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Release Date: 27 March, 2001 Retail Price: $39.95 OUR Price: $35.96 You SAVE: $3.99! Cast: |
Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Second Season Reviews
Excellent Stuff
These six episodes are best described as great, great, great, great, great, and so-so. The humor is excellent. Hugh Laurie is very much fun to watch. And they hold up well under repeated viewing.
It's hard to pick a favorite, but the one bad one is "Jeeves the Match-Maker". It is not put together well, and Bingo and Tuppy are perhaps Bertie's least likable chums. Still, it gives us some vintage Hugh Laurie moments.
"Jeeves Saves the Cow Creamer" is excellent ... very much fun from beginninmg to end. "Jeeves in the Country" is great too, and it has an excellent ending (with Bertie getting slugged). "Pearls Mean Tears" is, I think, my favorite. The ending, with Biffie disrupting the theater show, puts it a tad over the others (for me). "A Plan for Gussie", the follow-up to "Jeeves Saves the Cow Creamer" is a continuation that maintains the high level of comedy of its predecessor. And "Kidnapped" (these are the titles as I know them ... I've seen them under different names however) is an excellent follow-up to "Jeeves in the Country", with Bertie forced to sing "Lady of Spain" in a very funny bit.
But, my impression is that Season 2 is by far the best of the 4 seasons (though I haven't seen them all). It certainly is the one getting the most attention as far as sellers are concerned. There are a lot of good laughs in it ... and, if nothing else, you are forced to pull out the dictionary and learn a few new words.
Not absolutely faithful to the books, but stronger for it
This series is a brilliant adaption of the Jeeves stories of P.G. Wodehouse. A single episode of Jeeves & Wooster amalgamates several short stories into one longer story. The humor in Wodehouse's stories was focussed on word-play, while in the TV productions the humor is often physical. I think they were wise to go this direction, because a visual adaptions are never completely faithful to the original books. Instead of trying to be completely faithful to the written stories, they went with the strength of their medium and the results are brilliant. One reviewer commented that the second series is not quite as funny as the first. I'm not so sure about that. The second series contains some absolutely essential lines. "Its the bally ballyness of it all that makes it all so bally bally." Or this little exchange: Wooster,"Do you know what I look for in music, Jeeves." Jeeves, "I have often wondered, sir." How about this one: Wooster, "We Woosters have soldiered on with worse things than numb lips." Jeeves, "Indeed, sir." One of my favorite scenes is the one in which Jeeves, who has impeccable taste, has to leave the room and sit down when he sees someone wearing a tie with "little horseshoes on it". "Sometimes one can't just shrug these things off," is his comment. About the sets and scenery. I have tried to find anachronisms (such as power lines, etc.) but have been unable to. A brilliant adaption of brilliant stories, superb acting, gorgeous settings.
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