DVD Review: The Secret Life of an American Teenager, Season One
Created and produced by Brenda Hampton (7th Heaven),The Secret Life of An American Teenager was proposed to the Fox network nearly a decade ago. Fox eventually passed on the show, as did Lifetime. Not wanting to give up on the idea, Hampton eventually drafted six scripts for the show and submitted them to a variety […]
DVD Review: Nip/Tuck – Season Five, Part One
Since Nip/Tuck debuted on FX back in 2003, the series has steadfastly remained one of my guilty pleasures. From the start, I found the show addictive–creator Ryan Murphy constantly pushed the boundaries of cable television, with plentiful amounts of sex, gore and violence. Beyond the obvious, Nip/Tuck was revolutionary because in the midst of all […]
DVD Review: Hannah Montana – The Complete First Season
Until a couple of weeks ago, I was a complete Hannah Montana neophyte. I had watched a few minutes of the show here and there on the Disney Channel, but I don’t think I ever sat down and watched a full episode of the series. Because I’m a reader of magazines like Vanity Fair, Rolling […]
DVD Review: The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, The Best of Season 3
“It is part of the price of leadership of this great and free nation to be the target of clever satirists.” –President Lyndon B. Johnson, in a letter to the Smothers Brothers When The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour premiered on CBS in February of 1967, the show was just a slightly “hipper” version of other […]
DVD Review: Supernatural – The Complete Third Season
Created by Eric Kripke, Supernatural centers on Dean and Sam Winchester (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki, respectively); the two brothers travel around the country in a black 1967 Chevy Impala, investigating paranormal events and other unexplained happenings, many of them based on myths, American urban legends, as well as classic supernatural characters such as vampires, […]
DVD Review: Samantha Who? – The Complete First Season
ABC’s Samantha Who? Os a comedy about a young woman who wakes up from an eight day coma only to discover she has no recollection of who she is or the people who have been in an out of her life. Every day is a revelation, and what she discovers about herself isn’t pretty. “I […]
DVD Review: Two and a Half Men – The Complete Fourth Season
Created by Chuck Lorre and Lee Aronsohn, Two and a Half Men centers on Charlie Harper (Charlie Sheen) whose carefree lifestyle is interrupted when his newly separated brother Alan (Jon Cryer) moves in, along with his son Jake (Angus T. Jones) who lives with them part-time. Berta (Conchata Ferrell), is Charlie’s sarcastic and sharp-tongued housekeeper. […]
DVD Review: Ugly Betty – The Complete Second Season
Ugly Betty is an adaptation of the Colombian telenovela Yo soy Betty, la fea (I am Betty, the ugly), written by Fernando Gaitán. It was adapted into a New York City setting by creator/developer Silvio Horta and co-producers Salma Hayek and Ben Silverman, whose production companies Silent H, Ventanarosa and Reveille respectively, partnered with ABC […]
Blu-ray Review: Grey’s Anatomy – Season Four (Expanded)
Season four of Grey’s Anatomy saw a few changes both on and off the screen as season four of the series got underway in the follow of 2007. Due to her producing responsibilities on both Grey’s and its spinoff Private Practice, series creator Shonda Rhimes assigned the day-to-day showrunning duties to writer and executive producer […]
DVD Review: Dirty Sexy Money – The Complete First Season
It’s shallow I know, but just the title of this series made me believe that this show had the potential to become one of my guilty pleasures. Created by Craig Wright–a writer for such shows as HBO’s Six Feet Under, ABC’s Lost and Brothers & Sisters—Dirty Sexy Money tells the story of the Darling family […]