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Sex and the City - The Complete First Season

Sex and the City - The Complete First Season

List Price: $39.98
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Unashamed, funny look at sex in NYC
Review: I don't get HBO at home, but my parents do and I happened to catch an episode of Sex and the City during a visit home. I enjoyed it so much, I was very pleased when it came out on video at such a reasonable price.

Sarah Jessica Parker and her costars are fantastic - they are obviously having a great time, and their energy and humor really make this series a joy to watch. It's pretty frank, but not graphic at all. Highly recommended!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Hilarious, provcative and seductively funny
Review: Sex and the City, on DVD, is wonderful. The enhanced features show a lot of time and effort put into the compilation of the series' first season. My only quibble is that some of the images/shots seem grainy, but for the most part is reasonably great quality. The sound is excellent. I also wish that each episode could have chapters to them, but c'est la vie on that one. Overall, a great buy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Empathize on Sunday Nights
Review: I have loved watching "Sex and The City" since its premiere episodes. My girl friends and I never miss an episode! Monday mornings are always spent reviewing the episode from the night before, and it doesn't matter if my friends and I have husbands, lovers, boyfriends, or nobody, we have all been able to relate this show in our own experiences and lives. It's a wonderfully funny, intelligent, and innventive series. Men might not think things like this really happen, or women talk about them like this, but believe me they do. Enjoy.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: DVD Video Transfer Awful
Review: I have only watched the first episode so far. While I do enjoy the show, I must point out that the DVD version was done very poorly. I realize it was only a "TV" show, but on my HDTV the color is lousy and heavily pixelated. Perhaps the worst DVD video quality I've seen so far. You may just want to buy the VHS for this one. Don't waste time or money on this DVD.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Excellent, realistic and eyeopening show for Men and Women.
Review: For guys who cut this show down, you ARE one of the losers typically portrayed on this show and you know who you are. This show is so Not subtle but it amazingly feels like it while watching. That is of course a testament to it's power and mostly to the four actresses, especially Kim Cattrall and Cynthia Nixon.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: ick
Review: I bought this DVD having seen one fairly entertaining episode of the show. Having seen a few more, all I can say is "whoops". Two of Carrie's three friends are not very attractive, all four are fairly self-impressed and boring after a couple episodes, and the supporting characters may as well be made of cardboard. Throwing in a little Kim Cattrall T&A occasionally does make this show any more titillating than it is annoying. RENT - DON'T BUY!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Get it on DVD!
Review: the DVD menu screens are well organized, including descriptions and even previews of each episode. Makes it very handy when you want to see that "one" episode again. The DVD format is PERFECT for a compliation like this.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: sweet,raw & refreshing!
Review: This series is hilarious,very sexy,but yet in good taste.Every character has it's place. This is a MUST have for every woman who finds herself without a date on friday nights!

from ALTEREGO in Tulsa OK

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: I love having a whole season in one DVD package!
Review: Why don't more TV shows do this? (As opposed to the irritaing Twilight Zone approach of 3 or 4 shows at a time.) And Sex and the City has the coolest DVD packaging I've ever seen.

But enough about packaging!

I just got HBO a few months ago, so I'm discovering Sex and the City by way of the second season, which HBO has been dispensing in double doses recently in preparation for its airing of the third season. I love the second season, so it was interesting to go back to the first season and see how the characters and themes were introduced. I must say I think the show got better in the second season. The first season was heavy-handed in showing the 4 women as stereotypes and really overdoing the shopping and the predictable parade of sex issues. I liked figuring out, on a second season basis, what each of the 4 women was really about, and they seemed to have a decent amount of dimension. For example, I really loved the character Miranda in the second season, but you go back to the first season, and the attempts to define her as "the cynical one" seem unnecessary. So, I think the show got smarter and better.

Nevertheless, the first season is still wonderful--though whether it's say, derivative of Melrose Place, I couldn't tell you, since I haven't watched any of those shows. The only show I've seen that I can compare it to is Seinfeld, because it's four interesting friends in NY. It's not as funny as Seinfeld, naturally, and it's entirely focused on the subject of sex. You might get a bit tired of these people having nothing else in their lives than their sex lives! But that's the topic of the show. It's not entirely realistic--in fact, it's a real fantasy for women. Yes, a sex fantasy for women has to include, not just sex, but lots of shopping and trendy restaurants, bars, apartments, artists, dresses, shoes, kissing outdoors at night silhouetted against the urban skyline. It's awfully entertaining in that regard, and somehow it constantly stays on my good side, even though ordinarily I'd be disgusted by women who were so shallow. It's almost bizarre, really. The credit should be shared by the wonderful directors and writers and actors. It's really amazing how the actresses keep these characters from cloying. And the actors are real sports to allow their sex to be displayed in such an unflattering light.

So you don't like Chris Noth? That's what's so funny! The Village Voice called him a combination of Al Gore and Victor Mature: I can't stop seeing him that way. Personally, I really identify with Sarah Jessica Parker's character as she tries to keep her dignity while in love and trying to maintain a relationship with this man who is intent upon keeping his distance. I'm sure he's really suffering inside, but on the outside, the man is maddening. If you've been there, don't miss this series.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Funny , entertaining, great fun to watch good acting
Review: I just discovered the show awhile back and now I am hooked.


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