Superman and Lois The Complete First Season (2020-2021) (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment-2021) It’s a tough time for the CW Arrowverse. The block of TV series based on DC comic heroes – which for much of the past several years have been a huge chunk of the network’s programming – are losing ground both in popularity … Continue reading
The Deuce The Complete First Season (HBO Home Entertainment – 2018) New York City in the 70s was dirty, sleazy, violent and wild, but it also had a certain throbbing energy that the current Disney-ification of the city has pretty much defanged. Long before sky-high rents and massive chain stores turned the city into the … Continue reading
The Last Man on Earth The Complete First Season – 2015 (20th Century Fox Home Video-2015) Apocalypse is not considered to be a subject which elicits yuks, so the idea of surviving in a post-apocalyptic world would seem an odd subject for a sitcom. Well Will Forte (Saturday Night Live, Nebraska) has created a sitcom … Continue reading
The Bridge: The Complete First Season (Fox Home Video – 2014) Juárez, Mexico was recently found to be the most violent city in the world, therefore it makes a fascinating setting for this dark, surreal crime drama. Known for its astronomical murder and kidnapping rates (since the ’90s nearly 400 women have been killed there, … Continue reading
Resurrection – The Complete First Season (2014 – ABC Home Video) On March 9th, 2014, ABC premiered Resurrection, a drama-filled hour that has turned out some interesting and intriguingly good television on Sunday nights at 9:00. Based on the book The Returned by Jason Mott, the producers have taken an unlikely subject that the average … Continue reading
Cougar Town The Complete First Season (Buena Vista Home Video-2010) It is rare for a new TV series to be met with the kind of derision that Cougar Town faced upon its debut last fall. It was somewhat surprising, too. After all, it was created by Bill Lawrence, who previously had run the very funny series Spin City and Scrubs. It stars … Continue reading
Hannah Montana The Complete First Season (2006-2007) (Walt Disney Home Video-2008) How you respond to Hannah Montana can probably be crystallized by how you react to this mental picture: An actress, playing the Queen of England, competing in a dancing video game, telling her opponent, with a clipped, aristocratic accent, “Don’t hate the playa, hate the game.” … Continue reading
Father Knows Best Season One (1954) (Shout! Factory-2008) A fresh look at Father Knows Best does nothing to answer that chicken-or-the-egg dilemma which has haunted us for over a half century: was family life in the 1950s really this stable, or did television devise a set of standards for happy living so impossible to attain that it could … Continue reading
HOWARD HESSEMAN AND LONI ANDERSON LIVING ON DVD IN CINCINNATI by Jay S. Jacobs “Baby, if you ever wondered whatever became of me… I’m living on the air in Cincinnati. Cincinnati – WKRP.” So starts the theme to one of the classic sitcoms of the late Carter administration, WKRP in Cincinnati, which is finally being released on DVD. The series was made … Continue reading
Bewitched The Complete First Season – In Color (1964-1965) (Sony-2006) When Bewitched premiered in the fall of 1964, it was so high-concept that during its first few episodes, it needed a narrator to tell us that Samantha was a witch. This introduction was written ironically, being that she was supernatural and yet just like us, using favorite … Continue reading
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