Girlfriends - The Third Season

Still love this show :-o
To this day, Girlfriends remains one of my favourite comedies. It's great the way they all interact and share laughs and fights and gossip like real girlfriends do. I feel the show keeps progressing well; not slowing down like other programmes out there. It still feels fresh and it still makes me laugh all the time.
Here is the way the episodes unfold on the four discs -

COMING TO TERMS - Singles Welcome. Joan throws a party hoping to find someone and totally strikes out. Then, she decides to hit the road and starts training for a marathon. It's been weeks and Maya still can't get Darnell to open up.

GETTING OUR ACT TOGETHER - A pastor helps Maya and Darnell pick up the pieces of their marriage. Maya finds the therapy doesn't do nearly as much good as an afternoon in ed. It's bottoms up when Lynn lowers the bar as the world's most inexperienced bartender.

SECRETS AND EYES - A birthday plan of Joan's exposes something about birthday girl...

Funny, Inspirational, Funny
My pastor always told me that when life got too hectic, to put in a sitcom and just laugh. That used to be Abbott and Costello. Now, I alternate with Girlfriends. They are smart, funny, zesty, and real. I love the fact that the writers made these four STRONG women, with convictions they stand up for.

The ladies are back!
Girlfriends - The Complete Third Season is my favorite season of the series. Joan, Lynn, Toni, and Maya are back to cause more guy problems for themselves and others. This show has amazing, witty, and sarcastic writing, great acting, and talks frankly about relationship and family dilemmas. I highly recommend purchasing season 3, you will fall head over heels in love with show. Enjoy!

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Beauty and the Beast - The Final Season

Still plenty of good stuff here
Note: This review contains SPOILERS.

This is an issue that has divided Beauty & The Beast fans for almost twenty years, and reading the reviews here, I can see a lot of people are still bitter. While the show certainly suffered the loss of Linda Hamilton, I personally found there was still plenty to enjoy in this abbreviated season.

For one thing, the season-long story arc served the show quite well. The second season's cliffhanger ending left a lot for the writers to explore. So much fuss was made way back in 1989 about the show being "retooled" to attract more male viewers. And I'll admit, there's probably a sizable portion of the potential male viewing audience that is attracted to the increased action and violence. But was the show really THAT different? We still have Ron Perlman and all the others giving it their all (and it was quite an emotional and yes, violent arc for Vincent). The late, talented Edward Albert got moved into a series regular slot. And I...

Love Endures
When the second season of Beauty and the Beast ended, I was one of the many people who wrote to get the show renewed. I had never done anything like that before, but Beauty and the Beast was a show to be passionate about.

I don't remember disliking Diana. As an audience, we weren't given much to work with where she was concerned. And it didn't help that she wasn't "Catherine."

What I do remember, vividly, is the relationship that developed between Vincent and Elliot Burch. For me, the third season was wonderful and wonderous because it showed love enduring. Both men loved Catherine and Catherine loved both of them -- though Burch's feet of clay prevented her from having a deeper relationship with him. (The first season episode where he's introduced even has Vincent acknowledging that Catherine is falling in love with Burch, so please don't think I'm being heretical.)

Seeing how loving Catherine changed Burch and made it possible for Vincent, and, to a...

Flawed, but still beautiful
The 3rd season of Beauty and the Beast definitely takes the series in a very different direction. As the new opening reveals, once Vincent gets past Catherine's murder he will dedicate his life to avenging injustice - in other words, he has been recast here as a sort of beastly Batman, searching the skies for the Beast Signal which will let him know that his services are needed. Much of the first five or six episodes are focused more on the gritty world Above than on Vincent's world in the tunnels - the photography is very different, with a sharper, darker overcast (much of the warmth associated with the tunnel worlds is lost). Additionally, character inconsistencies (especially with Roy Dotrice's "Father") undermine the overall fabric of the story for those of us who followed it closely the first two seasons. This is a much more violent show now, and it's much more "black and white." The new villain, Gabriel, who dominates many of the episodes, is simply evil personified - there...

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Soul Food - The Third Season

SOUL FOOD FANS BEWARE
I am very disappointed in Paramount/CBS. This series was originally advertised as "The Complete Third Season" which like the "The Complete First Season" was supposed to be made up of the ORIGINAL (unedited) shows. However, within the last few days the advertisements have quietly been changed to illustrate..."Soul Food-The Third Season." SOUL FOOD FANS BEWARE, it appears we are going to get chopped, edited, cut up versions of the original shows with different scenes, music, words, etc. I AM VERY UPSET. I fell in love with the "original" versions of these shows and that is what I'd like to see. I am not sure I will purchase this "third season." I think the studios are misguided in "cheating" Soul Food fans out of enjoying the original shows in its entirety (unedited). I was disappointed in quality of the some episodes of the second season because of the OBVIOUS editing. I wish the distributors would just release the series in it's original form and let us edit it at home IF that's what...

Paramount Finally Comes Around
I have seen all episodes of Soul Food Season 3 is Fantastic. You have to own 1, 2, and 3 to truly experience what the BUZZ is all about.....

2 for the price of 1?
Well first of all, I am a die hard Soul Food - The Series Fan, and was extremely pleased when the Third Season was released. Yes there is some minor editing, but overall if you purchase this DVD your money will be well spent! This DVD surprisingly contains both Season 3 and Season 4 (20 episodes in total)...check it out. A stellar cast, great storylines, you can't go wrong! Can't wait for the remaining DVD(s) to be released as it has been a LONG wait.

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