Bardlerx
Strictly average movie
Sexylocher
Masterful Movie
Freaktana
A Major Disappointment
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
nancyross
I love this show. I bought the first season on DVD and just watched it again and the full second season elsewhere.Debra Messing as Stacey looks amazing on this show; she is beautiful. Much better than as Grace. And Thomas Haden Church is hilarious as Ned.The second season is very different. The first season focuses on Ned and Stacey and their relationship. This is much more diluted in the second season. The shows are good in a different way; you see more of Amanda and Eric and Ned is different. You don't see the warmth that comes across in the first season in the Ned and Stacey relationship.And, honestly, why change the look of three of the main characters? Ned's hair is now long (which I hate for this show.) And Stacey's hair and makeup are both toned down and not as vivid. Amanda's hair also changed color from red to brown with highlights, which again, seemed boring. And a muffin shop?? It seems unrealistic and too much of a change for Amanda.** spoiler ** spoiler ** spoiler ** And I really, really hated the way it ended. It was so depressing and why end a funny show in such a way? Why destroy Ned on every possible level? And Stacey's final response was lacking.But doesn't he still own that building? And what about all the floors on top of the muffin shop? Don't they generate income?
Catherine_Grace_Zeh
"NED AND STACEY," in my opinion, is an absolute FOX classic! I haven't seen every episode, but I still enjoyed it. It's hard to say which episode was my favorite. However, I think it was always funny when a mishap occurred. I always laughed at that. Despite the fact that it was a short-lived series, it would have been nice if all the main characters had stayed with the show throughout its entire run. It seems that no one stays with a show throughout its entire run. Everyone always gave a good performance, the production design was spectacular, the costumes were well-designed, and the writing was always very strong. In conclusion, I hope someone brings it back on the air for fans of the show to see.
guyfromjerzee
I am insanely critical of comedies (as you'd find out if you browsed through my movie reviews) and I tend to despise sitcoms in general, but "Ned and Stacey" was one of those sitcoms I actually embraced. I recall enjoying the show when I was a teenager, so I figured it was worth purchasing the first season on DVD. Well, it was a delightful trip down memory lane. I still find the show very funny, and it makes me feel even more proud that Thomas Haden Church is now a household name. Way, way before "Sideways" came out, there was "Ned and Stacey." Church's impeccable comic timing definitely contributes to the magnitude of the show. I didn't feel he was annoying or over-the-top, like some of the other IMDb users. Trust me, I have a low tolerance for obnoxious comic actors. But Church has a unique comic ability that is comparable to few others. Debra Messing was great on the show as well. I'm not a "Will and Grace" fan, and thought the show was completely overrated. I wasn't impressed by Messing on that show, but I think that was mainly because she was working with less-than-satisfactory material. When she did "N & S," she hadn't had any sitcom experience. But her delivery and timing of each joke was solid. Not to mention the chemistry between her and Church was solid. To top it all off, the show was blessed with a fine supporting cast. Nadia Dajani and Greg Germann rounded out the superb cast. The dynamic between Church and Germann is hilarious, with Church being the loudmouth and Germann being the soft-spoken pushover. No one plays a soft-spoken pushover better than Germann. And Dajani was pitch-perfect at playing a pure cynic who's always prepared with a smart-aleck remark. My only mild criticism of the show was the segments during the closing credits. I've never been a fan of movies or TV shows playing outtakes over the credits. It's fun watching them in Jackie Chan flicks, because we find out the difficulty it takes for him to perform his elaborate stunts. But in other cases...what's the friggin' use? When the show didn't play outtakes over the credits, it played alternate scenes where ridiculous things would happen, like Dajani's character being poisoned by Ned by him slipping arsenic into her drink. Again....what's the use? But that's about the only bad things I can say about "Ned and Stacey." At the heart of the show is a brilliant premise: Two single people being forced to pretend like they're married, while juggling their individual love lives? Pure brilliance. And for those of you who don't live on the East Coast, the concept of marrying someone to get an apartment in Manhattan is not too far out of whack. It's slightly unfortunate that the show was canceled after its second season, but not too unfortunate. At least the show wasn't too hyped up and didn't run into its tenth season, in which the writers would inevitably run out of ideas and conjure up ridiculous premises for episodes and tack on celebrity cameos, whether they make sense or not. Now that we're in the DVD age, it's not too late to check out this underrated gem. Even if you don't want to cough up the cash for a DVD, you can probably find reruns of it playing on USA or some other basic cable channel.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
The show is really quite funny, but the fact that it very commonly uses graphic violence as a subject of humor is very disturbing, a few scenes, in a commercial, the animated character pulls off his head to use as a basketball, and the scene was very gory... And when an arrow shot right through a main character's stomach, blood spread all over his white shirt... And when an old woman breaks her rib... What morals does that teach? And the show has often contained nudity and implied or shown sex. Anyway... quite a good show... for adults!