The New Adventures Of The Old Christine – The
Complete Third Season (2008/Warner
DVD on-line exclusive)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: D Episodes: C+
PLEASE NOTE: This DVD set can only be ordered
from The WB Shop at the link below.
In an interesting
turn in the home video market, Warner Bros. has decided to take their hit
sitcom The New Adventures Of The Old
Christine and issue The Complete
Third Season set as a website exclusive.
The Julia Louis-Dreyfus show is a hit and she is rightly a primary
reason for this, which I cannot say about most sitcoms since the 1980s. As well, she is funnier than most actors to
lead one since that time. Those
unfamiliar with the show can look at our coverage of the previous seasons:
One
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/6446/The+New+Adventures+Of+The+Old
Two
http://www.fulvuedrive-in.com/review/7729/The+New+Adventures+Of+The+Old+C
Though I
was not as happy wit the second season as the first, this third season is
holding steady and might just be a bit funnier, offering 10 half-hour that pick
up with our lead falling for someone she almost got fired (Blair Underwood) in
a funny twist in the overall storyline, but I don’t want to say anything else
that might be a spoiler. The other thing
is that Louis-Dreyfus has grown more into the role and that might not have been
the case at first, yet she has the energy like the best comediennes of the past
(Lucille Ball, Mary Tyler Moore, Tracy Ullman, Marlo Thomas) to make this work
and the show is not bad. I just wish it
could find the next level and get wilder, plus a season should be more than ten
shows, but that’s just me.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image has some softness that was to be expected
from these custom DVD-Rs, but they have fine color and are only very narrowly
different than the first two outright DVD releases. I was not happy with the Dolby Digital 5.1 mixes
on the first two sets and think it was a very smart move to have the episodes
in much more balanced Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo.
The combination is as good as the previous releases, so if you are a
fan, you will not be disappointed.
However,
there are no extras.
You can
order this set exclusively from the WB Shop on-line at:
http://bit.ly/WBS_Christine3
- Nicholas Sheffo
