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Slings & Arrows: The Complete Collection
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 38
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Slings & Arrows Is Not To Be Missed! 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.
Having attended the Stratford Festival in the past, this was a perfect compliment/send-up of what it could be like to mount a Shakespearean festival. Not only is this witty, well-written and well-acted; but it also provides short excerpts from Hamlet, Macbeth & King Lear. Just wish they had done more than three seasons. My only complaint is that the "extras" CD was not very informative.
theatre lovers' treat 5 out of 5 stars.
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This series is a total delight for devotees of theatre - you just hate for it to be over.
Very funny show, wish there were more episodes! 5 out of 5 stars.
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We started watching this show in the middle of the first season and loved it immediately. Althought the show was excellent with each episode standing alone; once we purchased the whole series it was even better to watch the episodes we had already seen because now we knew the back story of the characters and they had more depth and meaning. This show has outrageously funny scenes but also has subtle humor that is different from many of the same old cookie cutter sitcoms we seem to find on the mainstream channels.
Editorial Review:
Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 02/05/2008 Run time: 840 minutes Rating: Nr
Slings & Arrows - Season 1
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Total reviews: 52
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Loved it. Absolutely brilliant. 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is a wonderful TV show -- intelligently written, funny, complex and superbly acted. Perfect for theatre lovers, fans of good drama or tart comedy, and anyone looking for TV shows that elevate the medium and have real substance. And, god, Paul Gross is a marvelous actor!!
Just for reference, other favorite shows of mine include "Freaks & Geeks," "My So-Called Life," "Six Feet Under," "Rome," "West Wing" "Buffy," "Prime Suspect" and a few others... This one easily rises towards the top of the list. Highly recommended. (Joe Sixpack, Slipcue)
A "must see" for any current, would-be, or once-was actor 5 out of 5 stars.
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This splendid series is loosely based on the Stratford Shakespearean Festival held annually in Ontario. There are parallel story lines -- romance within and across generations, corporate backstabbing, a nagging yet helpful ghost -- but the most compelling theme addresses the craft of acting. When the burned-out actor turned director instructs his Ophelia and his Hamlet, you know you're hearing echoes of theatrical truth going back to Richard Burbage and beyond, even unto the Greeks. When the stage ingenue finds it amusing that her movie star boyfriend (who took a theater gig to improve his acting cred) might have learned something from Hollywood director Ron Howard, she is reminded that "he's been around actors since he was, like, three years old."
To date I've seen only season one, and am looking forward to the others. It's sophisticated comedy with just enough drama to elevate it to a genre of its own. I can't recommend it highly enough, particularly to those who have "trod the boards." (The witty barroom song during the opening credits deconstructs "Hamlet" as well as any lit-crit you're likely to encounter!)
Editorial Review:
Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 06/27/2006 Run time: 276 minutes Rating: Nr
Slings & Arrows - Season 2
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Total reviews: 25
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Macbeth Proves Worthy 5 out of 5 stars.
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Incredibly, spectacularly, this, the second season, is even better than the incomparable first season. What in the end sets this show apart is the uniformly superb acting. We thought, perhaps, that the first season's ensemble was thrown together by chance but, no, there are geniuses at work here. As a result, we have that rarest of rarities, the perfect second season. No doubt, Canadians have come to expect this kind of thing, namely, wit, intelligence, grace, and subtlety, but here in the States, these features left television long ago. Our shows about thugs and killers have, it must be said, grown more sophisticated, but our comedies have fallen to the lowest possible level, besides possessing the fatalist of all flaws: they are not in the least funny. In "Slings and Arrows" there are all sorts of wonderful features: witty dialog, satire, romance, intellectual content, drama... It's really too much. I am totally addicted to this show and already dread the day when I must say I have seen the entire series.
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Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: 10/24/2006 Run time: 282 minutes Rating: Nr
Slings & Arrows - Season 3
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Total reviews: 32
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
It's a shame that there aren't more shows this good on TV, and now it's gone. Well, Slings and Arrows always was conceived by its creators to be a set of three seasons, and so after two tremendous offerings it comes to its third and final set of episodes about the backstage drama, onstage embarrassments, and personal trials and tribulations of the staff and actors of the fictional New Burbage Theatre Festival. Following the show's conceit of using plotlines that parallel the Shakespeare play being performed--Hamlet in season one and Macbeth in season two—this season sees artistic director Geoffrey Tenant (Paul Gross) mounting an ambitious production of King Lear with a lead actor (William Hutt as the aptly named Charles Kingman) who begins to literally live the role. Meanwhile the festival's general manager, Richard (Mark McKinney), deals with the unexpected burdens brought by the critical and financial success of their last production, continuing the show's structure of dual plotlines that focus on the artistic and financial aspects of theatre, detailing how inextricably the two are linked. Richard joins forces with flamboyant director Darren Nichols (Don McKellar) tries to top it with East Hastings, a contemporary musical about a heroin-addicted hooker with a heart of gold. As the musical becomes a big hit, Lear turns into a train wreck, and Geoffrey and Richard are both forced to make big decisions that have huge consequences for the Festival staff and actors. Such is the nature of outrageous fortune. It's bittersweet to see a show this well done come to an end. On the one hand, three seasons seems like such a short run for such a good program. On the other hand, it's good to see it go out on a high note, and the addition of extra features on this set, including extended interviews, deleted scenes, production notes, and more, should help serious fans through their withdrawal. --Daniel Vancini
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