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Oz - The Complete Third Season
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Total reviews: 32
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Incredible. 5 out of 5 stars.
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The first season of Oz introduced our (huge) cast of main characters. The second season was dedicated mostly to intergroup struggles: the battles of drug dealers, crime lords and gang bangers. With the spectacular third season, Oz presented a mix of the best of seasons one and two by giving us character development within a story about a larger, rising struggle.
On the personal end, each of our main characters has problems. Beecher, betrayed badly by his boyfriend Keller at the end of season two, is out for revenge against Keller and his friends. Keller, remorseful and desirous of Beecher, is willing to do anything to get Beecher back--including seduce a nun and kill. Sister Peter Marie comes to realize that she is a woman before being a nun, while Schillinger must choose between his family and his beliefs. Augustus Hill finds out a shocking secret, Miguel Alvarez struggles with depression, the warden faces his past...and that's just some of the main characters.
While Season Two had a bit of a problem juggling all of the events and people introduced, everything has been hammered out in Season Three. It's particularly impressive that each of these personal storylines wove together and finally became part of a much larger story: one of budding racial tension in the prison. Who stays impartial, who wants equal rights, and who turns to racism? The answers might surprise you.
The only warning I can give about Season Three (and Oz in general) is that crack is less addicting than this show. I began Season One thinking I'd just watch an episode or two...and was up until 6 in the morning, desperate to know what was next. Be careful...and enjoy.
Editorial Review:
Oz: the name on the street for the Oswald Maximum Security Penitentiary - except they've just changed the name. It's now the "Oswald State Correctional Facility: Level Four." Maybe it's truth in advertising. Maybe by getting rid of the word "penitentiary," the state is finally admitting that nobody's penitent. Nobody's sorry. Nobody.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Audio commentary by creator Tom Fontana and director Chazz Palminteri on "Unnatural Disasters"
Deleted Scenes:22 minutes of deleted scenes
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Oz - The Complete Second Season
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Total reviews: 43
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
DISAPPOINTED 2 out of 5 stars.
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I just purchsed the first three seasons. Unfortunately for me, the close caption for hearing impared in only in Spanish... No English... In fact even when I select NONE for the close caption, the wording is still coming across the bottom of the screen in Spanish.. How can anyboby put out a dvd without English close captioned.. I mean we are in America right????
GREAT SERIES!!!!!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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LOVE THIS SERIES, ESPECIALLY THE BRAVE PRODUCERS WHO PROVIDE THE MALE FRONTAL NUDITY! IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR THOSE OF US WHO ARE SICK OF ALL THE FEMALE FRONTAL NUDITY. AS FOR THE ACTORS, YOU CAN'T BEAT THE CAST, SO MANY ALL STAR ACTORS, SUCH A PLEASURE TO SEE THE DIFFERENT SIDES THAT THESE ACTORS CAN PORTRAY.
OZ-------Enough to Scare You Straight 5 out of 5 stars.
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This show is not for the faint-of-heart. It depicts the conditions in a maximum security prison without any politeness. The writing is smart, and moves quickly, the acting is superb. The plots are interesting, and make you think about our criminal justice system, and what could be done to improve it.
As a middle-aged female, I find it hard to fathom that there truly are men (and women), who are so evil, and cruel to fellow human beings. I sure am glad they are behind bars!
Editorial Review:
Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 09/05/2006 Rating: Nr
The O.C. - The Complete Series Collection
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Total reviews: 24
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
The Total Beach Experience Glamour. Glitz. Schemes. Dreams. The O.C. is the place to be. The complete series is yours in this extras-loaded DVD set. Outsider Ryan, quick-witted Seth, girls-next-door Summer and Marissa and more -- all the characters you love (or sometimes love to hate) are here in episodes alive with laughs and drama, indie bands and Chrismukkah, and featuring real insights into teens and parents, what's in and what matters, growing up and moving on. There's nothing like a day at the beach. Catch every wave! Includes all 92 episodes on 28 discs and tons of extras: Season 1 Remastered and presented in Widescreen for the First Time! Over 6 hours of Special Features: - Commentaries on Select Episodes and Specific Memorable Scenes by Series Creator JOSH SCHWARTZ, the Show's Stars and Others. - Cool, Sexy, Revealing UNAIRED SCENES and an EXTENDED EPISODE. - Retrospective DOCUMENTARY The O.C.: Obsess Completely. - 7 AWESOME FEATURETTES: Casting the O.C., Inside the Real O.C., The Music of the O.C., Beachy Couture, Making of the Subways Video, The Magic That Is Chrismukkah and Summer Roberts - Beauty Meets Brown - Gag reels for all seasons, Including Season Four not previous included! - Atomic County Excerpts, all-new Creator Introduction and more!
Oz - The Complete First Season
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Total reviews: 122
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Such a wonderful show! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I own and have watched every episode of OZ ranging from season 1-6. The story is compelling and very deep and of course for adult audiences only. I love how the characters unfold and progressively become more complex. This series portrays prison life as very brutal and unforgiving, but there is always a subtle reminder that these convicts are still humans with feelings and a heart. Season one starts off with a bang, and some of the annoyances are cleared up by season two. Save yourself the trouble and buy all the seasons when they are on sale through amazon. You won't regret it.
Editorial Review:
From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man, Diner) and Tom Fontana, OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies. OZ is a wake-up call.DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Two audio commentaries by series creator Tom Fontana and star Lee Tergesen
Biographies
Deleted Scenes:WIth commentary by Tom Fontana
Episodic Previews
Episodic Recaps
Featurette
Music Video
Scene Access
The Office - The Complete First Series (BBC Edition)
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Total reviews: 175
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Never squirmed so much in my life; also, multiple orgasmic laughs... 5 out of 5 stars.
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There's no use comparing the American and British versions--it's best to look at them as separate entities. While Carrell plays the regional manager as bafoonish and innocent, Gervais is bafoonish and despicable in his innocence. This version holds the awkward pauses longer, and has many moments where I truly wanted to pause just for relief from the discomfort it's realism brings forth; and yet, I laughed. Episode Four is probably the best in this series (season). The main characters are given much more attention and the secondary characters much less than in the American version, but the actors make you realize why--they are incredibly brillant. A reviewer commented that this is very raunchy; it definitely has its moments. Scenes that would never have flown in the American version stand proudly in the original, scenes that no one would have believed in America because of our more stringent sexual harassment clauses. But, then, it's British humor, and I get and can appreciate it. Anyway, give it a shot, whether you like the American version (which I do) or not. It's a bit more depressing, but that's only because it's a bit more real.
Editorial Review:
Welcome to Wernham Hogg, a suburban paper company where "life is stationery." Critics and fans alike have lauded this hilarious, biting look at everyday office life, told in the mockumentary style of cult comedy classics such as This is Spinal Tap and The Larry Sanders Show. The show revolves around David Brent, (an instant classic character widely compared to Basil Fawlty of Fawlty Towers) the oblivious general manager who instigates petty office rivalries. The wince-worthy Brent still considers himself "a friend first and a boss second...probably an entertainer third."
The Odd Couple - The Complete Series, Seasons 1-5
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Total reviews: 4
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
The WKRP treatment of this series ruins your enjoyment 2 out of 5 stars.
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First some remarks about the series itself. This show proves that opposites may not attract, but, with some work, they can at least peacefully coexist. Felix is not just compulsively neat, he literally worships at the altar of order. Oscar's philosophy is not to sweat the small stuff and thinks everything is small stuff. One of the reasons this show is still funny today is that most people have personalities that lie between these two extremes and can therefore sympathize and laugh at the actions of both men. The first season focuses on the relationship between Oscar and Felix, pretty much stays in the same neighborhood as the 1968 movie from which it sprang as to storylines, and even has the same actresses from the film playing the Pidgeon Sisters. The first season is good, and helps establish the complete personalities of Oscar and Felix in a way a two hour film just doesn't have time to do, but I think it lacks something in the way of the energy and pace that the subsequent seasons had. "The Odd Couple" had the misfortune of premiering right before shows like "All In the Family" would give birth to modern television as we know it today, along with the frank discussion of controversial subject matter in a comic context.
Quite frankly, I think the show would probably have been canceled after its second season if it had not changed to the live set it used from seasons two forward and started breeching more modern topics like it did to help keep pace with the great changes that were taking place in television during the early 70's. I have to give credit to producer Garry Marshall - if he saw something that wasn't quite working in one of his shows, he wasn't afraid to make drastic changes to try and get things back on track. I would say that the "Odd Couple" is one of the few shows that managed to never jump the shark during its five year run. Considering the fact that it aired during a period of great change in American culture - 1970-1975 - that is saying something.
Now for the presentation of the series. The first season, which is probably its weakest, is the only one worth purchasing. If there are edits, I haven't noticed them. That is because the modern music starts getting inserted into the show in the second season, part of the effort that I previously mentioned to keep the show current. Unfortunately, it has also been its undoing in syndication and on home video. The RIAA, demanding outrageous royalties for anyone as much as humming a copyrighted song, ruined the video release of WKRP in Cincinatti, and is responsible for Ally McBeal on DVD being an impossibility in the U.S. If Paramount were to pay what the RIAA wanted, it would have to charge us two hundred per season. However, Paramount decided to deface this show anyway and release cut up sets from season two onward. That part of the blame definitely lies at their feet.
In short, avoid this set, and buy season one if you haven't. Subsequent seasons are so cut up it will ruin your enjoyment if you remember this series in its original run.
Editorial Review:
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 11/18/2008
The Odd Couple - The First Season
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Total reviews: 48
Average rating: 5.0 of 5
My Favorite Show Ever! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love "The Odd Couple", unfortunately, it's been a long time since I've seen it on TV reruns; hence my purchase of the DVDs. I started with season two, and now I am getting into season one. The two are different in that season one is done in a different apartment and with a laugh track, while season two is with a live audiance. Season one moves a little slower but is still hilarius. The chemistry between Jack Klugman and Tony Randall is perfection. I love these guys. The underlying sadness of the show is quite an interesting ingredient to the humor involved. Although it's only touched upon occasionally in the show, these are two men who are dealing with a terrible thing-namely divorce; and coming to terms with their own faults that led them there. The overt hostility and the deep down affection Felix and Oscar (as well as Tony and Jack) have for each other makes this show really special.
This DVD also comes with wonderful extras from future seasons (Jack Klugman's favorite episodes), and clips from vintage television featuring Odd Couple"-related material. That was a nice surprise!
Editorial Review:
Two divorced New Yorkers---a slob and a fussbudget---try to live together "without driving each other crazy" in this classic sitcom based on Neil Simon's hit play and movie. Both Jack Klugman and Tony Randall won Emmys in the leads, the latter in the final year of a five-season run. "Now if I only had a job," Randall said at the Emmy gala. The show inspired two remakes, one an animated series portraying the main characters as a cat and a dog, and a 1982-83 version with a mostly black cast.
The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season
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Total reviews: 33
Average rating: 2.5 of 5
Thankful for the shows, Upset about the Edits 4 out of 5 stars.
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I watched this show endlessly on WPIX in New York, growing up in the 1970's and 1980's. I have all 4 seasons so far, and I will pick up season 5. I was showing an episode, "Odd Holiday", to my kids, who, by the way, love the show. It's a flashback episode, and before going into the flashback, Murray asks Oscar if the picture was going to go all wavy. The flashback, I can remember from WPIX, had Felix singing "gotta get going, gotta get going...", and hitting his knee with a magazine. On the DVD, there was no "wavy" going into the flashback, just a jump cut to the past. It jumps straight over Felix and the magazine, and goes straight to Gloria picking up the magazine and tapping her knee - Felix says that's annoying. Without Felix's tapping, there is no joke - the irony that Felix is annoyed at what he was doing before her. I don't know if anybody caught that, but that little snippet missing (for no apparent reason), ruined the joke.
On the plus side, every episode in this set (plus the previous 3) had about 3-4 minutes of footage that I have never seen before, so that is a good thing. I just don't know why little snippets like the one above was cut. I don't think it was a music issue.
The show gets 5 stars, but it loses a star for the nonsense editing. Overall, it's still better than syndication.
Editorial Review:
Two divorced New Yorkers---a slob and a fussbudget---try to live together `without driving each other crazy' in this classic sitcom based on Neil Simon's hit play and movie. Both Jack Klugman and Tony Randall won Emmys in the leads, the latter in the final year of a five-season run. `Now if I only had a job,' Randall said at the Emmy gala. The show inspired two remakes, one an animated series portraying the main characters as a cat and a dog, and a 1982-83 version with a mostly black cast.
October Road - The Complete First Season
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Total reviews: 27
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
If you liked the movie Beautiful Girls you'll love October Road! 5 out of 5 stars.
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October Road is brought to us by the creaters of the movie Beautiful Girls (starring Timothy Hutton, Uma Thurman, Matt Dillon, Rosie O'Donnell etc.)...an all-time favorite movie of mine, it's no wonder I fell in love with October Road from the start!
October Road reminds me of My So Called Life when it first came out, underrated and not given a chance by many. But if you give it a chance, you'll see that this show is at the top of the best programming out there. The acting is first class, even though you won't know most of the cast. This isn't a bad thing though because never knowing them as another character (minus Hannah), makes them that much more believable as this character. The storylines are interesting, entertaining, thought-provoking and fun. The music in each episode is the crown upon it's head! There's nothing I don't like about this show. It's a subtle masterpiece.
If you haven't caught this show yet you really need to! I can't say enough good things about it.
Editorial Review:
Return home to October Road with up-and-coming novelist Nick Garret, who’s new best-seller has made him infamous among the high-school friends characterized in his book. It’s a winding road back to childhood friendships and forgotten love in this new drama starring Bryan Greenberg (Prime) and Laura Prepon (TV’s That’s 70’s Show), who US Weekly calls a "glowing, grounding force."* Catch up with all the first season episodes before the new season begins this fall, and don’t miss exclusive behind-the-scenes features with the cast only available on DVD, October 30, 2007
One Day at a Time - The Complete First Season
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Total reviews: 36
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
There's a Reason It Ain't In Syndication 1 out of 5 stars.
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Why? Because it blows, that's why! This series was nothing but 70s feminist propaganda with ugly people in it and it's aged over the last 30 years worse than fish. Pat Harrington was the only good thing about it.
"So Hold On Tight, We'll Muddle Through, One Day at a Time!" 4 out of 5 stars.
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Back, when I was a kid, growing up in the '70s, my family and I pretty much loved most of the Norman Lear produced comedies, that were on the b**b tube at the time. "All in the Family" was king in our household, but a close second for us, would have to be the groundbreaking sitcom, "One Day at a Time".
For those who don't know, "One Day at a Time" featured Ms.Ann Ramano (Bonnie Franklin) a middle aged mom, who is newly divorced after a long time marriage. This is truely the first time in her life, that Ann hasn't been dependent on a man. She is now facing an uncertain new future, which includes finding a job and raising her two battling, teenage daughters, Julie (Mackenzie Phillips) and Barbara (Valerie Bertinelli) the best way she knows how. Along for the ride is both the meddling, wise-cracking, apartment building handyman, Dwayne F. Schnieder (Pat Harrington Jr.) and the teddy bear-like, divorce lawyer/love interest, David Kane (Richard Masur).
This was the first successful show on TV to really broach the topic of divorce and how it affected both women and kids alike. The scripts were sharp, sometimes moving and quite funny. The show made stars out of the four main cast members (I had a huuuuge, pre-teen crush on Valerie Bertinelli!), who really invested their characters with both personality and chemistry.
This DVD features all 15 episodes of the first season. The remastering is fine, but nothing special. The one extra included is a wonderful 40 minute, 2005 'reunion special', which features the principal cast members. In a relaxed setting, the actors talk and reminisce about their characters, the series' various themes & plotlines and the actual production of the show. Topics of interest run the gamut from the wild '70s clothing/hairdo fashions to a discussion of Mackenzie Phillips' drug problems, that lead to her eventually leaving the show. The actors good naturely banter back and forth, leaving the impression, that after more than 30 years, they are in a way still a family.
A great show! Highly recommended! Hopefully in the future more seasons will be released to DVD!
Editorial Review:
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 04/24/2007 Run time: 360 minutes