Will & Grace - Season Five
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Movie Reviews of Will & Grace - Season Five
Movie Review: Syndicated Versions: YOU SUCK!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Of course, I rushed to rip open the box to watch my fav episode (with Madonna) to find SYNDICATED VERSIONS!!! WTF? This gem of an episode barely lasts 22 mins on DVD but was "extended" on NBC. FOr someone who has seen it several times, it is VERY VERY NOTICEABLE where the cuts are. HOW DARE YOU!!!! We waited all this time for a sub-par season 5? Shame on you, LionsGate. Shame on you.Movie Review: We waited 1 year and 13 days for this?
Summary: 1 Stars
As Will & Grace fans, we've been slighted time and time again with regard to DVD releases, whether from lack of special features, from slow release schedules, or from problems with actual DVDs. It was bad enough that Lion's Gate botched the releases for seasons 2 and 3, but now they've done all of us W&G fans a tremendous injustice by giving us syndicated versions of episodes of our beloved, recently-departed show.
That's right, the six episodes from season 5 that are what NBC liked to call "super size" episodes (Boardroom and a Parked Place: 40-min, Women and Children First: 40-min, Dolls and Dolls: 40-min, May Divorce Be With You: 35-min, 23: 40-min, 24: 45-min) appear on this DVD set as the syndicated, or "cut", versions! When a normal-length episode is cut for syndication, it's not fantastic, but it's also not of too much consequence because not a lot of footage is removed; however, when an episode is extended to begin with and it is cut for syndication and crammed into a 22-minute timeframe, that is disastrous not only because several minutes of footage are removed, but also it runs the risk of the episode being non-sensical because too much footage is removed.
With as slow of a release schedule as Lion's Gate has resorted to since the season 3 DVD set, one would think that that would give them the time to ensure quality DVD releases. That seemed to be the case, as the season 4 DVD set was perfect, but Lion's Gate is back to business as usual: inferior DVD season sets. This time though, they are doing us a sincere three-fold disservice by:
1) giving us syndicated versions of episodes on DVD,
2) not labeling the DVDs as containing syndicated versions,
3) charging us the same price as the other season DVD sets for an inferior product.
Like a previous reviewer suggested, it's time to start the boycott. Lion's Gate has to realize that we're not happy about this release, nor are we willing to tolerate any more syndicated episodes on DVD! I urge you to contact them now to let them know how you feel about this. It takes only a few voices to elicit change.
Movie Review: The season the show offically lost its steam.
Summary: 3 Stars
I'm a Huge fan of Will & Grace. I think it is without a doubt one of the best shows on TV. That said this season was about 50/50, and for a show that's previous seasons were 90/10 that doesn't say much. This season for some reason the shows creators decided it was time for Grace to get married. They chose Harry Connick Jr. as her love interest Leo. This decision threw the show completely off the course, and in my eyes changed what the show was about. Two friends.....It became more about Grace getting married, being a newlywed, and trying to deal with a husband that wasn't around quite so much. Karen and Jack remain hilarious as always. Jack continues his career of being a struggleing actor and Karen divorces Stan after discovering he was having an affair with Minnie Driver who was suprisingly HILARIOUS.
The one thing that I will say about this season is that it has some of the funniest episodes of the series. Mainly the season finale which features Karen, Will, Grace, and Jack putting Stan to rest at sea. Without giving away too too much two of the characters go overboard, someone might be cheating, and two characters end up in bed together. By far one of the funniest episodes EVER!
Good show, and just a ok season.....Still worth the buy!
Movie Review: So So Season, Bad DVD Release
Summary: 3 Stars
Season 5 was the beginning of the end for Will and Grace. This is where it really became obvious that the show was going downhill (and never recovered). This is chiefly due to two things: bad scripts and too many guest stars. To put it quite simply, the show just wasn't that funny anymore. Amusing yes, but far too often I was simply chuckling when I should've been gasping for air after having laughed so hard. But I didn't. It was kind of sad, really. The whole plot about Will and Grace trying to have a child was abandoned after three episodes, but not before they had the mother of all spats that quite simply was too real to be funny or enjoyable. And then it got worse. The addition of Harry Connick Jr. as Grace's boyfriend and eventual husband may have sounded good on paper, but on screen was simply disastrous. Connick Jr. is in fact a very capable and likable actor, but he was completely lost and not very funny. It's not really his fault. The writers didn't know what to do with him, and once they discovered that, kept him off the show as much as possible (a wise choice). Likewise the character of Elliot only appeared once (another pointless character). The whole season wasn't a total loss, as there were some gems scattered in there, but clearly the magic was gone. And the proliferation of "guest stars" was too gimmicky and distracting and again not funny, particularly Madonna, in a painful appearance as Karen's roommate!
Now as for the DVD, as a few people have noted, the episodes on the set are not the original broadcast episodes, but ones trimmed for syndication. Those who don't watch the show religiously probably won't notice, but for the rest of us, this is inexusable. Most episodes have been trimmed by a minute or two, but some have been hacked, as they were originally either an hour long or one of NBC's "Supersized Episodes." In any event, it's an insult to the fans who now have to wait a full year between releases. The whole point of having these episodes on DVD is to have the entire, uncut shows, and to have these shortened ones instead is a disservice to the fans and is just plain lazy. But, unfortunately, unless enough people complain or refuse to purchase these truncated sets, this is as good as it's going to get.
Movie Review: Edited episodes no commetaries. Start the boycott
Summary: 1 Stars
What is going on with this set? WILL & GRACE has one of the slowest release schedules so you;'d think there would be plenty of time for adding bonus features (and assembling clips from this season's episodes into three-minute montages is nobody's idea of a bonus). Where are the commentaries by the entire cast? Its just cheap. Now, we find out that the episodes are syndicated versions with minutes trimmed from each episode? Who in their right mind wants to collect edited episodes (especially when the show is playing four times a day on TV in that same edited format). People who buy season TV sets are collectors and want COMPLETE episodes. There's no excuse for foisting episodes that were edited to make room for more commercials after it went into syndication. And anyone who thinks we should be happy for such shoddy treatment, i ask, "Would you by a movie on DVD that had a musical number, an action chase scene or some dialog cut from the version you saw in the theatre?"