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Strangers with Candy - The Complete Series
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 60
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Editorial Review:
Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris) has been a runaway prostitute drug addict and general misfit all her life. But upon her release from prison the 46-year-old decides it's time to clean up her life move back in with her family and earn a high-school diploma. Starting over as a freshman hapless Jerri returns to class amidst a hostile student body and an unhelpful self-involved faculty--among them pseudo-sensitive art teacher Geoffrey Jellineck (Paul Dinello); ambiguously gay history teacher Charles Noblet (Stephen Colbert); and Machiavellian principal Onyx Blackman (Greg Hollimon)--while contending with a dysfunctional home life that includes her elderly father (Roberto Gari) evil stepmother (Deborah Rush) and bullying half-brother (Larc Spies). As ex-con Jerri maneuvers through the pecking order of teen life with zero social savoir-faire and her own brand of clueless prison ethics STRANGERS WITH CANDY serves as a biting politically incorrect satire of moralizing after-school specials and a hilarious look at the pangs of growing up--again. This collection presents the sadly defunct television series in its entirety with all three seasons.System Requirements:Running Time 660 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097368895942 Manufacturer No: 889594
Strangers With Candy - Season One
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Total reviews: 88
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
This show will change your life 5 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.
I almost had her face tattooed on my body. My sister and I quote it like bible verses. The line about " How many of you want to wake up in a public bathroom lying in s pool of what you HOPE is your own filth" is on my phone. Devotion, or obsession? I do not know but what I do know is this is Hilarious!
It's ridiculous but smart at the same time. My friend borrowed all three seasons from me one time and I got panicky.(Now he has my Arrested Development dvd and I feel that way again). Everyone I force to watch loves it...well all except one person. I won't mention her name, but we will never look at Liane the same way again.
Anyway if you have seen an episode or two on comedy central and trying to figure out which season to buy, Season One is my personal fav. Of course you'll end up with all three... its addicting. But yeah season one is just one perfect episode after another.
Editorial Review:
Everyone's favorite middle-aged high school student has finally come to DVD. Jerri Blank (Amy Sedaris), a self-described "user, boozer and loser," takes on the perils and pratfalls of high school in these ten classic episodes. A critic and cult hit, Comedy Central(r)'s Strangers with Candy twists the conventions of the classic after-school special to create a completely original comedy series.
Strangers With Candy - Season Two
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Total reviews: 34
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
None More Black 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful.
Strangers With Candy is a perfect send-up of insipid topical teen shows like My So-Called Life and the After School Specials that spewed conformist propoganda into the ears and eyes of America's youth every weekday afternoon during the 1980's. I remember watching it back when I had cable, as well as a slew of other top-notch shows that were on Comedy Central at the time (Upright Citizens Brigade, The Daily Show, South Park, T.V. Funhouse etc...). Strangers With Candy may not have been the best of these shows, or even the edgiest, but it very well may have been the darkest. South Park and T.V. Funhouse were/are certainly caustic and dark, but 'Strangers' was pitch black. This humor is truly without reverence. Nothing is sacred, all is petty, and the mere concept of morality itself becomes the joke.
Comedy Central is truly a great network. Whenever possible, complete creative freedom is given to (gasp!) the CREATORS of the show. Strangers With Candy certainly benefitted from this policy; its vision is clearly uncompromised. Every aspect of the production contributes to a consistent representation of a unified concept.
I recently rented the first and second seasons and the latter is the better of the two. I am looking forward to renting the third season. If you are a fan of black comedy, Strangers With Candy will tickle your funny bone - and then break it.
Strangers With Candy - Season Three
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Total reviews: 31
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
I've got something to say 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 9 people found this review helpful.
Strangers With Candy is by far one of the most brilliant cult series. Its brash and overtly racist and homo- (and hetero-) phobic views made it one of the greatest politically incorrect comedies. The anti-heroic characters are amazingly perfect and no doubt about it, the fact that a woman in lead role and a head writer makes it even better for its subculture overtones.
Season three pushed the limits of bad political tastes to the edge as Mr. Noblet (Stephen Colbert) says: "Fidel Castro dressed up like Marilyn Monroe and gave John F Kennedy of case of syphilis so bad that it eventually blew the back of his head off". Or how about Jerri's realization that she's a Native American: "I thought that being an Indian had to do with ethnic pride, love of the Earth and the return of rightful lands. But now I know that being an Indian is about drinking, gambling and scalping". Let's not forget Buddah Stalin being Flatpoint's Marylin Manson and Jerri's 10 minute hunger strike to prove that freedom belongs in a cage. Jerri's use of steroids and her sudden growth of a beard will always stay an unforgettable image in my brain!
The DVD itself is actually not as impressive as the first two. Sorely missed are the episode commentaries by Amy Sedaris, Stephen Colbert and Paul Dinello as in the season one and season two discs. The packaging is actually slightly annoying having the discs being in two separate plastic cases although the year book theme is interesting. The bonuses are interesting but nothing out of the ordinary. The bloopers could have had more blooper/outtake material and not just a collaboration of outtakes and 'best of'. The dance sequence 'medley' is so-so, not to mention the silent dance sequence. However the menu selection as an old projection reel is very innovative.
For these reason, I chose to give the DVD 4 stars as a whole NOT the actual series which is a 5!
Editorial Review:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 09/28/2004 Rating: Nr
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