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Summary: Give me more Lary!!!
Review: Gary Shandling is brilliant here, but the best performances come from Rip Torn and Jeffery Tambor.
It is Clever, truly funny, not a formula sit-com at all!
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Summary: Great Show, Disappointing DVD's
Review: Lets just jump right to the DVD quality; if you're looking at this page, you probably don't have to be told why the TV show is great.This DVD is a real disappointment. There are very few extras, and even the menus are as boring as can be. However, the real problem is the video quality. Let me try and make some things clear that might help you if you're deciding to buy this (like I was): Is the video so bad that it's unwatchable? No. And now that I've watched the set, I'd still buy it knowing what I know about the video quality. I don't think most viewers are going to be devastated over the picture. Having said all that, however, the video quality IS noticeably subpar. Just watching on my 32" TV, I could see a pretty big difference between this and other DVD's. And I'm not a huge home theatre enthusiast. I normally couldn't tell the difference between one DVD and another that a real videophile might be able to spot. Bottom line: If you're fairly picky about video quality, these are going to be a big, big disappointment. If you just want to watch the show, you'll probably notice a lower quality but you probably won't be so distracted by it that it detracts from your viewing experience. Just keep in mind, I can't imagine that this set will be reissued anytime soon with better video quality.
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Summary: Top Notch from the Start
Review: Ten years later, the topicality of The Larry Sanders Show may be a bit dated, but the interplay between the main characters - neurotic talk show host Larry Sanders along with sidekick Hank and producer Artie - remains some of the best in television history. This is one of the few series that was as hilarious from episode one as it was during its peak a few years into the run. Don't let critiques over technical issues scare you off. This is great entertainment.
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Summary: More DVDs, PLEASE!
Review: HBO, are you listening? As much as I love "Sex and the City", The Larry Sanders Show is the BEST sitcom that HBO has ever had! The show has millions of loyal fans who religiously watch Larry reruns on the HBO Comedy channel! Thank you for releasing the 1st season on DVD! I bought it the day it came out. Now PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE release the other seasons on DVD! There are millions of fans just waiting to own the complete Larry series on DVD, and I'm one of them. PLEASE release more seasons on DVD!!!
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Summary: A Landmark in U.S. Television
Review: This series must be one of the most original shows ever to have been broadcast on television. It is totally devoid of sentimentality and is utterly compulsive. The acting is exemplary and the script faultless. It will surely go down in history as a tv classic, along with The Phil Silvers Show, The Show of Shows (Sid Caesar) and The Honeymooners. I had always assumed that American tv had hit a peak in the fifties and early sixties, never to be reached again but this proves that there's life in the celebrity-drenched, false and over-exposed medium after all.
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Summary: Not the greatest technical DVD in the world, but who cares?
Review: This is very funny show, one of my favorites, I laughed my [bottom] off watching each episode. Other reviewers bemoaned the lack of technical merit on this recording, but I say it's still better than a tape, and it is the entire first season. I hope they do better if and when they put out subsequent seasons.
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Summary: Worst looking DVD in Years
Review: I agree that this is one of the worst looking DVD's I have seen in a long time. (I don't have top of the line equipment either) The picture looked as if it were constantly raining. The digital artifacts are ever present, and annoying. I found myself so distracted, on several occasions, by how bad it looked, that i actually lost my place. I would not recommed this to anyone. Unless, like me, you missed the first few season on HBO
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Summary: As funny as TV gets
Review: It's a shame that people with complaints about technical quality rather than content have lowered the rating of this from 5 stars. It was a tv show, not Terminator 7, and there is really nothing wrong with the dvd. Luckily, you don't need 9.1 surround sound to appreciate the absolute genius of the writing and acting on this show. Every single episode is brilliant and has at least one or two moments that are funnier than anything else on television. If you have a brain and you like to laugh, this needs to be in your dvd collection.
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Summary: "Look Ma, I'm Making Valuable Mulch"
Review: I loved this DVD set. I have never seen the Larry Sanders show until this DVD because I didn't have HBO, but I heard good things, and I really like Garry Shandling. Anyway, I almost didn't get this set because a few of the reveiwers on this page gave horrible reviews about the DVD quality. From the way they talked about it, I was half expecting a fuzzy picture, or the DVD to not even work. I found NOTHING wrong with the DVD, and I thought it was just as good as any other DVD. Do yourself a favor and buy this DVD. Completely disregard any of the previous bitching about the DVD quality, because it's not bad at all.
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Summary: Rating the DVD NOT the show!
Review: I have to agree with many other opinions that the quality of the transfer to DVD is poor. Only an interview with fat, gay television critic, Tom Shales. I only hope that it is decided to release the remaining seasons with more thought given to the process and the medium. I would hate to give my money to the bootleggers rather than Shandling and Co. but a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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