Recent TV DVD Reviews

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Wednesday, November 25 2009

The L Word: The Final Season

By Jake Meaney

Showtime's long running lesbian drama/comedy/soap opera transforms itself for its last season into a murder mystery... And then abruptly terminates in one of TV history's most unsatisfying series finales.

Tuesday, November 24 2009

Andy Barker, P.I.: The Complete Series

By J.M. Suarez

While Andy Barker, P.I. never really got the chance to fully realize its potential, these six episodes are a good showcase for what could’ve been a very funny series.

Thursday, November 19 2009

The IT Crowd: The Complete Third Season

By Christel Loar

The IT Crowd: The Complete Third Season brings back Moss, Roy, Jen and Mr. Reynholm for more of the sharpest computer-centric comedy around.

Tuesday, November 17 2009

thitysomething: The Complete First Season

By Michael Antman

The last American television series before Mad Men to treat the world of advertising seriously was this more satisfying, actual period piece.

Numb3rs: Season Five

By Andrew Winistorfer

This is undone by the same thing that plagues all CBS crime show lineups: many episodes are centered around tension-filled scenarios involving the characters, all of whom will always escape just fine.

Wednesday, November 11 2009

Man Stroke Woman: The Complete Series

By Christel Loar

This is an hilariously off-kilter sketch comedy filled with often unexpected payoffs and utterly hysterical visual gags -- in addition to its wickedly funny cast.

Zorro: The Complete First and Second Seasons

By Bill Gibron

Thanks to Disney's desire to preserve its heritage for future generations to enjoy, these limited edition box sets are like stepping back in time and witnessing the series premiere as it originally aired.

Tuesday, November 10 2009

Fawlty Towers: The Complete Collection Remastered

By Alistair Dickinson

A TV gem from decades ago finds itself compiled in a DVD set that will delight its viewers, whether they've seen "The Germans" a thousand times before, or have never been anywhere near a Flying Circus.

Monday, November 9 2009

Merry Sitcom: Christmas Classics From TV’s Golden Age

By Terrence Butcher

The overarching theme among these stories is an often unacknowledged tension between affluent postwar consumer culture and a more austere mode of living.

Friday, November 6 2009

Adult Swim in a Box

By W. Scott Poole

This is a compilation for that large demographic that yearns for narratives about a large, talking milk shake ordering a wife from Chechnya, or the micronauts going on a breast-climbing expedition. You know who you are.

Wednesday, November 4 2009

Doctor Who: The Next Doctor

By Evan Sawdey

Another one of Davies' overwrought space melodramas winds up imploding on itself, but the DVD special feature is a treat worth savoring.

Girlfriends: The Seventh Season

By Valerie C. Gilbert

Like Sex and the City, to which it is often compared, Girlfriends is more product and champion of a pro-sex "postfeminist" culture than it is a relic of the past.

Tuesday, November 3 2009

Doctor Who: The Deadly Assassin

By Evan Sawdey

Heavily based on The Manchurian Candidate, the political intrigue here makes this one of the best Doctor Who adventures ever filmed -- no, really.

Monday, November 2 2009

Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen

By Evan Sawdey

It's not that this particular story was bad -- we've just been lead to expect much, much better from this sci-fi warhorse.

Sunday, November 1 2009

Doctor Who: Image of the Fendahl

By Evan Sawdey

Psychic grandmas, the theory of evolution, and a gun-weilding Tom Baker makes for one of the most tension-filled Doctor Who outings of the "classic" era.

Wednesday, October 28 2009

Callan: Set 1

By Thomas Britt

In Callan, the audience occupies a place of privilege, having access to this secret intelligence service, the high-risk information it manages, and the thrilling jobs it must carry out for the government.

Monday, October 26 2009

Lie to Me

By Rachel Kipp

That this is not another procedural show is in large part due to actor Tim Roth, who injects life and mystery into a part that on paper reads like a watered down version of Dr. Gregory House.

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