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Popular:S1 Boxed Set

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If anybody is wondering what the third season of popular would happened....

Snice the series left off on a cliff-hanger, creator Ryan Murphy said this is what would have happened, with the 3rd season starting in on the gang's senior year.

*Brooke breaks every bone in her face after being in the accident. Yet when the bandages are revealed. she is exactly the same except brunette.

*Nicole says she was driven to alcohol(and driving drunk) after Mike McQueen sexually abused her.

*Harrison actually chose Brooke, but couldn't reveal his choice to sam.

*Josh's addiction to cockfighting/gambling ruins his relationship with Lily s, so he moves in with Harrison.

I hope that helps some fans.

I bought this one week ago for over 70$ after watching it and waiting and waiting for it to drop to a decent price, now after having actually bought it it drops. I hate my life.

The show popular had potential, but nothing more. It wasn't an awful show nor a great show. The show's main idea was not original at all. High school setting, high school drama, teen love, teen angst etc. What Popular had was a special cast of characters who were each unique in their own way. Each character had a believable and realistic trait about them, only their personalities were blown out of proportion, and lets be honest: it made good TV. In Hollywood we have seen before a group of "friends" who are inseperable and have a lasting bond. In Popular we have a group of "friends" who are not secure. Of course each character has a relationship but it is not a tight knit group that has a love for one another that cannot be broken.

Instead of having conflicts from outside forces, this group of people are constantly fighting with themselves. Inside their group are problems, and this is an essence of importance. It was realistic in a way, because no group of friends is stable. There are always manipulative, self absorbed, jealousy issues- and Popular executes them well. The downfall with Popular seemed to equal out the greatness of the show. I will be honest when I say, some of the stuff in episodes were just plain stupid and not neccesary at all. This is probably why the older audience would avoid the show - and the younger audiences wouldn't quite grasp the concept. If the writers took out the wacky and crazy child stuff the show might've had a chance. I'm talking about flying to Texas and finding someone in a day, or having a cowboy "fight" after school. This is just ridiculous, and what stopped my complete love for it. No wonder the show only lasted two seasons!

Popular is a diamond in the rough. With a good plot, but bad sub plots - its an average show . If your willing to fish out the diamond, you might enjoy it. If your not, then don't waste your time. Definetly worth checking out though and if your not satisfied within, say, six episodes - its just not for you.

I LOVED Popular back in the day. In fact it was the first show i ever watched on the WB. I was thrilled to find that it had been released on DVD and immediately ran out and bought it.

The only problem is now that i've had a taste of it, i need more, and the fact that the second season hasn't been released yet (if i may steal this quotation from Mary Cherry) "is worse than Kathie Lee Gifford singing cabaret!"

How do you describe this show? It is a teen show that revels in its mockery of other popular formulaic teen shows. The meta-humour in this series is priceless (otherwise i wouldn't have spent so much money buying it!) and i am willing to beg and plead on bended knee to get them to release the second season...who's with me?

What can be said for Popular, that hasn't already. It was the freshiest, brilliantly written, and witty show that aired for the two years that it was on the air. All the characters will be remembered, because they were so unique. It sad to think that the ratings for the show went from 3 million to 900,000. But now people will finally have a chance to see what they missed.

EVERYONE here that has wrote a review has said everything anyone can say about such a GREAT WONDERFUL SOOOOOOOOO UNDER-RATED SHOW!
THE ONE LINERS!!!! THE TEAR JERK STORIES!!! THE COMEDIC ACTS THE GIRLS DID!!! THE LIST IS ENDLESS! QUOTE: SAM!, MICHAEL JACKSON CALLED! HE WANTS HIS EYE BROWS BACK!!!! LOLOLOLOLOL

COME ON! IT DOESNT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS! THE WHOLE CAST ROCKS. AND FOR ANYONE THAT DOESNT WATCH THE HILARIOUS TV SHOW 'WHAT I LIKE ABOUT YOU' [AMANDA BYNES / JEANIE GARTH] OUR FAVE GAL PAL 'MARY CHERRY' IS ON IT AS A REGULAR. AND SHE EVEN DOES 'MARY CHERRY' THINGS AS IF SHE'S HER! SO FUNNY!

CHEERS AND PEACE TO ALL!
CAN'T WAIT UNTIL SEPT. 2004!!!! YEAHHHH BABY!!
WOOO HOOOO!
GLENN / USA / SO FLORIDA

Why on heart they didn't put a french language track on the popular DVD's?????????????
this show is huge and in france i'm sure it will never be edited on dvd,exept when i will have 20 years more (i'm 20).Anyway,the editors are so unfair with french people because there are lots of great shows out on dvd,(party of five,will and grace,profiler,and now popular) that aren't available on france ,with no french tracks or subtitles...
this drives me so crazy that i will stop talking because i would be rude.

This is one of the best shows that no one watched. The best charter was of course Mary Cherry, she was hilarious. I hope they bring out all of the seasons on DVD.

I was one of the 3 million folks who caught the initial run of "Popular" on the WB network.

I never watched the upstart network. I only tuned in for "Buffy". I saw the commercials for "Popular" and did not know what to make of it. It just looked stupid, and the one scene where main characters Sam and Brooke fought and Sam said "Cancel My Subscription, I'm Through With Your Issues" just made me think "Ugh.... Sweet Valley Crap."

But then one day my brother was supposed to record something for me on TV, and mistakenly recorded the pilot episode of "Popular". Figuring it couldn't hurt too much, I watched and was immediately hooked by this funny and often times obsurd teen comedy-drama-satire hybrid.

Popular was the pure escapism that teenagers needed at that time. When "Dawson's Creek" kids were spitting out 50 SAT words a minute in their hyperbabble filled storylines. "Popular" was the perfect satire of the melodramatic dramas the WB was known for. "Popular" was about 2 girls on opposite sides of the social scene who are forced together by their parent's sudden engagement. While it was supposed to be serious, at it's core it was a comedy. And a funny one at that. And seeing that the comedy worked more than the drama, the producers went more and more in that direction as the show progressed.

"Popular" touched on taboo subjects of sex, sexual harrassment, homosexuality, teenager's obsession with body image, and talked about these things with a sense of humor that disarmed it's audience.

During the series 2nd season, the show lost a bit of it's focus. I think that network meddling with the storylines and it's timeslot led to it's untimely demise. What makes matter's worst is that the show left it's audience with a dark cliffhanger that would never be resolved. Hopefully if there are strong DVD sales for the First Season, the cast would be able assemble for a reunion to tie up all the loose ends.

But the show's brilliant first season is what the fans have been waiting to see on DVD for years now. It was refreshing to see a show that did not have too much continuity, kind of like a live action version of "The Simpsons". The girls would get a mohawk one episode and the next episode had long hair again. It was funny.

The show also spawned 2 of TV's most memorable Mean Girls, Mary Cherry and Nicole Julian. Before Lindsay Lohan was tormented on the big screen by Rachel MacAdams, Leslie Grossman and Tammy Lynn Michaels were doing it to Carly Pope, Sara Rue, and Tamara Mello on a weekly basis.

You just gotta love a show where the southern belle Mary Cherry responds to a challenge to a fight after school by saying "Bring it on Lilly, I know Tae-Bo".

September 21st can't come soon enough.

Stand out episodes include;

The Phantom Menace
Mo Menace, Mo Problems
Queen B.
Tonights The Night
Caged
Booty Camp
Two Weddings and a Funeral

The subject title says it all. This show is amazing! It's one of the best shows that ever aired on the WB, so naturally they cancel it! But I'm so happy that someone realized that there IS a very loyal cult following to this show and that by releasing this show on DVD would = $$$

Some people don't like this show because they think it's unrealistic and they are right, but that's not the objective of the show. The people are over-the-top versions of people who most likely grew up in high school with (EX: the southern belle, football jock, evil blonde bombshell, rebels, nerds etc.).

The great thing about this show is that it's very funny and very sad at the same time, just like life is sometimes and I think that what's realistic about the show.

Anyways, it's a complete dream come true that this is going to be released on DVD (It hasn't even been released yet and it has made EW's Must List) and now I can get rid of all those old VHS tapes of the show, which I taped off TV! Now I can REALLY get my Mary Cherry fix!!!

It's a shame that the WB seems to have given up on shows that are actually good. Shows like Popular, Angel, and Grosse Pointe all deserved much better.

**** out of ****