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The Office: Seasons 1 - 4 Collection
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Total reviews: 18
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Consider purchasing separately... 3 out of 5 stars.
6 of 7 people found this review helpful.
Season one is selling for under ten right now, and two and three are just a few dollars more. I love this series and plan to purchase every season, but I'm puzzled why this bundle costs so much more than the sum of its parts.
awesome buy! 5 out of 5 stars.
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if you are a office lover and you dont already own all the seasons,this is the ultimate package for you!
Editorial Review:
Clock in to everyone’s favorite Office as every episode from Seasons 1-4 comes together in one Ultimate Package! Reunite with boss Michael Scott (Golden Globe® winner Steve Carell) and the staff of the Scranton branch of Dunder-Mifflin (Rainn Wilson, John Krasinski, Jenna Fischer, B.J. Novak) as they deal with everything from mergers to makeovers, office romances to rivalries, and so much more. This Ultimate Package of the award-winning show developed for American TV by Primetime Emmy® Award Winner Greg Daniels (King of the Hill, The Simpsons) works overtime with hours of outrageous bonus features, including deleted scenes, episode commentaries and blooper reels. It’s laugh-out-loud hilarity with moments you’ll want to relive again and again.
The O.C. - The Complete Fourth Season
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Total reviews: 76
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Editorial Review:
High school is over. Time to move on. But events conspire to reunite Ryan, Seth and Summer in posh, seaside Newport. And there may even be a new Core Four. Because after Taylor Townsend says a quick if not passionate au revoir to her education in France, she just might pursue Ryan until he catches her. Time, too, for the series to move on with these 16 Final Episodes. Seth marries Summer? (Maybe.) Ryan goes through life like it's a steel-cage brawl? (Sometimes.) Kaitlin tries to hook up her mom Julie with a billionaire? (Well, the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.) But things happen, sometimes quite unexpectedly. Time to hit the beach for all the surprising events of a cool, compelling and revealing conclusion of The O.C.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary
Deleted Scenes
Featurette:The Magic That Is Chrismukkah: Cast, Crew and Religious Experts Weigh in on The O.C.s Distinctive Holiday Celebration Summer Roberts - Beauty Meets Brown: The Creation and Evolution of One of the Shows Most Lovable Characters
The O.C. - The Complete Third Season
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Total reviews: 88
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Very Good! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am a Japanese girl living in Japan. This drama is very popular in Japan, although, we still do not have the third and forth seasons in our stores. I was very happy to see this drama and also I am very glad that I could bought it in a very reasonable price. Needless to say, this drama was awesome! Thanks.
Editorial Review:
Senior year. Prom. Graduation. College visits. Old friends. New problems. And plenty of Korean popstars. Ryan's savior complex becomes a recipe for disaster. Seth and Summer's relationship hits the rocks thanks to Seth's compulsion to edit the truth. As Kirsten attempts to put her life back together, Sandy assumes leadership of the Newport Group and finds himself the heir-apparent to Caleb Nichol's legacy of scandal. Marissa spirals out of control after little sis Kaitlin - a Julie Cooper in the making - returns home to stir the pot. And speaking of Julie Cooper, she's cast out of her Palace - into the slums of the OC.DVD Features:
Music Video:Making of The Subways music video
Featurette:What's In a Name?
Featurette:From Script to Screen - The Party Favor
Gag Reel
Other:Pass The Remote - Scene surfing Commentary.
The O.C. - The Complete First Season
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Total reviews: 227
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
First Season Lived Up to the Hype 5 out of 5 stars.
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The FOX Television Network scored a major hit in 2003 when The O.C. premiered on August 5. The show at first seemed to be the next logical step in updating the Beverly Hills 90210 and Dawson's Creek teen soap genre for the 2000s. In many ways it improved on the formula in its first season and used up and coming music stars to propel the action on screen, making stars of little known recording artists in the process. However, the show's quick rise to popularity is often compared to its equally swift fall. But that's not to say that the first season was a mediocre one.
I didn't catch the show during the 2003-2004 TV season, but viewed the entire season on the subsequently released DVD set. The story centers around fish-out-of-water Ryan, a brooding, bad-boy teenager who moves in with a rich Newport Beach family in Southern California. The Cohens are a family with money - mother Kirsten works for her rich father, who is at odds with father Sandy, a local attorney. It's Sandy who represents Ryan in a case and ultimately invites him into his home.
The key partnership in the series is between Ryan and Seth, the Cohen's son. The show centers around dorky Seth's relationship to bad-boy Ryan, who is sort of like the big brother he never had. The boys juggle relationships with fellow classmates Marissa and Summer, while tackling the usual blend of teen drama along the way.
I always think I've seen it all when I see a teen drama like Beverly Hills 90210, which was remixed for the late nineties with Dawson's Creek. But The OC somehow manages to be just as good, if not better, during its first season. The first half of the season was particularly good, with things slowing down after a plot involving an unstable friend of Marissa's named Oliver, who develops an obsessive crush. Other plots involve Marissa's struggle with alcohol and the divorce of her mother and father.
Perhaps the slight lag during the last quarter of the season kicked off the amazingly swift downfall of the series. In the end, four seasons aired, each with a major percentage of viewer loss in the ratings. Adam Brody, Mischa Barton, Benjamin McKenzie, Kelly Rowan, Rachel Bilson and Peter Gallagher are the main cast of stars that propelled this FOX drama into an overnight sensation that burned out way before it should have.
(I originally posted this review at my personal website: jasonhink.com)
Editorial Review:
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 06/26/2007 Run time: 1188 minutes Rating: Nr
The O.C. - The Complete Second Season
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Total reviews: 131
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
OC Review 5 out of 5 stars.
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Was in very good condition and was recieved three days after ordering. Very happy with purchase
season 1 was hard to follow 3 out of 5 stars.
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i love, love the oc, never wwatched it on tv, but i bought season one and i was hooked, this is an amazing show, but i have to say season two was a bit boring, still entertaining but,the stories were a bit weak in comparison to season one, im hoping season 3 will be better, im still a fan though, those families are just too cute for words, i love the drama!! and how cute is seth cohen????? he cracks me up, lol!!!
Editorial Review:
Hook up with what's coming down as the Core Four romances of Ryan-and-Marissa and Seth-and-Summer may (or may not) go from very over to very on, Sandy and Kirsten face choices that could trainwreck their 20-year marriage, felon (and Ryan's brother) Trey gives Newport living a try, Julie's lurid past comes back to haunt her, and other new hunks and hotties become part of the coastal scene. Live. Laugh. Lie. Cheat. Grow. Share. Connive. Love. In California's beach paradise, they do everything under the sun.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary on The Chrismukkah That Almost Wasn't
Documentary:Beachy Couture: How O.C. Fashion Is Made
Gag Reel:From Seasons One and Two
TV Special:The O.C.: Obsessed Completely Retrospective TV Special
The Outer Limits Original Series Complete Box Set
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 7
Average rating: 3.5 of 5
Outer Limits 45th Anniversary Edition 4 out of 5 stars.
15 of 17 people found this review helpful.
A single release of this 60's SciFi series was a welcome addition to my DVD video collection.
A recent visit to the local best buy clocked the series at nearly $100 for the three individual volumes. BB had this new single set priced at a savings of 50%.
I was impressed with crisp clean EZ to use menus. The B/W video and Mono audio quality was excellent.
I did miss bonus extras, and the lack of closed captions for those of us with less than perfect hearing was also sorely missed.
Others have mention problems with the double sided discs. My toshiba DVD player had NO such troubles. Either disc quality has improved, or maybe these other people just need to upgrade their hardware.
While the "monster" FXs are very dated, the stories have held up well over the years. All in all, enjoyable to watch.
4 stars.
Editorial Review:
Disc 1: The Outer Limits Vol. 1 Disc 1 Disc 2: The Outer Limits Vol. 1 Disc 2 Disc 3: The Outer Limits Vol. 2 Disc 1 Disc 4: The Outer Limits Vol. 2 Disc 2 Disc 5: The Outer Limits Vol. 3 Disc 1 Disc 6: The Outer Limits Vol. 3 Disc 2 Disc 7: The Outer Limits Vol. 3 Disc 3
Oz - The Complete Sixth Season
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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 47
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
OZ: Great prison, or the greatest prison? 5 out of 5 stars.
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Another day, another prisoner up to no good with his wacky antics. I love everything about OZ, despite all its flaws. Actually, the flaws in OZ makes it even a greater show. I enjoy how sometimes, an inmate faction decides to create some elaborate plan to make someone fall in love with another inmate... just to to break his bones. Those Aryans always did have more creative flair than people gave them credit for. Then, sometimes they just want to go straight for the kill, but a cripple goes down instead. I enjoy how the COs are suspiciously absent at the worst of times, like when a lawyer must travel down a long corridor. Speaking of suspiciously absent, one CO was killed by a... wild wolverine, never to be heard from again. Ever. I love how Em City itself is built like a protective schoolhouse, with its breakable windows and cheap removable ceiling tiles. And a warning: if you ever do get sent to McManus's office, close the blinds with the view to the room across the hall, because whoever you least want watching you talking to McManus, will, in fact be watching you from the room across the hall.
If anything, you should watch OZ to view the wide variety of packages, and then when the actor shows up in another show... say, Law and Order: SVU, you can think to yourself, "Ha, I know what you're carrying under there, and it's not a gun," if only to partially cure yourself of the boredom from actually watching a Law and Order episode.
Nothing can be said that hasn't already been said already, but I just wanted to point out the other things that make OZ so special. Sarcasm aside, I love this show. And one more important note: REMEMBER, if you ever do get sent to prison, DIG DIG DIG, because even if you dig and get caught once, they will never search your new pod to see if you dug another tunnel.
Editorial Review:
On the surface, not much has changed inside the walls of Oswald State Penitentiary. Schillinger has revenge on his mind, Cyril is facing execution, Beecher is hoping for parole, and McManus is finding solace in a meditative maze. But there's toil and trouble brewing in the Oz cauldron, as the Oz players rehearse for their presentation of Macbeth and the climactic final act.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Three optional audio commentaries ("Dead Man Talking," "A Day in the Death" and "Exeunt Omnes") with series creator Tom Fontana, cast members Terry Kinney, Eamonn Walker, Dean Winters, Scott Winters and writer Bradford Winters
Deleted Scenes:30 minutes of deleted scenes
Other:Original cast audition tapes Exclusive extended cut of the series finale: Exeunt Omnes
The Odd Couple - The Final Season
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Total reviews: 11
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Cheapskates 3 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.
Less 2 stars due solely to the editing of content.
I am in complete agreement with other buyers about the edits and I use the word "complete" literally, unlike Paramount/CBS when they say "The COMPLETE Final Season". In a previous season, an entire gag about trying to get Felix to go to sleep (featuring the song "Dream") was cut. This season, one of my favorite episodes, "Strike up the band or else..." had gags cut involving the song "In Some Secluded Rendezvous"(sung twice in the show by Tony Randall and Pernell Roberts). How expensive can these songs be that you have to butcher these episodes. Charge a little extra with the guarantee that all the episodes are intact and you'll sell just a many if not more.
Hey Oscar!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this DVD because my husband is a hugh fan of the odd couple. We now own all 5 seasons. He watches them over and over again. The quality is great. So much better than watch the re-runs on TV.
Editorial Review:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008 Run time: 562 minutes
Oz - The Complete Fifth Season
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Total reviews: 25
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Oz, Fifth Season 5 out of 5 stars.
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Oz keeps getting better and better, and this season is utterly fantastic. Worth every cent.
Happy/Good Price 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am very happy about the price I paid for three boxes of OZ, but I must admit I will not order on Amazon US again.Why?
- 5 weeks for the delivery (I didn't choose the cheapest shippment) but fortunately I am very patient!
- 15 euros for the customs duty! Waoow what a pain in the a....
Thanks anyway.
Oz - This Is One Yellow Brick Road You Won't Want to Travel On 4 out of 5 stars.
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Emerald City is supposed to be some sort of experiment in rehabilitating inmates of Oz Penitentiary. It doesn't seem to work very well. The death rate in this prison is higher than it ever could be in real life. People get out only to come back in. Of course, if they left, they'd be off the show too and we wouldn't want that! This show is raucous, crazy ride with plenty of violence and nudity and people who barely make sense. It is the lower depths of human existence. Everybody seems to be having fun as actors though. Variety features singing and dancing. There are always fight scenes. Wild and crazy stuff to do. Many of the show's actors have gone on to other shows now, namely Lost and Dexter. The show had a wealth of talent.
Editorial Review:
It's a new year, and Emerald City's got a brand-new look. The walls are cleaner, the cafeteria is bigger, and everything is fresher...everything on the outside, that is. Inside the hearts and minds of the prisoners, Oz is just as dark and raw as ever. The renovations may be complete, but the mayhem is starting all over again.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio Commentary: Episode 8 "Impotence" with Tom Fontana and Dean Winters
Deleted Scenes
Other:Season 1 - 4 recaps
Oz - The Complete Fourth Season
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Total reviews: 44
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Oz goes off the rails, but in a good way 4 out of 5 stars.
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Coming off the nearly unmitigated brilliance of its third season, season four of Oz sees the show facing the tall order of maintaining the high standards of writing and acting that had characterized much of its history, and more often than not it's a success. This season is certainly not without its problems, some of them more damaging than others, but the show's visceral and emotional intensity is still very much in evidence, and even a flawed season of Oz is better than just about anything else. Season four picks up almost immediately after the conclusion of season three, with racial animosity in Oswald State Penitentiary at an all-time high, the psychotic Adebisi in possession of a gun and waiting for an opportunity to maximize its destructive potential, Beecher and Keller continuing their tumultuous gay love affair while Nazi leader Schillinger nurses a grudge against both, and Officer Whittlesy suddenly nowhere to be found (a circumstance certainly owing nothing whatsoever to Edie Falco's newfound success on The Sopranos). Naturally, it's not long before a dramatic catastrophe shakes up the already precarious situation in Emerald City and brings about a new level of disorder accompanied by a wild surfeit of plotlines and a level of bloodletting that's excessive even by Oz's lofty standards.
All the killing actually becomes a problem for the show as this season progresses--the constant murders begin to feel increasingly gratuitous after a while, to say nothing of the rather odd fact that nobody seems to have much interest in solving them. Obviously a prison show is going to rely heavily on the violence factor, but I think the creators of Oz could've distributed the killings far more judiciously and plausibly--The Sopranos, The Shield, and The Wire all take place in violent environments, but they've still managed to maintain an element of shock and impact when a character gets killed off. On Oz, especially in this season, the deaths (with a few exceptions) and the resulting revolving-door effect on the cast contributed to a somewhat numbing quality that pervades much of the season. Granted, there is the compensating plus of a train-wreck effect, as I often found myself literally unable to look away from all the carnage, but a little more realism would've gone a long way.
In an equally frustrating development, Oz seemed to develop a severe case of ADD in its fourth season, seeing its already somewhat fragmentary plot development crushed under the weight of a huge and fluctuating cast and an emphasis on momentum over coherence. With double the series's usual complement of episodes, we see a small army of new characters come through Oswald-among them an IRA fugitive on the run since Bloody Sunday, a pack of Chinese refugees, a legion of black street thugs, and a whole bunch of other guys I can barely remember-and few of these new arrivals are around long enough to make much of an impression. The result is a nonstop barrage of plotlines centered on sex, violence, backstabbing, and double-dealing among the inmates and staff, with character development often feeling perfunctory. Drug-addled, unpredictable new arrival Omar White, played by Michael Wright, is perhaps the best example of the problems in focus that largely characterize Oz's fourth season. He comes in at the halfway point with the obvious intention of becoming a major character, but only gets about five minutes an episode in which to get integrated into the show's ever-expanding universe, which isn't easy when he's shanking someone or relapsing on drugs on a weekly basis. Sure, Omar is blatantly overplayed by Wright, but it's not his fault--with Omar's limited and extremely busy screen time, nuance isn't exactly an option.
That this season works as well as it does is a testament to the core of characters who've been at its center from the beginning, along with a few newcomers who do manage to contribute something to show's harrowing, explosive approach. Even as Oz heads toward its home stretch, Tom Fontana still manages to find new dimensions to explore for his main characters and unfamiliar situations in which to put them. Sure, the show continues to drag out the Keller-Beecher affair and Ryan O'Reilly's (possibly) unrequited love for Doctor Nathan to diminishing returns, but in other cases we see familiar faces among both the inmates and staff undergoing profound changes in response to a variety of catalytic events. The staff undergoes some major shakeups as Warden Glynn starts to question his priorities in response to a new career opportunity and Emerald City chief Tim McManus slides deeper into depression and instability, but as always it's events among the inmates that take center stage, and to its credit the show is far from out of ideas when it comes to some of the major players behind bars. Kareem Said, especially, continues to emerge as one of the most complex and well-developed TV characters in history, played in memorably intense fashion by Eamonn Walker and imbued by the writing with a level of nuance that would be extremely difficult to bring to a Muslim character in the wake of 9/11. Said finds himself facing down a host of challenges to his ecumenical, non-violent worldview, none more prominent than a mid-season shocker that puts him on a sharp emotional spiral. For his part, it can be a little disorienting seeing a sadistic bigot and rapist like Schillinger studying scripture and eagerly awaiting the birth of his grandchild, but it does actually square with the pro-family, God-country-and-race message he's always propagated. Perhaps the best turn of the season other that Walker's, though, is submitted by Harold Perrineau as Augustus Hill, the wheelchair-bound lifer who serves as the show's narrator and often as its voice of reason. Hill has always been something of a moral center for the show, at least on the inmate side, and season four sees his character fleshed out a lot more fully than ever before as details about his past emerge and collide with some major developments in his present to produce an increasingly complete character in his own right.
Amidst the sea of new faces (many of whom quickly meet their ends), a few characters do also manage to survive long enough and get sufficient attention to become standouts as well. Anthony Chisholm is great as Burr Redding, a crafty, perpetually snarling drug lord hardened by a combination of Vietnam and the city streets he grew up on. Redding may be a vicious stone killer, but he's still got a logical moral code, and he's philosophical and introspective enough that I couldn't help but like him. His shrewd leadership ends up galvanizing Emerald City's black gangster elements for an ongoing war against the Latino faction led by the stylish and calculating Enrique Morales and the mafiosi under Chucky Pancamo, with predictably dramatic consequences for Em City's residents. Presaging the great work he would later do on HBO's incredibly brilliant The Wire, Lance Reddick does a powerful and intense turn as John Basil (aka Desmond Mobay), an undercover cop who goes into Emerald City with the best of intentions but quickly finds himself in over his head. Similarly, future Wire cast member Reg E. Cathey, easily one of the coolest actors hardly anybody has heard of, has a huge impact on the show in a relatively long arc as the charismatic Martin Querns, who replaces Tim as Em City's unit administrator and brings with him a hidden agenda that only serves to heighten Oz's already incendiary racial tensions. Shockingly enough, Luke Perry manages to make a similar impact on the show's dynamics as Jeremiah Cloutier, a larcenous ex-televangelist who comes in and makes some dramatic changes to Oz's spiritual order, at least to the extent that one exists.
In another welcome development, the show does make use of this season's larger allotment of episdoes to expand its focus beyond Emerald City, better living up to its title as it examines much more of its central institution. Continuing and expanding on a saga starting in season two, season four spends a great deal of time following the fortunes of creepy child-killer Shirley Bellinger and her new neighbors on death row. Despite the natural feeling of impending doom, there's still a somewhat lighthearted, darkly humorous feeling to the proceedings on death row, although that starts to subside as its residents meet their inevitable fates, albeit not always in a predictable fashion. The isolated cop wing, too, gets a couple of additions from the regular cast as the tragic story of the perpetually angry ex-correctional officer Clayton Hughes takes a series of turns for the worse.
Overall, while season four doesn't mark the best Oz has to offer, that certainly doesn't mean it's in any way without value. It takes a lot of risks, not all of which pan out, but it does at least demonstrate an admirable commitment to avoiding creative stasis as it approaches the beginning of its end, which is more than can be said for a lot of shows. And as usual, whatever else can be said about Oz, there's no denying its singular ferocity and almost total uniqueness. Despite some reservations, this season (and show) still gets a thumbs-up.
Editorial Review:
(HBO Dramatic Series) The Millennium ended with a bang at Oswald State Correctional Facility, Level Four--aka, Emerald City--as racial tensions reached an all-time high. Now, following a two-week lockdown and the appointment of a new Unit Manager, things are definitely changing, but not necessarily for the better. Prison officials are looking for ways to end the hostilities and return Emerald City to normal...but when was Em City ever normal? And if anyone thinks the worst is over for Oz, they're wrong--dead wrong.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio commentary by creator Tom Fontana, Rita Moreno, Dean Winters and Lee Tergeson
Deleted Scenes:30 minutes of deleted scenes