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Lip Service - Series 1 (DVD)
by mbaggott1 What an amazing series, packed full of drama, lesbian gossip and dating, and the realisation that being a lesbian is anything but easy! sex, drama, love and trust are all entanglements of this series! Following the lives of several lesbians in Glasgow. Frankie the main character of the tv programme, masculine, indifferent, ... tough and never shows her emotions faces tough choices throughout the episodes. It starts off with Frankie returning to Glasgow after hearing that her Auntie was dying, however not everyone was pleased of comfortable with her appearance ex girlfriend Cat found it hard to come to terms with her being back on the scene...Frankie left Cat heartbroken a couple of years ago and Cat had just started to move on finally back on the date seen with Sam. Frankie always attracts attention and rebels all the time, she comes across as ruthless and hard but but stripping away this look she is very vulnerable and finds it hard to deal with situations easily. Frankie isn't a fully satisfied lesbian she often changes to men simply for sexual pleasures but only ever falls in love with women. Having sex with strangers was a regular thing for Frankie she used sex as a tool to forget about her hard and challenging life. Her parents died when she was young, she was raised by her Aunt and Uncle but they where never close just simply raised her because they made a promise to look after her. Cat- A very petite and intriguing women, jet black hair, not a typical lesbian look or style, and a major control freak, who analyses everyone and everything her mind is never at rest. Cat is always open to her closest friends but afraid of getting hurt, Her and Frankie fell in love at a young age after stepping over the friendship barrier. A wild relationship that just didn't work out due to Frankie's antics and ways it didn't last long, Frankie didn't even want to commit too it! She became a coward and waltzed off to New York! However Cat decided to get back into dating and met Sam... Sam- A masculine character, very domineering she works in the Police force as a detective sergeant, Sam is Cat's first date since Frankie, she is insightful, humerus and kind hearted, she speaks the truth and never bottles things up inside. She doesn't like to be messed around in relationships and likes her other half to be honest and trustworthy! relationships with Sam can often be intense as Cat finds out. Cat and Sam build a strong relationship as the episodes go on but the sooner Frankie appears things start to go wrong and cracks start to show! Cat and Sam a very strong and loving couple, their feelings start to grow stronger as the episodes go on but things go sour when Frankie appears back on the scene, Cat starts lying to Sam about Frankie but Sam is intelligent and puts the pieces together eventually at the end of the series Sam decides to confront Frankie fed up the lying and messing around behind her back and persuades her to leave Glasgow for good and vanish to America. Tess- A young lesbian, full of energy and wears her heart on her sleeve, she has a best friend called Ed who is also Cat's brother, the group are all very close especially Cat and Tess who lie together during the series, they speak openly to each other about their feelings for people and are extremely close. In the first series Tess has a run in with her ex-grilfriend, but things start to get better for her when she meets a beautiful young women however is she straight? Tess never thinks before she speaks and makes a fool of herself on live tv, she also asks her new girlfriend to go public about her sexuality but Louise isn't ready to do that just yet especially being a tv presenter things wouldn't be easy for her. She unfortunately attracts the wrong type of women she buries her feelings under anger and sarcasm. She has never had much luck with women and unfortunately it doesn't really change to much for her in the series.If anything things get harder for her simply because her best friend Ed tells Tess how much he loves her in a relationships way, she finds it difficult and hides away from her friends. Ed- Cat's brother and Best friend to Tess he is really close to his sister and loves her to pieces, a very gentle and loving guy, he doesn't really have a love life, he thinks its because he isn't manly enough. He loves Tess but she is oblivious and doesn't realise simply thinking they are close friends and nothing more, Tess relies on Ed and he does the same. They tell each other almost everything and trust one another. Jay- Cat's friend since Uni and they now work together in an architect firm, he is particularly close to Frankie, a player and womaniser Jay had a girlfriend called Becky he was always faithful to her unfortunately for Becky he can't handle temptation and sleeps with girls for the enjoyment, he also had a sexual encounter with Frankie which made things slightly awkward. Lou- A beautiful women, stunning in fact and always thinks she is straight however after meeting Tess it became clear to Louise that she can't of been straight, her first sexual encounter with Tess was indifferent but very intimate. However Lou didn't want to admit to the public that she was a Lesbian. However she also had a devilish side to her, often abrupt and rude and didn't always care about other people's feelings. Her relationship with Tess brings out the best and worst in her. Sadie- A very gorgeous women, sexy and new she was, intimidating and confident, she hooked up with Frankie for fun and to have sex neither of them really wanted a relationship or commitment. Betrayal, lies, sex, trust, friendships are all involved in Lip Serice, a truly entertaining tv drama for many people out their, it dives into the lives of lesbians and how many of them live, all people are different and we shouldn't judge watching a programme like this makes you realise know one should be judged. It tests friendships and people commitments. One heck of a roller coaster ride for the girls and men! All the characters are fantastic and so different. Its fantastic and heart felt I shed a few tears occasionally...most certainly worth watching! Read the complete review |
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Lost - Season 6 (DVD)
by helen190390 Lost Season 6 is the last series of the programme. The ending has been left at no return so it couldn't come back or be put in the cinema as an extra add on special. Lost series 6 came to air on TV in 2010. Main Characters: ----------------------------- Jack Shepard- Jack in the main character as he has ... taken on "leader" of the crash victims of flight 815. He is a spinal surgeon who had helped most of the other characters throughout the programme, whether it be advice or medical attention. Kate Austen- Aboard flight 815 she was being taken back to America in handcuffs for a murder she claims to not have done. Kate is the second main character who is stuck in a love triangle with both Jack and Sawyer. James 'Sawyer' Ford- Before the crash, Sawyer was a con man looking for a man called Anthony Cooper. He had stolen his parents money which ended in Sawyer witnessing his father killing himself and his mother. Sawyer went on to follow on Anthony's footsteps and became a conman too, stealing money from married women. Sun and Jin Kwon- Korean married couple who seem to be having marriage problems but throughout the programme become closer. Sun gets pregnant on the island which leads to a lot of complications for them. John Locke- Boarded flight 815 with no function of his legs and in a wheelchair and when crashing on the Island, his legs were fixed and was walking again after the feeling in his legs came back. He kept it secret from the other passengers as he had a feeling fate bought his to the Island. John Locke is all about his destiny and wonders alone in certain parts of the programme. Hugo 'Hurley' Reyes- Lottery winner who percieved his fortune brings him bad luck. Throughout the series and lack of food on the island, it was funny to see him never lose weight, even with the miles and miles of walking they had done in the years they had been stuck on the island! Other main characters: Claire, Charlie, Ben, Desmond, Michael and Walt, Richard and Aaron. Other characters: Juliet, Daniel, Frank, Miles, Charlotte, Rose, Bernard,Libby, Anna Lucia, Mr Eko, Boone, Shannon, Penny and Charles Widmore. Quick catch up of the previous series: ----------------------------------------​------- Flight 815 from Sydney to Los Angeles breaks into two mid air and crashes into water on the Island. When they come to shore and we finally see who survived and who died, these people become to main characters bar lots of extras which you don't often hear from. They soon realise this Island isn't normal when they have no signal, no way of contact and as the plane had been lost on radar, no-one knew where they were. Strange things happen, people deal with their pasts, struggle to cope on the island, make friendships, make enemies, steal, lie, decieve and come across the unexplainable. Throughout the other 5 series we see main characters die, get hurt, get kidnapped by "the others" who already reside on the Island along with a few who are all alone stuck on the Island. The french woman Danielle who washed up on a boat 16 years before the 815 passengers arrived there and Desmond who was part of the Dharma initiative (a group of workers living on the Island but where wiped out by the evil Ben Linus who turned to the others. After failed attempts of leaving the Island with rafts, signals, submarines and boats, they realise they aren't able to leave due to the island not showing up on any maps, radars or co-ordinates. The passengers come across a radio messagefrom Danielle where the discover how long the message has been playing for on a loop. They then notice they cannot send their own message without finding Danielle to get to the place she recorded her message to stop that and make a new. After a freighter is spotted and a helicopter dropping off some people for a "rescue mission" they use their radios to make contact with the freighter to come and save them. Locke thinks they aren't here to save them but to kill them, which soon becomes clear when they are bombarded with other people from the freighter who are looking for Ben Linus. Some characters manage to escape from the island on the helicopter but a pregnant Sun has to leave Jin behind as the freighter has a large bomb on board. The escapees are Jack, Sun, Kate, Hurley, Sayid and Baby Aaron. There is a time shift on the Island when Ben moves the Island getting it stuck moving through time until finally (after it killing Charlotte) the time sticks and they are stuck in the 1970's with the rest of the cast becoming a part of the Dharma initiative. The Oceanic six who left the island manage to get back on the island after realising the needed to get back to save the rest. Locke had managed to also escape after moving the island again to fix it back into the 1970s. At the end of Series 5, they have realised they can change the past by stopping the Dharma initiative from drilling into to ground and hitting a pocket of electromagnetism. This was the cause of the plane crash when Desmond forgot to do his part of his dhama assignment. He had to press a button every 108 minutes which would stop the electromagnetism from getting out. When he didn't get there in time, it was released and caused the plane to crash as it was sucked into the islands magnet. Series 6: --------------------------------------- If you haven't watched Lost before, then don't buy this DVD set until you've watched the previous series or this one will make no sense to you whatsoever! Series 6 is my favourite series of them all. It's the most confusing series but once i'd watched it a few times i finally understood things i didn't previously. A lot of the media and spectators were writing that the ending was too confusing and ended without explanations. In this series we are greeted by the bomb site after Jack threw it into the drill where Juliet was dragged into it by the metalic object which flew into it. Sawyer is angry that Jack has killed her when they hear her calling out. The time has shifted back to normal and the need to dig her out. She dies when Sawyer reaches her and comes to surface holding a lifeless Juliet telling Jack he is going to kill him for what he has done. We then skip to the flight 815 when it is in flight and it never crashes! we see the island at the bottom of the ocean which stirs a lot of mixed feelings from media and viewers. Locke's dead body which they bought back with them when the oceanic six fly back to the island, is laying in the box yet we see another Locke walking around live and kicking. We soon find out he is in fact the mysterious Jacob's (the leader of the island) brother who turned evil and is infact the black smoke we see in previous episodes throughout the programme. Sayid lay shot by one of the Dharma initiative workers and Jacob (who has just been killed by Ben) turns to Hurley to tell him to take Sayid to the temple which is at the heart of the island. This is the first time we have seen the temple and are greeted by some of the passengers who were kidnapped back in season 1. The temple is a safe place from the black smoke and after attempting to save Sayid, he lay dead in the temple only to awaken a few hours later. The leader of the temple Dogen sees this and tries to get Jack to poison Sayid as he had woken with a darkness inside of him which will end badly for everyone. They tell the others that Claire also had been effected by the darkness and is now roaming the island alone after she dissapeared one night leaving Aaron to be cared for by Kate when they escape from the island. We are constantly thrown from the present to a different life of the characters where the crash never happened. At the end of the series we see why we were being shown this parallel world of the crash but I don't want to give it all away or you'll see no point to watching! In the episode the lighthouse, we see Jack and Hurley go to the top where a mirror with co-ordinates sit. When they turned it to one which read "Jack Shepard" they could see his house in the mirror. Getting angry, Jack smashed it and they later find out Jacob had reasons for watching them all through their lives. In the "parallel world" we see that Jack and Juliet had a son together and he is a teenager. Kate and Claire end up becoming friends through Kate holding a gun to the taxi drivers head of the taxi Claire had hailed forcing him to drive. Claire was on her way to give Aaron up for adoption and Hugo's fortune brought him good luck rather than bad. We find out Daniel and Penny are siblings and Charles their father and Eloise is their mother. In some strange way they all connect with either other in some way or another. At the end Jacob comes to visit again where they can all see him. Jacob tells the others they are all candidates to take on the leader position once Jacob died. He picked them all out as he knew they all had something in common. They were all alone in the world and each choice they made all ended in the same place, Flight 815. Jack nominated himself to take on the job where Jacob took him down to the centre of the island which was a light which if it went out, the island would die and the black smoke would be able to escape himself. Without giving it all away, i will leave the review at that and hope you enjoy it as much I did! To buy the series online it is around £10-15 but if you purchase all 6 series as a box set, it is £62.95 on Zavvi, meaning each series is £10.29. I purchased 4 series for around £25-40 each and bought series 5 and 6 for £10 each in the January sales with some christmas vouchers. Thanks for reading my review! Read the complete review |
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The Larry Sanders Show (DVD)
by alexandjef This a review of two very different sides. Firstly its an amazing show. Innovative, hilarious and totally landmark. The influence this show had is seen in comedy around the world, and will be seen for years to come. Some shows make the influence this show had obvious with clear nods to the style of comedy it affirmed, and some shows were ... simply created in the environment Larry Sanders cultivated - their influence being much more in the background, but ever present. Garry Shandling is the mastermind both on and off screen. He is both cast in the lead role, heads up the writing and it generally feels like his show. The autocratic presence he has is welcome, he makes it what it is. The premise is a little confusing - he plays a character who feels very real - a late night talk-show host, on a fictional talk show. Every effort is made to make the talk-show and Larry seem real. The show has actual music guests from real life, real life celebrities and if you didn't know otherwise at times you would find it difficult to tell the difference between this and Conan. Garry Shandling has even worked as a late night talk show host, and written a book from the perspective of one - even more confusing when you see its not real. The show is fact fictional, the guests simply playing themselves and the real action is what goes on off screen. The Larry Sanders show is not a throwaway comedy about the tensions of behind the scenes of a talk-show, although it has that. Its much more than that. Its about the workplace, the nuance of everyday life and its about character. There is a lot of humor surrounding tension between workers, pressure from the network and the constant fear that the jobs of the staff are always on the line due to the nature of the business. This only scratches the surface of what makes this show. A good place to start off in describing what makes this show are the central characters. The three main charachters, and I'm defining them as main on their impact on the show not just screen time are Hank (Jeffery Tambor) Artie (Rip Torn) and Larry (Garry Shandling) Hank is Larrys co-host, college and friend, and Larry is Hanks boss. The relationship is very much like that, its not a two way thing at all. And Artie is Larrys boss, working for the network hosting the show. Each charachter brings something great to the show, but its how they work together when comedy magic is made. All three fight their own little corners to great comedy effect, and the supporting cast bounce off this too. The supporting cast are great as the serve to pad out the jokes when needed, but never seem too far in the back ground - helping drive the story and deliver the jokes. This show ran for six years bang in the middle of the 90s, with the celebrity and music guest confirming this, but its comedy styling leaves you confused. A show almost 20 years old can still feel this fresh and innovative. The jokes have not ages, where some of the reference have (and where some of the supporting cast absolutely have - Jeremy Piven...) Its timing was essential for a lot of reasons. The Talk Show format in the US was big business and a show lampooning it was a great opportunity. But more importantly, US comedy needed its creditably reassuring. In the UK, American sitcoms got a bad name in the early 00s. The clogged up daytime TV, the clogged up almost all of Channel 4 weekend programming and UK views were boredom with lifeless actors shouting wafer thing jokes at us under the pretense it was comedy. However, not all US comedy is like this, just the one that get aired at peak times in the UK. The good stuff either gets aired at hours when no one is watching, or never gets aired and only makes itself known upon it arrival on DVD. The Larry Sanders show was both of these. The BBC and ITV4 both aired this at unusual times and no one really watched - its name getting most of the attention when in post Office dust Ricky Gervais stated how much of an influence Larry Sanders had on him and made a documentary (a VERY awkward one) with Gary Shandling. So, it wasn't really until the DVD of The Larry Sanders Show made there way to the UK, could UK audiences really see what the fuss was about - and help dispel the myths Friends was helping create. Unfortunately, this isn't really one of those DVD. Its is in part - as it gives you a taste of what to expect, but you will struggle to see what the fuss is about with only 7 episodes, despite them being billed as 'the best of'. To my mind, the who series is a best off. The seemed to have actually picked the episodes with the biggest guest starts (Robin Williams, Courtney Cox etc). Its such a frustrating DVD, you need to see story arcs to get the picture -its not quite as bad as 'The Best Of Lost', but its still quite frustrating. I would say watching these episodes as stand alone episodes you are only really going to get about 50% of the fun out of them than you should. To make matters worse, this DVD had hardly any extras and the transfer quality of the picture is poor (its much better on later DVDs), and the packaging is very standard. Its got very much a budget release feel to it. It goes without saying, don't bother with this. You could argue it serves as a introduction to the show at a good price, but there are other collections out there at good prices with way more episodes and extras (Not just the best...being the big one). The entire collection is available, it not cheap but is worth it if you are a serious comedy fan looking to make sure you comedy collection has one of the most important series of ll time. This DVD is cheap, but will not do much for the serious comedy fan, and hardly anything for a causal viewer. Read the complete review |
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