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Summary: Enough Already!
Review: Ok folks, enough whining about the disc only being 8 episodes. I do not see anyone remembering that Season 4 gave us 18 episodes. If you are a true fan, you will add this season to your collection, no matter what. The episdoes are as good as ever and manage to make me both laugh and cry (especially the wonderful season finale). I honestly can't think of another series that has managed to do that in a 30-minute format! So, let's average the number of episodes from Seasons 4 and 5 and be happy to have 26 great half hours that we will all watch again and again, long after the show is over.
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Summary: Delightful
Review: Forget what some of these disgruntled viewers are saying about Season 5 -- it's just as delightful to watch as the first four seasons.The characters are still rich in depth and sketched with compassion. Notably, there is an undertone of poignancy and even loneliness that I cannot help but link to the fact that these were written and filmed post 9/11. Not to worry: these characters will still make you laugh! I love NYC. And I love Sex and the City.
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Summary: I wanna bang Kim Cattrall!!!
Review: Kim Cattrall is freakin amazing! I'd bang her so hard I'd knock her into next week, baby! I'm Marc Robertson and I say order this - just for Kim - it's reason enough.
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Summary: Why so expensive?!
Review: I LOVE SATC as much as....many more than the next guy. But dang, why does 8 episodes on 2 disks have to be so frikin epxpensive?!!! I'm a college student and i can't afford it...otherwise i would have pre-ordered it a long time ago. Besides the price, I enjoyed season 5 even tho it was man short.
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Summary: Short Season but Quality Episodes...
Review: This set offers the best transfers so far with crystal clear resolution and strikingly vibrant colours. For the first time 5.1 surround sound has been applied to each episode. In fact, the show looks and sounds better then when it originally aired on HBO. Unfortunately, the amount of supplemental material is still on the skimpy side but the quality of the show is what counts. "When you are single and live in New York, there is no end to the ways to fill your day. Museums, parks, theaters, concert halls, night clubs and countless restaurants." This quote, spoken by Carrie at the beginning of the first episode perfectly encapsulates the central theme of the season: being single in the city. As the season begins Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha are all getting over men in their lives. The best episodes of this season are the ones where our four leading ladies celebrate their individuality. From their trip to Atlantic City to celebrate Charlotte's birthday to Carrie and Samantha's cross-country train ride for Carrie's book reading and signing gig in San Francisco (with a classic appearance by Mr. Big), these characters revel in the bachelorettehood. They prove that older women do not have to conform to the traditional belief that by a certain age you must be married and have children. Sex and the City's strengths are many, most notably its great writing, fantastic cast and the locations. The show is actually shot in New York City and this gives it a real sense of place, unlike Friends (also set in the Big Apple) which only offers a simulacrum of the city. Sex and the City really captures the high level of energy inherent with living in Manhattan. People are more aggressive, they don't hold back anything and aren't afraid to tell it like it is. For anyone who lives or has lived in the city, there are not only many landmarks on display that only they will recognize but also a few obvious ones that anyone who has a passing familiarity with the city will know. As for the extras -- one of the show's producers and writers, Michael Patrick King contributes three audio commentaries for three of the episodes. On the season opener, "Anchors Away," he talks about how they set the tone of that particular season and how the events of 9/11 affected how they depicted life in New York City. He has a very engaging voice and conveys a lot of good information and observations on this track. Fans of the show will definitely want to check out his commentaries. "Interactive Trivia Game" is a bland game where one has to answer questions that pertain to the fifth season. It's a shame the DVD producers didn't take pointers from the Legally Blonde 2 DVD which had the cast and crew actually ask the questions and offer funny answers to right and wrong answers specifically done for the disc. A missed opportunity to be sure. "Behind the Scenes with Costume Designer Patricia Field" is an interesting look at one of the most important aspects of the show: what the characters wear. Comparing this set to the first season box set only reinforces the great leaps of quality and quantity that has gone into these DVDs.
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Summary: BLEAK AND HUMORLESS CITY
Review: In addition to the much booed price, the stories have a very dark tone to them - where's the humor in the face of adversity that peppered the previous 4 years? Where is their strengh and composure - what the hell happened? Episode 1 was particularly grating; Carried dating "the city," and a miserable scene with a Navy LT asking for a breast shot from Charlotte - horrible. It's too late to make these women into "real" women - it's not what we signed up for.
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Summary: Poor excuse for SEX
Review: I am an avid "Sex" fan, and we were most disappointed not only with the lack of episodes, but with the lack of plots. Let's hope that they are saving the best for last.............
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Summary: ONLY 8 BLAH episodes???? Come on people!!
Review: i am a HUGE fan of sac. I knew episodes by heart, this show was like my bible(like most people). I bought ALL seasons eventhough the covers are so cheap and they broke, but id consider buying them again since i love this show so much and its a MUST for my dvd collection! But this season......
I didnt buy it cause i knew it would only be 8 episodes. i just rented it out first and i dont plan to buy it. In all fairness though.... im sure it wouldnt hurt them much to just lower the price! You're buying less than half the material on other seasons. Plus the episodes where..... what happened to this show? It just seemed to repeat itself but in a more superficial way. Where was all that turning of the stomach the other seasons had? This was boring and looked like the whole season was filmed in one day. Very dissapointing.
If youre going to start a show with a huge bang, dont end it so blandly!
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Summary: Worse Season Ever...Here's Why...
Review: Yes, this is the worse of the seasons on DVD so far -- primarily due to the lack of good writing, attempted (but failed) character growth, and the deeply curtailed number of episodes (count them, eight). Now I LOVE Samantha's character's quick-witted sayings: "Vagina weights?" Sam: "Honey, my vagina waits for no man." It's obvious that Season 5 really strives to be funny, but falls short; jocular arguments with Charlotte over the "f" word just aren't funny. I admit the characters have gone through a lot of growth: a baby, broken engagement, Sam's love, broken marriage. But dammit, lame themes and horrible dialog screw up good episodes! Don't pay more than $... unless you're a dedicated fan.
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Summary: A very dedicated fan
Review: I would be lying if I said that I was not a little bit disappointed in the short season. However, this season brought the characters to a whole new level. They matured in ways we wouldn't have expected. Carrie's short rendevouz with Big was almost reminiscent of the first season and the question of having sex like a man, no strings attached. Samantha's emotions for a man and her courage to let him go, showed Samantha in the same light of her relationship with James. Samantha could be committed, even sex-crazed as she was. Miranda has to deal with the "burden" of Brady, bringing out her motherhood skills which we all doubted her to have. Finally, we see Charlotte question her beliefs in love and romance. True, this season was not as emotional or as much of a love-crisis roller coaster as the previous four, but like I said before, as a dedicated fan of the show, I was very glad to see the characters grow up and mature in ways that we wouldn't have expected. They showed an unexpected maturity that forces you into the big thrills that await you in the sixth and final season. A must have for the fan, or even for the casual watcher. If you like Sex and the City, you need these 8 episodes. And, the cost? What is money for, but to splurge every now and then.
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