Moonlighting - Season 3
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Actor: Allyce Beasley, Bruce Willis, Cybill Shepherd, James Karen, Robert EllensteinBrand: Lions Gate
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 675 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Lions Gate
Product features:
- DVD Details: Actors: Cybill Shepherd, Bruce Willis, Allyce Beasley, Robert Ellenstein, James Karen
- Directors: Robert Butler
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1; Number of discs: 4; Studio: Lions Gate
- DVD Release Date: February 7, 2006; Run Time: 675 minutes
Movie Reviews of Moonlighting - Season 3
Movie Review: A much better season than we thought now that we can watch it straight through
Summary: 5 Stars
Actually, I was really surprised that Season 3 of "Moonlighting" was as good as it was. But then all of the stuff at the beginning of episodes talking about viewers waiting around for new episodes was a painful reminder of what it was like during the 1986-87 season where it seemed like every repeat was a step or two backwards for the series. A full season is supposed to be 22 episodes, and "Moonlighting" could only come up with 15, and since one of those was a clip show ("The Straight Poop") and the one after that the misadventures of Agnes Dipesto and Herbert Viola ("Poltergeist III--- Dipesto Nothing:"), you can knock that number down to an unlike 13. Again I find myself wishing that at least with regards to "Moonlighting" that the show had been a British import, since they are perfectly content to do a full season ("series" in their brand of English) that could be a dozen episodes or less.
So, even though on the one hand we have those back-to-back episodes treading water while Glen Gordon Caron tried to keep the show afloat, right before that point we had a three episode run of "Big Man on Mulberry Street," "Atomic Shakespeare," and "It's a Wonderful Job," which qualifies as constituting as good as it gets with Dave (Bruce Willis) and Maddie (Cybil Shepherd). "Moonlighting" was nominated for fourteen Emmy Awards that season, and unllike the previous year when it was shut out won for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series (Willis), and picked up awards for Hairstyling, Costume, and Editing for a Single Camera Production, all for "Atomic Shakespeare" (which was the most expensive and lowest rated episode for the show). The iambic pentameter show had another five nominations, but "Big Man on Mulberry Street" was up for one (choreography) and "I am Curious...Maddie" had two as well (directing and writing). "Atomic Shakespeare" got a lot of the press, but the standout episode is clearly "Big Man on Mulberry Street," which not only has the great dance number to Billy Joel's music, directed by the great Stanley Donner, but the great scene when Dave finds Maddie in his hotel room and she explains why she is there but will not look at him). The freeze frame at the end ain't bad either, hombres.
Being able to watch these fifteen episodes straight through makes a difference, even when we get to the Sam the Astronaut episodes at the end. The fact that "Moonlighting" was a dramedy is driven home by "Blonde on Blonde," where we have the comedy of Dave following the wrong woman thinking it is Maddie and he is protecting her from having sex with a stranger, and the sobering moment where he goes to her house in the middle of the night to confess that he is in "like" with her and Sam answers the door. The casting of Mark Harmon as the other man is prefect, because we can both hate him for entering the picture and still admit he would be better for Maddie. Besides, her anger over the fact he will not say anything legitimately builds the tension to the point where she hauls off and hits him twice, but not three times (cue: "Be My Baby"). It might be all down hill from here, and "To Heiress Humor" certainly has too much slapstick for my taste, but the moment of absolute wish fulfillment still hits home.
The other surprise is that some of the cases that Blue Moon Investigations handles during Season Three are pretty interesting. There is the dead wife who calls her husband ("The Man Who Cried Wife"), the woman who wanted to end the exchange of torrid love letters ("Yours, Very Deadly"), and the priest who becomes infatuated with a woman he has heard in confession ("All Creatures Great and ... Not So Great"). Plus you can throw in Dave's father's wedding ("The Son Also Rises"). There are really only those two throw away episodes (the clips are great, but we have all of these episodes on DVD, right?), and only "Symphony in Knocked Flat" really goes over the top, so even if the season finale is the beginning of the end, we are still into double figures for great and above average episodes. Now take into account that there are only 15 of them to begin with and that number looks pretty impressive.
The DVD extras include a "Memories of Moonlighting" featurette where Caron, Willis and Shepherd sit down and reminisce (the writer does most of the talking, surprise, surprise), and a commentary track for "The Straight Poop" where they brought in a quartet of women who had labored on the Internet to have "Moonlighting" come out on DVD. This was a real treat and when more of these cult classic television series come out on DVD other producers should considering doing the same. After all, the people who buy television shows that are two decades long are clear die hard (rim shot) fans, and ordinary people who can name an episode two seconds into a clip look pretty good against writers, directors, and actors who are always willing to admit they have not seen the episode they are commenting on since it was first made (but Caron and Harmon are above average despite such limitations in their commentary track).
Summary of Moonlighting - Season 3
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