Customer Reviews

Felicity Box Set

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Felicity was one of my favorite shows of all time. I became addicted within the first couple of episodes. I really loved the characters and the plot lines. I started out as a Felicity and Noel fan and only came to like Ben in later years. I thought this show had a great combination of humor, drama and fun. I am going to buy the first season on DVD when it's released. I really hope they release all of the other seasons on DVD too so I can see the episodes that I missed. I hope lots of people buy the first season so that they release the others too.

I love the series and relly do miss it... this dvd collection is a great look back and I have watched it several times!

Okay, so I never went away to college. I went locally and bunked with the parents. When this show came out in '98 my sister, who did go away to college, told me about it. I was skeptical, thinking that I could and would never enjoy a show that I couldn't possibly relate to or understand. I was wrong. I started watching around episode 7. I was totally hooked. The characters were amazing and the scripts so well written. The acting was flawless. Every Sunday my sister and I would have a date with the TV. I don't think I missed a single episode. But, I was thoroughly bummed when the show ended. (Although, I thought that if they had continued it would be hard to pull off.)
I LOVE that I now can own all the shows and have them forever. I can watch them over and over again. I have a daughter who is three, and I can't wait to watch them all with her someday.
For some reason this show has touched me to the core. I am not sure why, but it has and does. It's worth every penny and hour spent watching.

I just finished watching my dvd set of season one and it just made me remember how compelled I was to watch this show every week when it debuted in the fall of 98. It was my third year in university and I identified so much with felicity and her longing for someone she wanted so bad. Not having seen the show since the first season years ago, I forgot how much I loved Keri Russell and all the drama surrounding her neuroticism and the ongoing Ben - Noel fiasco. The first season really almost could stand on it's own without continuing the story into the following seasons. Though the season ending cliffhanger means I have to buy season 2 so I can find out how felicity's college years continued to play out. Even though the show ran for only four years, it was a rather appropriate run for a show set in college. Anything more and it would have been a bit contrived.

It was interesting to go back and watch the freshman year of "Felicity" again on DVD, knowing who Felicity (Keri Russell) was going to end up with at the end of not only the first season but the entire series. You have to understand that I was always rooting for Noel (Scott Foley) over Ben (Scott Speedman) and ended up caring for Julie Emrick (Amy Jo Johnson) more than Felicity, even before she made the wrong choice. But then the first season of "Felicity" is all about wrong choices and the human train wreck that is Felicity Porter. Our local cable company lost its WB affiliate all I ever got to see of the second season was the first episode where I was outraged by the revelation of Felicity's decision and took a perverse satisfaction in the infamous hair cut. But then my anxiety was quickly shifted to finding friends or relatives around the country who could tape "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" for me and I quickly forgot about "Felicity." When we got the WB back I caught a few of the finale episodes, including the "time travel" ones, which brought the whole first season back to light again.

Once upon a time a young girl named Felicity finally got the nerve after her high school graduation to finally go up and speak to the good lucky guy she always had a crush on. He signed her yearbook and what he wrote was enough to have her decided not to go to Stanford to study to be a doctor but to head to New York to follow the boy, Ben. The big public comment on the first season was that if you reversed the two roles you would have the story of a stalker. But since it was a girl doing the stalking and because she had wonderful ringlets of curly hair, the behavior was apparently okay. More importantly, Felicity pays for her actions in those first three episodes, where she crashes and burns at just about each and every opportunity, and the show is more about getting away from her parents than it is about pursuing Ben Convington.

Unlike "Twin Peaks," where the hook ended up destroying the series, "Felicity" avoids the mistake and comes up with the most credible job of showing what college is like on television since "The Paper Chase" (which was really on point only if you were in law school). The episode "Cheating" involved the topic of plagiarism while the two-parter on "Drawing the Line" dealt with the issue of date rape, both of which were dealt with in responsible manners. The second time I saw the latter I had the exact same thought when Ben starts beating up on Zach, who yells for him to stop, and Ben does saying: "When you said 'Stop,' I did. That's the difference between us." At the other end where we deal with comedy there is Noel on "smart juice" during "Finally," Felicity putting "sex with Noel" down in her day planner in "Give Me an O," and when Meghan's parents confront Felicity with what they found in "her" box in "Happy Birthday."

I also like the fact that although the show focuses on the love triangle between the three principles and the problems of Felicity's gal pals Julie and Elena (Tanig Miller), that background characters like Sean (Greg Grunberg) and Megan (Amanda Foreman) could emerge so strongly, especially the later, who starts off as a one joke characters as Felicity's absent roommate and ends up stealing every since scene she is in the rest of the season. But replacing Javier (Ian Gomez) with Abby and Danny was a mistake, that was thankfully rectified the next season. Yes, there are bits that will go too far for your tastes, such as Felicity agreeing to marry Javier so he can stay in the country (although I loved it when she brightly announced "I'm marrying a gay guy too" to Noel's gay brother's partner) and a college professor deciding to have an affair with a freshman, but there are enough legitimate track wrecks to keep you attentive.

The extras are sparse on these DVDS, with commentary by the creators on the first and last episodes, and my biggest complaint is that there are no chapter stops for the episodes, so that when I wanted to check and see if Bradley Whitford's name appeared in the end credits of "Birthday" it was a pain to check it out. On to Sophomore year so I can find out what happened to Felicity after she went bald...

What can I say but relive my college years through the eyes of Ms. Felicity Porter. I first heard of this show and began watching it because a former classmate of mine named Tangi Miller (Elena) was on the show. She was a graduate student at my drama school at UC Irvine when I was an undergraduate pursuing the same field. Boy was I glad to come across this gem. Drama, acting, writing and music aside, this 1st season really captured what it was like to be in college all over again. There's a scene in one of the early episodes where Felicity goes to a grocery store and buys a pint of ice cream along with a silver spoon. I remember doing the exact same thing because I didn't have a spoon in my dorm room. Another episode that takes place during finals week uses subtitles, a brilliant idea on the part of the writers, because Felicity and Ben are whispering in the library, prompting the other students to say "Shhhhh!!!" in disgust. Some may say that Felicity is unrealistically passionate or too obesessive but it only heightens the drama of being alone for the first time in a new world known as college. This 1st season dvd is a must own for anyone who wants to remember a part of their past or just enjoy a really great drama. The soundtracks on this show is simply amazing. Many scenes display the full emotion of pain, love and laughter simply by the use of the carefully chosen song on top of images. Felicity is and was the best drama on tv over the last handful of years. Enjoy!!!

Kerri Russell was greatly casted as the show's main character Felicity Porter. We see her make life altering decisions, starting by not going to Stanford and following her heart to New York to go to school with her High School Crush Ben.

If you have ever gone to college and lived in a dorm, you will really like this series. The awkwardness of your first day at school, making new friends, and meeting your new roommate.

They really casted every part well, and the actors have great chemistry, which makes this series very fun to watch over and over again.

I never saw this show when it originally aired and only discovered it recently on WE TV and the DVD's. I watched the entire first and second season in the weekend after my DVDs arrived. Talk about hooked! This show is fabulous.

I would definitely say that this is one of the best series' of all times for an absolute idiot. If you are in to being a moron or shooting yourself in the foot for fun, then you will love this DVD...All joking aside folks, this show is truly an absolute joy to watch. Those who do not get this show certainly must have much more to do with their lives than to watch and see if some dumb broad cuts her hair off or not (like that is going to change the fact that she sucks). If you purchase this, you may be sadder than when you actually watched new episodes air with all of your slightly less inteligent friends. Enjoy this gem, or go buy Aqua Teen Hunger Force if you want a bigger laugh.

i've never liked a series as much as I like Felicity!!!!! i own season 1 AND 2 and now i'm juss waiting for season 3 and 4 to be released!!!!! Juss everything about the show is great! its quirky humor, relationships with friends, family and lovers is juss something that is completely REALISTIC and juss something you can totally relate to. Overall, its TWO thumbs up for me! i can almost guarantee anyone that watches this will be hooked ! if you juss watch how the relationship between ben and felicity unfolds, you'll start to feel as if the show has become a part of you!