Once and Again - The Complete First Season

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Summary: Please release Seasons 2 and 3 on DVD!
Review: This was a high quality show, and I'm sorry it was cancelled. On this DVD, we get introduced to all the characters on the show, and laugh and cry with them. This first season deals with dating after divorce, the problems children encounter after divorce (not to mention Lily's financial struggles), the death of Lily's father, and the many issues teenagers have growing up. We also get to watch the exciting new relationship between Rick and Lily, as well as the pitfalls that inevitably come. There are both happy times and sad, and the viewer really gets drawn into these characters' lives. This show had superb acting, and owning this DVD set was a must for me. Please release Seasons 2 and 3 on DVD!

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Summary: A MUST SEE
Review: This show was helpful to my 2 step sons. It tackled many emotions that go through divorced families from all sides. Never really understood why it was taken off the air. (especially for the reality TV shows). We watch these DVD's over and over. They never seem to get old! A must have for any extended families.

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Summary: A rare gem!
Review: This DVD set is a rare gem, which continues to amaze me. It's great entertainment with meaning. They nail every show! I have enjoyed each story and often laugh with self-recognition. I love the way the camera cuts to what the character is really thinking or their earlier times or hopes and dreams. Once and again contains accurate, meaningful stories of life, relationships, family, challenges and changing circumstances. After each viewing we say the same thing, WOW! We look forward to buying the second and third seasons as soon as they're available.

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Summary: You must experience this heartfelt series
Review: This is what a television show should be...Amazing!!!! Buena Vista release seasons 2 and 3 better yet ABC get your act together and entertain us Once and Again.

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Summary: Cannot agree more...
Review: I can only echo what others have said -- this is indeed one of the most mature, thoughtful, and intelligent TV shows I've seen. Definitely worth watching again and again.

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Summary: Amazing. . .
Review: I cannot stop watching this DVD. This show was, by far, the most realistic depiction of American life. The entire cast did an amazing job bringing this series to life. I actually feel normal while watching this series. . .I truly believe most everyone in life today could see themselves in one of the characters on Once and Again. Please, please release seasons 2 and 3 of this series.

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Summary: Bring on the rest of the seasons!!
Review: I'm truly glad I found this DVD collection. This is simply the best show ever, well, I mean, maybe a tie with ER. I'm writing this just to implore the Buena Vista home video people to release the rest of the seasons on DVD!! I emailed them but all they got to say was there's no planned date right now. Oh, please, please, please bring on the rest of the seasons! Those poignant moments that make you ponder on the meaning of life itself. This is funny, sad, warm, romantic, dizzy and oh-so-true. This is a gem. Buy this! You won't ever regret it.

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Summary: We need more!
Review: I loved this DVD and have watched it over and over again. I really hope they release Season Two very soon! I am in a completely different world once I put these disks on. It's so real life the way situations are handled and life and dating and being 40 something is brought about. Just simply wonderful!
Why they ever cancelled this show is beyond my comprehension!

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Summary: A Magnifying Glass into the Real World.
Review: Once and Again touched my life so much and I am forever scarred that it was cancelled at the time it was for it could have gone to do and express so much more. Without any doubt in my mind, of all the TV shows that I have been given the oppertunity to watch, this is the BEST of all time. Why? Because it's not a staged, comedy, or slackstick, reality, or evennormal drama. It's real life..
Though I could only relate to one character, on account of being a teenager, I embraced all the characters with a full heart. The cast was amazing and one of the best I have ever encountered. Sela Ward was a most powerful and heartfelt lead, Billy Campbell a most worhty male lead. Julianne Wheeler was nothing short of amazing and incredible; to grasp so much reality into a single character and so young, is just uncomparable. The ever troubled Eli was a perfect match for Shane West, who played the character to the fullest, and Evan Rachel Wood really, truly showed alot of the show's colors. Perhaps the most unnoticed character is Suzanne Thompson for though she is ignored as her character and put aside as the mother of the two children now living with their father and stepmother, she is nowhere near that in her acting and skill. Probably in the top 3 strongest actors, she really makes us feel her pain, her loneliness, her desires, her problems, her estarngement, and depression. To Lily's sister, Jake, and his newly wed wife, Tiffany (forgive me, the names son't come up off the top of my head, you added a masterful support to the lead characters. As for that genius named Erik Stoltz, who encaptured the Mr. Demitri character like no one else could imagine doing so. INCREDIBLE. A well deserved cast.
And the writers, I can't write too much about them because they're talent and skill and understanding of how special and real this show is really turns speechless. A commending well done!
It is a shame that it was cancelled but having the First Season on DVD (which was the only season I did not see) is liek having another family in your house, having emotions running all over the place. It is an incredible DVD set of the most accomplished TV show to date. Pick this up, for it will change your life... do not be discouraged by the main storylines, everyone has their story to tell and they will all unfold. Relatable to anyone in love, divorced parents, kids of divroced parents, adults who cannot find stability in their lives, who have to deal with mentally challenged family and the death of his/her parent. It appeals to any teenager that has a problem fitting in, or one that does seem to always fit in but has trouble accepting who she/he is or cannot seem to get a grip on life. To all those mothers and fathers, children, and the aunts, and the people who touch our lives forever.
It would an even greater crime to not release all 3 season on DVD for only after the first season do we really see the challenges and relatable storylines that encapture our hearts and mirror our own lives: anarexia, learning disabilities, depression, social insecurity, teacher-student relationship, homosexuality, pressure of work, the costs of marriage and combining two families into one, bitter taste of divorce and marriage. It's all there, all the facets of our cultures, of our lives, of our unmerciful society.
Buy and embrace it with all your heart and you will love me for recommending it but then again despise and hate me for I have brought you inot soemthing that you cannot get enough of and after a while of which you will not!
Once and again i repeat, please release Once and Agin Seasons 2 and 3 on DVD, a treasure to keep, a gem to helop heel the problems and troubles of our lives, an escape path to a family unkown to others, only to ourselves. Keep the magic flowing, keep the emotions rising... Once and Yet, Again!

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Summary: Best TV show ever!
Review: This DVD set is great! I was thrilled to find it, and devastated when this show went off the air. Will someone PLEASE convince the "powers that be" to release the other seasons on DVD?