable in this high-stakes game, and the players use money, sex, drugs, and murder to secure the most powerful commodity of all–information.
Combining the crime family drama of The Sopranos with the sophisticated intrigue of The Wire, this critically acclaimed series spins a dark, daringly complex narrative web that ranks it among television’s best.
DVD FEATURES INCLUDE series creator Chris Haddock discussing Season 2, behind-the-scenes clips, Chris Haddock biography, character descriptions, cast filmographies, and more.
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- Factory sealed DVD
The biggest mistake made was ending this jewel I don’t know what happened for the Canadian Broadcasting Company to end this series but whoever did it made a huge mistake. It definitely warranted two or more additional seasons. But it is a jewel that I watch over and over. Half of this story is about a major Canadian pot smuggler who is kind, considerate and a good father despite the situations he must get into to maintain a marijuana trade and laundering the fortunes of money he makes because he brings it in much faster than he can spend…
This is a great series, probably my favorite This is a great series, probably my favorite. Few shows about espionage reach the quality and realism of this show. (The Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy shows, The Sandbaggers, and The Americans are very good, too.) Season Two has different concerns than Season One, with Mary Spalding now making the move over to CSIS. Some thread plots from the first season are left behind as the series focuses more on conducting counter-intelligence and developing foreign intelligence than on doing police work in…
Great Canadian drama from the man who brought us DaVinci’s Inquest. Some say that season two of Intelligence lost its way. I disagree. Canadian Chris Haddock is a master of taking the everyday ordinary interactions (even of drug kingpins) and making it fascinating. He created Jimmy Reardon (who ought to be in prison) and makes us like him and root for him. He has a crazy ex-wife, a young impressionable daughter and just happens to own a strip club and deal drugs. And finds himself working with the intelligence service. Ah, just a day in the life… Very sorry…