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Big Little Lies – The Complete Second Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Jan 7, 2020
5 min

Big Little Lies – The Complete Second Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Big Little Lies: The Complete Second Season Big Little Lies The Complete Second Season (2019) (Warner Bros.-2020) When Big Little Lies debuted on HBO in 2017, it was proof positive – if more was needed – that television drama had surpassed film as the go-to destination for Hollywood’s creative community. Created by longtime television icon David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal, The Practice), based on a hit novel by Liane Moriarty (who also contributed to the writing of the series) an

Supergirl & DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – The Complete Fourth Seasons (A PopEntertainme

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Sep 17, 2019
4 min

Supergirl & DC’s Legends of Tomorrow – The Complete Fourth Seasons (A PopEntertainme

Supergirl – The Complete Fourth Season Supergirl The Complete Fourth Season (2018-2019) (Warner Bros.-2019) DC’s Legends of Tomorrow The Complete Fourth Season (2018-2019) (Warner Bros.-2019) The Greg Berlanti-fronted DC Universe of TV series has been going on for quite a while now as Arrow heads into its eighth and final season. The shows have mostly been relatively popular (based on the curve that many of them have run on the CW, which has low enough ratings in general to g

The Deuce (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Feb 19, 2018
5 min

The Deuce (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Deuce – The Complete First Season 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 world’s largest mega-mall, New York was America’s dangerous heartbeat; a throbbing, passionate netherworld of crime, mus

24: Legacy (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Dec 1, 2017
4 min

24: Legacy (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

24: Legacy – Season One 24: Legacy Season One (2017) (Fox Home Video – 2017) It’s a little disorienting to return to the universe of 24 without Kiefer Sutherland’s scowling super-Fed Jack Bauer saving the world. However, Sutherland has left the role behind. He’s now saving the world as President in Designated Survivor. What is CTU going to do? This reboot of 24 is different from the original series in several ways, so the fact that they have a new lead role is not all that sh

Designated Survivor – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Sep 4, 2017
4 min

Designated Survivor – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Designated Survivor – The Complete First Season Designated Survivor The Complete First Season (2016-2017) (ABC Studios) It is sort of ironic that Designated Survivor is becoming so popular running during the Trump administration. In many ways, President Tom Kirkman (played by Kiefer Sutherland) is many things that Trump promised he would be on the campaign trail (and then he promptly broke all those promises when he was voted in): A non-partisan political outsider who is will

The Magicians – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Jul 19, 2016
4 min

The Magicians – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Magicians – Season One The Magicians Season One (Universal Home Video) The Magicians is sort of like what Hogwarts Academy from the Harry Potter books would be like if it were visualized by MTV – lots of gorgeous college-aged students misbehaving and experimenting with spells, sex and bacchanalia. This new series, which debuted on SyFy Channel last December, is based on the trilogy of novels by Lev Grossman – The Magicians (2009), The Magician King (2011) and The Magician

Hiya, Kids!! A ’50s Saturday Morning (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Jul 10, 2008
9 min

Hiya, Kids!! A ’50s Saturday Morning (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Hiya, Kids!! A ’50s Saturday Morning Hiya, Kids!! A ’50s Saturday Morning (Shout! Factory-2008) A little song. A little dance. A little seltzer down your pants. This DVD takes you to those wonderful bygone days when marketers first got wet for the impressionable 1.3 bazillion baby boomers under age ten. You can just hear the “ka-ching” in every candy bar and cheap toy shoved at the tiny, flickering screen. They stop just short of saying, “do you know where mommy’s pocketbook

Get Smart – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Jan 4, 2008
6 min

Get Smart – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Get Smart – The Complete Series Get Smart The Complete Series (1965-1970) (HBO/Time-Life-2007) Okay, I have to admit it. I cheated a little. Whenever I review DVD box sets, I make it a rule to watch every single episode in the package. Usually I try to sit through all of the extras as well. Unfortunately, as much as I have been loving this return to the show that is my favorite situation comedy of all time (sorry, Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer… you come in second), I am

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Aug 18, 2007
5 min

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries (Season One) The Hardy Boys / Nancy Drew Mysteries Season One (1977) (Universal Home Video-2005) The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries was a short-lived ABC series about three chicks solving crimes in a world that resembles a studio back lot and there is nothing to Google. Despite their feather-haired cuteness, trouble just seems to find them. In almost every case, some poor schlub is either framed for a mild crime or scared off his land, w

Kitchen Confidential – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Aug 12, 2007
4 min

Kitchen Confidential – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Kitchen Confidential Kitchen Confidential The Complete Series (2005) (20th Century Fox Home Video-2007) Kitchen Confidential came and went as fast as standing in line at McDonald’s Express. In it, superstar chef Anthony Bourdain (rechristened Jack for the series), as played by the underappreciated Bradley Cooper, talks about how your restaurant meal should “dazzle, amaze and delight.” Check, check and check. And yet, the mysterious Fox network raised a finger and yelled, “Che

How I Met Your Mother – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

May 27, 2007
3 min

How I Met Your Mother – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

How I Met Your Mother – Season One How I Met Your Mother Season One (2005-2006) (Fox Home Video-2006) Those charmingly misguided TV sitcom writers seem to have four general rules: One: all twenty-somethings, regardless of financial obligation and career path, must live in Manhattan, in cool apartments with HUGE bathrooms. Two: all Manhattan-dwelling twenty-somethings are magically blessed with lots of free time, despite claiming they have jobs that would normally tie up its v

Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Jan 15, 2007
2 min

Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Glenn O’Brien’s TV Party Premiere Episode 12/18/78 The Time & Make-Up Show 8/19/79 The Halloween Show 10/31/79 (Brinkfilm/MVD-2006) The question isn’t this: how much can you endure of artsy New York hipsters who think they are smarter, cooler and more detached than you? The question is this: how do all the Lower East Side struggling artists – who this late seventies’ cable-access show is aimed at – afford cable? We’ll never know, nor will we care, nor

The Dick Cavett Show – Hollywood Greats (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

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Jan 15, 2007
4 min

The Dick Cavett Show – Hollywood Greats (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Dick Cavett Show – Hollywood Legends The Dick Cavett Show Hollywood Greats (Shout! Factory-2006) Marlon Brando flies all the way from Tahiti to warn us about the plight of the American Indian, whether we want to hear about it or not. Bette Davis calls the film Myra Breckenridge “a disgrace.” Fred Astaire treats us to his singing and dancing until we want to beg him to stop. Alfred Hitchcock unintentionally shows us his Alfred Hitchcock impression. Groucho tells tiresome s

The Brady Bunch – The Complete Final Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Dec 12, 2006
4 min

The Brady Bunch – The Complete Final Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Brady Bunch – The Complete Final Season The Brady Bunch The Complete Final Season 1973-1974 (Paramount Home Video-2006) In this, its final season, the kids of The Brady Bunch are trying their darndest to keep it perky, but are as weary as the tired plots that sputter out as the series crawls to a close. However, don’t stick a fork in it yet – the show never even charted in the Top 10 during its five years in prime time, but once it became an afternoon rerun staple…well, y

Dharma & Greg – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Nov 18, 2006
4 min

Dharma & Greg – Season One (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Dharma & Greg – Season One Dharma & Greg Season One (1997-1998) (Twentieth Century Fox-2006) Watching the terrific Dharma and Greg reminds us of the time in which it was first broadcast, the late nineties; an era not so far away, yet compared to what was to come, now seems like a million years ago, a tranquil oasis of nice and peaceful. If we miss the Clinton years now, watch this DVD and miss him a lot more. Little did we know what horror lie ahead, both in real life and on

The Job – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Sep 27, 2006
6 min

The Job – The Complete Series (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Job – The Complete Series The Job The Complete Series (2001-2002) (Shout! Factory-2005) It is a mystery why Denis Leary has never become huge. He’s one of the funniest guys in show business, and yet none of his films or TV ventures seems to catch on. He is a brilliant stand-up comedian (just track down his old CD No Cure for Cancer) who has tended to stand out in a series of not very good movies. He never captured the potential he showed in his debut starring film, The Re

Bewitched – The Complete First Season – In Color (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Revie

PopEntertainment

Aug 11, 2006
9 min

Bewitched – The Complete First Season – In Color (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Revie

Bewitched – Season One – In Color 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 sixties comfort-food buzzwords such as “typical suburban housewife” and “All-American girl.” However

The Dick Cavett Show – Comic Legends (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Feb 21, 2006
6 min

The Dick Cavett Show – Comic Legends (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Dick Cavett Show – Comic Legends The Dick Cavett Show Comic Legends (Shout! Factory-2006) Everybody loves Dick, and these comic legends are not above getting hep to the times and letting it all hang out. Bob Hope, for instance, laments that he hasn’t taken the time to read more books. And a weary Lucille Ball, when asked about the Women’s Liberation movement, admits, “I’ve been liberated beyond endurance. I would like somebody to lean on, myself.” Bill Cosby calls his mas

Charles in Charge – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Feb 18, 2006
7 min

Charles in Charge – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Charles in Charge – The Complete First Season Charles in Charge The Complete First Season (1984-1985) (Universal-2006) Scott Baio, formerly of Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi fame, plays Charles, a stylin’ mid-80s college student (dig those skinny ties, suspenders and sweater vests) who decides to pay for his tuition and get free board by playing nanny for a suburban couple and their group of precocious kids. It is difficult, however, to get kids to grow up nicely and prop

The Best of the Electric Company (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

PopEntertainment

Feb 12, 2006
3 min

The Best of the Electric Company (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Best of The Electric Company, Vol. 1 The Electric Company The Best of the Electric Company (Shout! Factory-2006) HEY, YOU GUYS! Just when you thought you couldn’t recapture any more of your TV-watching childhood, The Electric Company has surprisingly and blessedly come to DVD. Nowhere near as good as you remember it – with crude graphics, cheesy synthesizers and overlong segments (it’s stuffed to the gills at 29 minutes per) – you’ll be amazed that you’re still entertaine

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