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The fourth season of “Weeds”
was amazing. Nancy, Andy, Doug, Celia and the kids all relocated from Agrestic to Ren Mar, which apparently borders both Mexico and the Pacific. Suburban dope-pusher Nancy Botwin (Mary Louise Parker) got the most naked ever. (Though the series has long trafficked in guest-star nudity, this is the first season in which Parker sheds.) Julie Bowen cougared Nancy’s son. A tunnel connecting Ren Mar to Mexico was discovered. Albert Brooks AND Lee Majors joined the cast. Near season’s end, there’s a scene with Nancy ordering a gift basket – a scene that should nab Emmys for both Parker and series mastermind Kohan’s insanely clever, sneaky, witty scripting.
An ensemble legal drama from longtime public defender and “Indefensible” author David Feige, “Raising The Bar” looks at how justice is dispensed in The Bronx’s courtrooms. It begins as “L.A. Law” did so long ago, with a lawyer dropping dead on the job and the chain of events his passing sets off. “L.A. Law” creator Stephen Bochco serves as showrunner, but his name is not on the first teleplay.
The series’ large-ish cast includes Melissa Sagemiller (“Sleeper Cell,” “Mr. Woodcock”), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (“NYPD Blue”), Jane Kaczmarek (“Malcolm in the Middle”), J. August Richards (“Angel,” “Conviction”), Gloria Reuben (“ER,” “The Agency”) and Jonathan Scarfe (“ER”).
As one reads the reviews, one pictures many a critic looking at many a wristwatch.
TV Guide gives it a 3 (out of 10) and says:
… shockingly ordinary … A whiff of mildew permeates this earnest ensemble piece …
Entertainment Weekly gives it a “C-plus” and says:
… Charge this one with trying too hard.
USA Today says:
… so slow to start, it might as well be in reverse. The first episode is, simply, flat-out terrible. Which is why, if you're a Bochco fan, you'd be wise to wait for the fourth episode, when Bar moves to mediocre. …
The Wall Street Journal says:
… Despite its updated gloss and cast, in fact, "Raising the Bar" doesn't really break a mold.
The Associated Press says:
… don't be misled. "Raising the Bar" is no breakthrough. … it's dismaying that a series from the man who helped forge TV's future feels like a relic from his past.
The Wall Street Journal says:
… Despite its updated gloss and cast, in fact, "Raising the Bar" doesn't really break a mold. …
The New York Times says:
… liking your job doesn’t necessarily mean you will be good at dramatizing it. … Jerry himself, with his untucked shirts and ties knotted at his rib cage, is such a drag, such a dopey vessel for the show’s naïve rants about the primacy of truth, that I was begging for someone to send him away and submit him to the torture of taking the bar exam in the 49 remaining states.
The Los Angeles Times says:
… an underwhelming new legal drama … It's not all bad, but nothing in it argues that it needed to be made other than to give the people who made it something to do. It's a mediocre misfire in which the odd good parts beg for a better home.
The Chicago Tribune says:
… None of these thinly drawn characters is compelling, and the entire production feels dated and melodramatic. …
The Washington Post says:
… entertaining in a facile way and populated with characters who quickly establish moderately engaging identities. Dull, it's not. …
The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says:
… as pedestrian as cable dramas come. Executive producer Steven Bochco seems stuck in his old ways, like a dog who refuses to learn new tricks. …
The San Francisco Chronicle says:
… Though tonight's pilot barely works on any level and tries so hard to please and be edgy that it may end up alienating people, future episodes do get better. Not better enough to be gold standards in the genre - we haven't seen a good legal drama in some time, from Bochco or others - but the series fits squarely within the parameters of a TNT series. Meaning it's good, not great. Or at least it gets good enough for TNT, eventually. …
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says:
… as pedestrian as cable dramas come. … feels like an attempt at a '90s-era edgy prime-time drama whose time has past. …
The Boston Herald says:
… The cast is weighted with familiar faces, but even its collective talent can’t overcome the shoddy scripts. … Never has the justice system looked so silly. …
The Boston Globe says:
… More like lowering the bar. … hackneyed legal drama … Who ever thought Bochco would be serving up stale David E. Kelley? …
Variety says:
… doesn't so much raise the bar on courtroom series as gently limbo under it. … The premise of ambitious but idealistic young legal eagles battling blind and uncaring justice certainly dovetails with TNT's preference for meat-and-potatoes dramas. It's just that the well-trodden formula can't help but feel a trifle musty. … there's no escaping a nagging sense that the series springs from a well-worn playbook …
The Hollywood Reporter says:
… a solid legal drama with several appealing characters and above-average dialogue. …
I’ve nothing to say about Army Wives: The Complete Second Season beyond the fact that its box art would make for the most effective recruitment poster ever.
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Two weeks ago the first six EXTRA-CRAMMED “24” season sets, including the ones with Naked Mandy and David Palmer and Nina Myers and George Mason and Behrooz and Daniel Dae Kim and Zach Quinto, sold for $39.99. At the moment five of them are $21.99!!
24 Season Two
24 Season Three
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The first 10 seasons of “Cheers,” one of the four funniest sitcoms ever forged, with Woody and Norm and and Lilith Sternan and Nick Tortelli, have fallen for the moment to $15.99 each!!
$19.99 Shield!!
(60% OFF!!)
$18.99 Complete Animated Trek!!
From David Milch, creator of “Deadwood” and “John From Cincinnati”!!
NYPD Blue:$14.99/Season
In The Spring TV Event!!
If you want to own LOST in HD, you can save big by clicking on the Blu-ray Lost Sale!!
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havent caught it before, and already enjoy breaking bad
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stupid glitchy talkback, Idid'nt press anything! Weeds is great, not seen season 4, bit sceptical as Conrad and Halia were my favourite characters and I'm guessing they're not in it. Oh and Mary is so damn fine.
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Yes, it is.
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i shall watch and report on the outcomes!!
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...in the military, I can tell you Army Wives are not that hot.
Also, can anyone recommend a show on par with Jericho? Just caught almost all of season 1 on DVD and I am sad I only have one season to go. -
If they want my money they are not going to get it on these out of order little lame ass compilation DVD's. Same goes with all the animation out there that they do this with. Give me a propper full season set you gold digging bastards.
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Not buying a single one until they release the full season sets on DVD and BR. I'm not falling for their double-dipping tricks anymore. Oh and young Judi Dench was hooooooottt.
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Matter of fact where do people have money for the trivial these days? What you all not eating? Living with mom n dad?
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There's what, two paragraphs, and then about nine screen panels of advertisements? For fucks sake man, for fucks sake.
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..are probably not Army wives, more likely divorced wives now with some richer guy.
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TV these days... 'Soprano's, sociopathic killers. 'Big Love', polygamists (which in real life = slavery for women and child rape). Dexter, serial killer. Weeds, drug dealers. Hey, I enjoy these shows as much as anyone (particularly 'Dexter') but aren't things a little..CREEPY.. in tv-land these days. Makes me miss June and Ward.
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Has been ordered.
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"There can be only one"? How, in this show, does one become the only one? If not beheading, have they found a PG way for them to become The One? Or is this cartoon not for kids (or just for kids who like to see heads cut off).
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I won't ever watch that shit again.
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Wake the fuck up, Herc.
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Yeah, sorry BSG doesn't live up to the high standards the SW series has attained.
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What the fuck is wrong with them that they're putting out these 4 disk sets and not full seasons? If I spend anything on Wolverine and the X-Men or Spectacular Spider-Man or Batman Brave and the Bold, I sure fucking hell won't buy 4 fucking episodes! How the hell are sales of THAT supposed to tell you how well a full season would sell? Chances are better people won't buy the full season if they have part of it as a mini release.
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...it's not the original theatrical on Blu-Ray. No, just more of the same processed video-like substance (SPAV?). No wonder jeditemple is so bitter.SO SAY WE ALL ! ! !
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I knew it wasn't Blu-Ray, but still, I was hoping for something better than another CW 4-episoder. I've seen every Star Wars in 720p on HBO (but had to turn in the cable box I had them all saved on,) and yet when I saw the few brief seconds of 1080p Star Destroyer over Tatooine on the Wall-E bonuses (the Pixar Story doc) I got a wee geek boner. I'm going to go out on a limb and say we'll see the originals on Blu in 2012 for the 35th anniversary...THREE MORE FUCKING YEARS???? Hurry it up, Lucas! I want to give you $100 more dollars of my money before you die!
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BRING BACK THE CURLS, KIM DELANEY!!!
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... 22 hours of fake CGI-animated buildings falling down. When do we get a series called "Grass Growing"? It'd be at least as exciting.
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Save your $$$ on those punk-ass 4 episode hors d'oeuvres and wait for the main course.
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the los angeles times review can be used to describe me and my l
by iwasredempted
"It's not all bad, but nothing in it argues that it needed to be made other than to give the people who made it something to do. It's a mediocre misfire in which the odd good parts beg for a better home."HA! self deprecating humor. it's funny because it's true.
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dammit. fucking talkback form.
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is good but i hate mexicans and i think the blacks are funnier. just kidding. ha, racist humor.
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Hey! Don't forget the cancer patient meth cooker!!
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ya know you made me think though. Growing up (I am an old fuck), I had programs like Star Trek, Wild Wild West, the Irwin Allen stuff like Voyage/Lost In Space/Time Tunnel/Land of Giants,etc., Outer Limits, Get Smart, etc.etc. Nowadays what do kids have besides the stuff on Disney and Nickolodeon? Everything is so dark. Although, as a kid, I'm sure I would have thought programs like Frings and CSI as the coolest.
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