- Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-smith, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski
- Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC, Import
- Language: English
- Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
- Number of discs: 31
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- Studio: 20th Century Fox
- Release Date: Oct 6 2009
- Run Time: 45 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B002VEJKKY
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Timeless - intelligent and funny!,
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This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Series (DVD)
I got this series as a Christmas gift. In my memory, it was a fun series to watch. Each episode had a theme, moral issues, philosophy and humour rolled up in one well-written and tight package! After each show, you felt like you've came out understanding better how the world works. I was happy to see that each episode still had that effect! The value of Ally McBeal did not diminish with time. If anything, they are even more relevant, considering that the issues back then are even more magnified now! Unlike some series that were better in our memories when watched again with our present mindset, this one still packs a punch! Sure, things got crazy towards the end of it, but compare it to what we see on TV now and you can fully appreciate the intelligence behind it. You'll also appreciate to feel that the writers trusted in you to be clever enough to appreciate it as well. :)
4.0 out of 5 stars
Revisiting "Ally" 14 years later,
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This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Series (DVD)
I had forgotten that the early episodes of this series were a bit creaky. and at first Ally seemedso young, goofy and nervous that she felt more like a teenager than a smart 27 year old lawyer. But by episode 5 or the show and the character finds it's stride. And if it doesn't quite measure up to the best 'grown up' TV of today, it still deserves praise for being one of the series that broke the mold of what a TV show was supposed to be in the US It had an openness to complicated tones that seamlessly mixed wild, sometimes surreal humor, more subtle humor and drama, to long story arcs and not easily solved once a week problems, and to being more about character than event, making TV a more novelistic and sometimes cinematic medium in the process. Certainly Ally McBeal wasn't the first show to do any of these things, but it was one of the first shows that was a big success with these new approaches, and that helped paved the way for many of the best dramas dramadies and comedies on American TV in the years since. I'll admit, with years of even braver shows since, Ally McBeal no longer feels quite as special, and in fact now feels a little limited. Especially with DVDs allowing more than once a week viewing, a certain sameness to Ally's constantly fearful, broken heart and her funny/sad attempts to overcome it starts to plague the show. But there's still a lot to enjoy here. The performances are terrific from top to bottom, and every 'silly' character is given their serious and moving moments, and every 'serious' character is allowed to be laugh-out-loud funny at times. Special mention has to be made of Peter MacNichol's 'The Biscuit', one of the oddest, funniest characters to actually work brilliantly in any series. The writing is sharp and full of wit and pathos. The music is integrated in a way that was rare for TV before, but much imitated since, with montages to songs played and sung by Vonda Shepard (a great voice) who often also appears in the series as a singer at the lead characters favorite after hours watering hole. I do have to say, some of the music now feels, in retrospect, too on the nose. The songs chosen (or written) almost always have lyrics that are too spot on, too obvious a commentary on the action, That good and bad side to the music sort of sums up my perspective on the series looking at it again in 2011. I appreciate and admire it for what it gave us and TV, I still enjoy it, but I'm no longer just blown away by it ' not in a world of Breaking Bad, Weeds, Mad Men, Nurse Jackie, Arrested Development, etc. etc.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Ally McBeal - the complete series,
This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Series (DVD)
I was living overseas when most of the Ally McBeal series was on TV so I only saw a few of the later episodes. To see them at my leisure is so fun... High quality cds and great presentation. It came to me rapidly and in good shape. Thanks
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