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The L Word - The Complete Seasons 1-3

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Disappointed 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

The item was not for me. I have never seen this program. Looks interesting and fun, but i was not very happy paying £16.08 in custom charges, when it was not made clear to me. If i would have known i wouldn't of got it. I didn't get it from the UK site because you don't sell it.

That said nothing damaged worked fine and the person was pleased.

L-Word complete seasons 1 - 3 5 out of 5 stars.
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great product at a great price, no hassles with sending a second item when the first one got lost in transit, thanks :)

just great 5 out of 5 stars.
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i love this show and to receive a three season disc pack means hours of entertainment.

Well written 5 out of 5 stars.
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I only started watching the L Word in Iraq i was kind of bored saw it and thought wow looks interesting. And by golly it was. It is indeed a well written drama I love Beth she is my fav on the show. I am looking forward to seeing the 5th season which I haven't seen none of the espisodes yet.

Editorial Review:

This 3 pack includes the first 3 seasons of Showtime's popular series The L Word. The hit show, The L Word, follows a group of friends - both gay and straight - through stories of career, family, inner struggle, friendship and romantic relationships. Stars Jennifer Beals, Erin Daniels, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Mia Kirshner, Katherine Moennig, Sarah Shahi, Rachel Shelley and Pam Grier.

Lexx - Series 2, Vol. 1

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

A crew of misfit outlaws wanders the galaxy in a living ship. Sound familiar? Doomed to live in the shadow of cable TV's science fiction class act Farscape, the Canadian-German coproduction Lexx takes a completely different trajectory as a tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi sex farce. Sad sack pilot Stanley Tweedle, coquettish love slave Xev, reanimated corpse Kai, and lovesick robot head 790 wander the galaxy looking for food, people, and (most importantly) a little nookie. Shot on the cheap with loads of flashy (if often unconvincing) digital effects and a rather claustrophobic series of studio-bound sets, the show launched with a quartet of TV movies before settling into a weekly series with its second season. Mantrid launches the Lexx into a funhouse galaxy of wacky worlds, where the dreaded insect king awakes and begins his bizarre reign of terror. Terminal takes them to a mercenary deep space hospital where the doctors' specialty is saving the patient's money and discarding the useless body. The hilarious Lyekka guest stars Stephen McHattie as a drawling, hick astronaut and introduces the pixielike Lyekka, a curvy little plant girl with an insatiable appetite for human flesh (bye-bye astronauts), but most importantly it replaces platinum blonde Eva Haberman with the impishly flirtatious, full-lipped redhead Xenia Seeberg, the show's instant cult pinup queen. Just so its audience wouldn't get the wrong idea, Luvliner drops the crew into a dilapidated deep space cathouse.

Each DVD features a different 10-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette, short cast and creator interviews, and a chapter of Rated LEXX, a TV special created for the Sci Fi Channel to introduce the characters and recap the origins. --Sean Axmaker

The Lone Ranger, Vol. 3

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

still the best 5 out of 5 stars.
20 of 22 people found this review helpful.

I have two other DVDs of the Lone Ranger, and this one has two episodes that I had not seen. There is no better western than this series. The respect that is shown to women, the dignity of Jay Silverheels, and the moral high quality of dialog is not to be equalled. You cannot find simple stories with good moral principles with this level of acting, and the intelligent dialog. A must for all ages

Little House on the Prairie - As Long As We're Together

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Included on the Complete Season set! 2 out of 5 stars.
21 of 23 people found this review helpful.

In a very unclear and probably intentionally confusing marketing move, this and all of the other "2-hour TV special" Little House DVDs being released separated are actually included on the Complete Season box sets being released by the same company. I purchased three of these "specials" before realizing that they were all 2-part episodes to be found on the complete season sets. Usually, a 2-part show like this is released a little while before the season it's included on is... so only buy it if you MUST have it a couple of months ahead of time. While I don't have a problem with these 2-part shows being released separately, I don't understand the need for it and I really, really wish that it would be made clear somewhere on the packaging. Considering that these single disc releases have no special features, this is the worst example of DVD "double dipping" I've seen in a long time!!

Editorial Review:

Difficult economic times cause the Ingalls to move closer to Mary who is teaching at the blind school in the city. They all prepare to celebrate Mary’s birthday: Pa sells his fiddle to purchase her a present and Laura makes her a card written in braille. Everyone is moved to tears when Mary expresses her appreciation for the special people in her life – as they are everything she could ever really want

Lexx Series One "1.0: I Worship His Shadow"

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Series One - available at Amazon.ca 5 out of 5 stars.
30 of 31 people found this review helpful.

This is a great series. I don't have a lot to add that others haven't already mentioned. I would like to clarify some confusion and difficulty as to how to get the entire first season, the four mini-movies.

They do not all appear to be available from Amazon.com, well, volume 1, 2 and 4 are available, but volume 3, Eating Patterns, is not.

Save yourself the irritation. Just go to Amazon.ca, the canadian version, sign in using your normal name and password and look up Lexx Series One.

You can obtain all four movies with one click, including the difficult to find volume 3, just order: Lexx: Season 1: Ep.1.1-1.4

Hope this saves some people some time.

A Silly but Somewhat Entertaining Show 3 out of 5 stars.
5 of 6 people found this review helpful.

The Lexx universe is a somewhat depressing, Orwellian creation of mindless bureaucracy and an underlying sense of evil. His Divine Shadow, the supreme ruler, exists to rule through order. That makes for a fairly dreary and miserable existence. It is a universe of bread and circuses. There are a few alternatives, however.

There is a parallel shadow world about which little is known except that it is chaotic. There is also an active resistance within the realm of His Divine Shadow. The story begins to come together with the confluence of several events.

A minor bureaucrat faces "reprogramming" or possibly extinction for his minor personal failings. His failure to face his problems leads him to get into deeper trouble.

A frumpy woman makes the disorderly mistake of slugging her fiancé when he is disappointed with her appearance. She is sentenced to a new, very attractive body and life as a sex slave.

A leader of the resistance is caught and about to be sentence to death in an arena. He has a plan of escape that goes slightly off plan when one of his gizmos is unwittingly damaged by the bureaucrat mentioned above. He still manages to wreak some havoc and escape in the confusion. He takes with him these previous two characters.

The last member of a long dead race is revived to track down these fugitives. He is utilized by His Divine Shadow as an assassin. He is really dead but his body and mind are utilized (against his will) by means of advanced technology. He goes after the fleeing escapees but defects. He helps them to capture the Lexx, an immensely powerful ship. Together, they flee into the shadow zone.

The story doesn't hang together too well but it does manage to maintain interest. Partly, this is because of Zev, the very decorative sex slave character. Partly it is because of the hapless bureaucrat who manages to be amusing. Partly it is to see what silliness will occur next. It's certainly not great but I am willing to give it a chance and see what develops.

Lexx - Series 2, Vol. 2

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Lexx is neither the most creative nor the most clever sci-fi series to hit the air, but it has no illusions of greatness. This is a show with nothing but sex on its mind, with a shamelessly brazen parade of T&A, an unending stream of suggestive dialogue and hilarious sexual metaphors (many of them concocted by the lovesick robot head in his erotic odes to Xev), and a tongue-in-cheekiness that manages to spoof its own sex-mad silliness. At times it can even be inventive: Lafftrak, set on a dead planet where interactive TV shows still run on auto-pilot, puts the crew through its own season of hell in front of a brain-dead studio audience, and Love Grows exposes the crew to a virus that puts an unexpected twist on their sexual cravings. But it's a maddeningly inconsistent show that often stumbles over its own humor, as in the shrill hillbilly cannibal episode White Trash (guest starring a hysterical Maury Chaykin), and sometimes reaches for a seriousness it can't pull off, as in Stan's Trial, where Lexx's dorky pilot is accused of the deaths of billions by a sadistic prosecutor. True to form Stan is captured on a bordello ship with a giant condom.

The DVD features a 10-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette (mostly covering the special effects), short cast and creator interviews, and the second chapter of Rated LEXX, the TV special created for the Sci Fi Channel to introduce the characters and recap the origins. --Sean Axmaker

Little House on the Prairie - I'll Be Waving as You Drive Away (TV Special)

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Included on the Complete Season set! 2 out of 5 stars.
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In a very unclear and probably intentionally confusing marketing move, this and all of the other "2-hour TV special" Little House DVDs being released separated are actually included on the Complete Season box sets being released by the same company. I purchased three of these "specials" before realizing that they were all 2-part episodes to be found on the complete season sets. This one, for example, can be found on the Complete Third Season, which is now available. While I don't have a problem with these 2-part shows being released separately, I don't understand the need for it and I really, really wish that it would be made clear somewhere on the packaging. Considering that these single disc releases have no special features, this is the worst example of DVD "double dipping" I've seen in a long time!!

Editorial Review:

In this dramatic two-hour episode, Charles takes Mary to an eye specialist when she begins to experience difficulty seeing. He is devastated to learn that she will most certainly lose her sight and for a while cannot bring himself to tell her the truth about her condition. When Mary does go blind, Charles and Caroline decide it would be best for her to attend a special school in Iowa. Although reluctant to participate and learn in the beginning, Mary develops a special bond with her teacher, Adam Kendall that changes her outlook on life. Mary becomes an excellent student and is invited to stay on as a teacher. This DVD has been restored using state-of-the-art color correction, picture enhancement and noise reduction technologies.

Run Time: Approx. 90 min.
Components: 1 DVD

Lexx: Series 4, Vol. 3

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The best volume in the fourth series, so far. 4 out of 5 stars.
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4.5 stars. I can't give this volume 5 stars mostly because of yet another lack of reasonable plotting found mostly in the first episode "Fluff Daddy." Also, while some of that episode qualifies as over-the-top parody of the Porn Industry, other portions are once again just plain dirty. Here are the episodes:

4.09 Fluff Daddy--Stan thinks he has found his long-lost love, Lyekka, who apparently now works in the Porn Industry as an "actress." He convinces everyone at the location that he is the new "fluffer." If you don't know what a "fluffer" is, you will after watching this episode. The other half of this episode shows Xev' Cluster Lizard half going through a reproductive cycle when she comes across her potential mate: a performance artist who looks similar to Kai. Kai recites parts of "Henry V" while throwing tomatoes into a large fan while wearing a loin-cloth. Bizarre.

4.10 Magic Baby--This episode is entertaining for the most part, but some of the plotting goes unexplained by the end. Vlad is loose on The Lexx enslaving Moth Breeders while the three main characters return with two Druids with whom a deal was made for getting them back on board. There are some humorous moments here, but the ending is a head-scratcher.

4.11 A Midsummer's Nightmare--Yes! The show has characters singing again! This show is a disturbing parody of Shakespear's "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Oberon, Titania, and Puck are all, shall we say, "flighty." Oberon wants a new "wife" and tries to recruit Xev, at first, then Stan after his first proposal is revoked. This is a classic Lexx episode with singing, dancing, disturbing yet veiled dialogue, and some great character acting from the supporting cast. A gem!

4.12 Bad Carrot--I am chuckling as I remember this episode. Some of the humor in this one is so foul that it crosses the line from bad taste into the realm of outright hilarity. The entire main cast is now on The Lexx with a carrot-shaped alien probe violating each memeber it comes into contact with. I really can't explain further because I want this review to be posted. Sufficed to say, if you love crude humor, then this episode is sublime.

This is easily the best volume in the series, thus far.

Editorial Review:

This is the unconventional sci-fi where the women are hot and the men are mostly psychos, losers or undead (but the women dig them anyway). The desperate crew of the LEXX has landed on a planet that looked benign (and tasty) from a distance but up close reveals itself to be on the brink of extinction: it’s planet Earth, of course. In these four episodes, the SCI FI Channel favorite called "Star Trek’s evil twin" offers ribald riffs on everything from porn to Shakespeare. Episodes include: 4.09 Fluff Daddy, 4.10 Magic Baby, 4.11 A Midsummer’s Nightmare and 4.12 Bad Carrot. DVD bonus features include audio: 5.1 surround sound, 2.0 stereo; deleted scenes; LEXX-rated poster gallery; CGI gallery; behind-the-scenes photos; storyboards; production sketches; interactive trivia; and original uncut episodes including scenes not aired on TV. Starring: Brian Downey as Stanley Tweedle, Xenia Seeberg as Xev, Michael McManus as Kai and Jeffrey Hirschfield as 790.

Little House on the Prairie - There's No Place Like Home

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Included on the Complete Season set! 2 out of 5 stars.
67 of 73 people found this review helpful.

In a very unclear and probably intentionally confusing marketing move, this and all of the other "2-hour TV special" Little House DVDs being released separated are actually included on the Complete Season box sets being released by the same company. I purchased three of these "specials" before realizing that they were all 2-part episodes to be found on the complete season sets. Usually, a 2-part show like this is released a little while before the season it's included on is... so only buy it if you MUST have it a couple of months ahead of time. While I don't have a problem with these 2-part shows being released separately, I don't understand the need for it and I really, really wish that it would be made clear somewhere on the packaging. Considering that these single disc releases have no special features, this is the worst example of DVD "double dipping" I've seen in a long time!!

Editorial Review:

The Ingalls – including Albert, The Garveys and The Olesons tire of the bustling city and decide to return to Walnut Grove. They discover that the town has been severely neglected during their absence and set to work immediately to ensure Walnut Grove is restored to its former glory!

TV Classic Westerns, Vol. 1-3: The Lone Ranger/The Rifleman/Wagon Train...and Many More

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Westerns for the Older Set 5 out of 5 stars.
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My mother was pleased as punch with this assortment of older westerns! It was a gift to her for Christmas!