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DVD SUPPLEMENT
BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO
DIRT season one: The best Hollywood insider satire since “Action”, Courtney Cox reinvents herself nicely as a supreme tabloid editrix bitch that will stoop to anything to get a scoop and shovel the titular dirt. Rounding up the complete first season, there’s a handful or core characters that keep things zipping along. There are only so many set ups that a show like this can have but the writing and the characterization make the most of them. A great cotton candy show that fills the telesleeze sweet tooth nicely.
PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
FRASIER season ten: Just a touch out of order since season 11 was originally released to capitalize on the show going off the air, this is another show that’s wrapping up it’s DVD run this Christmas. In what we can safely call the penultimate season of the transplanted British drawing room comedy that grew from it’s own seed, the core line up was still at it and going strong. Amazingly, after all these years, you get draw laughs form Frasier managing not to get laid at the last minute and Niles being a romantic putz even when he finally does get the girl. Bouncing back from the Niles/Daphne energy that drew the series in a different direction for two seasons, Felicity Huffman provides sustained romantic tension, Niles has heart surgery, Martin gets fed up and gruff with his twitty kids (oh, wait, that’s not unique) and on and on. With the whole season watchable in nine hours, this is another reason why these TV dvd complete seasons are getting cozy on bookshelves. No editing, no commercials and the hard hitting urbane laughs that brought you into the tent in the first place sends you off into that good night.
MOD SQUAD season one volume one: Holy Jeebus, what a product of the times, bad kids turning narc! With the future Mrs. Quincy Jones and the precursor to Sam Jackson giving suburban kids blowing pot in the rec room something to while away family hour with, these 13 episodes that kicked it off are a hoot. Dated as all hell, they stand up as more than nostalgia probably because tv pros like Aaron Spelling and Danny Thomas were behind it. Essentially after school specials with an edge, this series came along when the generation gap and the divisiveness of the social fabric were in full flower. Light years better than the rip off movie that came a generation later to try and capture the nostalgia, what white kid didn’t get off on yelling “Leeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Connnnn”? If you were there, you know what we mean. And it’s always more fun without commercials.
Volume 31/Number 35
December 5, 2007
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