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Mad About You - The Complete First Season

Mad About You - The Complete First Season

List Price: $29.95
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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: This is not the show it eventually becomes.
Review: The first season is much more about Paul than it is about Paul and Jamie. The series started out as the story of a man who falls in love and is struggling to give up being a bachelor in favor of the romantic relationship. It was not until the third season that the show began to take shape into what it is best known as: one of the greatest romantic comedy series TV has ever seen.

The first season features Selby, Paul's bachelor friend who constantly tempts Paul's wild side. His character does nothing for the series and was dropped after this first season. I remember seeing first-season episodes only when the show was first syndicated, and it seems they've since been taken out of rotation.

Buy this if you love the show and want to see subsequent seasons on DVD. But be prepared: this is not the show as you came to love it during its last 5 seasons.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: good stuff
Review: A very good price for the amount of minutes!!! Don't forget to buy Season Two.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the Best comedies ever made!!
Review: I watch the series repetitions on TV Cable, and is the third time I'm watching Mad About You, but I'm still laughing and enjoying the hilariuos, funny and sometimes absurbs situations this "averenge" young couple lived in the middle of one of the most populated cities in the world and also in the middle of the conflicts made by the parents of both Paul and Jamie. The serie is recommendable to all peopleo, but most specially to thoso young couples that things the marriage is something normal and easy. Just watch and enjoy it!!

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Absurdly bad episode reordering mars excellent show
Review: Like a lot of people, I loved the first few years of Mad About You, when it was really well-written romantic comedy about a newlywed couple negotiating the difficulties of settling into a marriage. The video quality on these discs isn't perfect, but it's certainly good enough to enjoy these episodes all over again.

HOWEVER, some insane person made the decision to run the episodes on the discs in *production* order instead of *air-date* order, and the consequence is that parts of the series make no sense whatsoever -- for example, the discs swap episodes 2 and 4, so that the couple have in episodes 2 and 3 the couch they buy in ep 4 (originally episode 2). Something even worse is done with the last two episodes of the season, swapping them and thereby ruining both the story arc and the symmetry intended for the season finale.

I think we should all write angry letters to the studio protesting this idiotic decision and demanding better treatment for future releases. And, when available, a free replacement with the episodes in the right order.

In the meantime, if you loved Mad About You, you'll probably have to buy the set and reorder the episodes manually.

wg

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: EXCELENT, but could be better!!
Review: I just received and saw it!! If you are a fan consider this:
1. Every episode is like you saw it on TV, so if you loved it whn it was on the air... you will love it now!
2. Don't expect more than the episodes, because you won't find any commentary, behind the scenes, etc...just the episodes!!
3. You'll find subtitles in English... And Audio in English, French and Spanish... If you are latin and saw it on Cable, you can see it in Spanish but you are MISSING A LOT of the original dialogue and the jokes!! It would be preferred to introduce the subtitles in Spanish better than the audio.
4. Season 2 is almost the same!
Buy it... I'm expecting to see the release of the next two seasons!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love this DVD and It doesn't have RCE!
Review: I have received the discs at home (Peru) and we loved them. They don't have the RCE (Regional Coding Enhancement) so I can see them in a region-free dvd player.
I think the first seasons are much better than the last ones. However I think it gets better in the 2nd season. The last 3 seasons barely have episodes about couple relationship but they are still good seasons to buy in DVDs. I hope the complete 7 seasons will be released.

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Good!
Review: Mad About You was one of my favorite sitcoms in the 90s and I think the first season was pretty good and I think Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt are terrific as Paul and Jamie and I recommend this show.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Whoo-hoo
Review: There's nothing like staying at home and watching Mad About You, no matter what season it is. I can't wait for the third season to come out.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: One of the Best comedies ever made!!
Review: I watch the series repetitions on TV Cable, and is the third time I'm watching Mad About You, but I'm still laughing and enjoying the hilariuos, funny and sometimes absurbs situations this "averenge" young couple lived in the middle of one of the most populated cities in the world and also in the middle of the conflicts made by the parents of both Paul and Jamie. The serie is recommendable to all peopleo, but most specially to thoso young couples that things the marriage is something normal and easy. Just watch and enjoy it!!

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Out of sequence episodes are so frustrating.
Review: What can I say?

Mad About You is a fantastic show and the actors are just brilliant.

You could almost believe that Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt are really man and wife.

I don't even mind the less than perfect picture quality, which shows itself particularly in the first few episodes, where the graininess is quite pronounced.

However, the most frustrating thing is the way some episodes are out of sequence, with the biggest problem being episodes 21 and 22 being back to front.

This results in Fran (Leila Kenzle) admiting to an indiscretion in episode 21, that doesn't actually take place until episode 22.

I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that season 2 isn't also out of sequence.


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