Gene Simmons - Family Jewels - Season One
by Adam Reed, Chad Greulach
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Actor: Gene Simmons, Nick Simmons, Shannon Tweed, Sophie Simmons, Tracy TweedDirector: Adam Reed, Chad Greulach
Brand: A&E HOME ENT.
Producer: Adam Reed
Producer: Chad Greulach
Producer: Ben Hatta
Producer: Brian Caldirola
Producer: Colleen Childe
Producer: David Price
DVD: Region Code 0
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 285 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-12-19
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: A&E Home Video
Product features:
- The new real-life A&E family series GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS steps into the home of the legendary, tongue-wagging rocker demon of KISS and Shannon Tweed, former Playmate of the Year, actress, model and mom. Gene and Shannon have been happily UNmarried for 23 years and have no plans to get married anytime soon. And their kids, Nick and Sophie, are surprisingly charming, well-behaved teenagers dea
DVD Reviews of Gene Simmons - Family Jewels - Season One
DVD Review: "It's Good To Be Me"-Gene Simmons
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't think there are much people who don't know KISS or Gene Simmons as most people I ask at least know who you're talking about.With his "Family Jewels" television show,KISS co-founder Gene lets us see what his life is like,we also get to meet his family and we learn just how much Simmons is a workoholic and how money counts for him.This show reminds a lot of the Osbournes show wich aired a few years ago,its was basicly Ozzy and his crazy family,the concept is pretty much the same for Family Jewels but is totaly different.In the Osbournes there was swearing,bipping,the kids were always fighting and at times you couldn't understand Ozzy well,wheras in Family Jewels its much more of a normal family and its organized better overral.Gene always talks about himself as the rock god,while his family are always making fun of him and they are hilarious and the show is captivating,interresting and shows us how Gene's life is,well on that point its the closest we ever got.I need to point out that Gene and his wife,ex-playmate Shanon Tweed are happily unmarried since 20+ years,and Gene true to his reputation(he claims to have slept with 4 600 womens).His two kids Nick and Sophie do great on the show as well,in fact even the dog gets his shining moments!I have to say I don't and never really liked reality t.v but I,just like many others love this show!
You first have to understand that everything in Gene's life is and pretty much always was about money.In fact the primary reason he did this is to get money,god knows he doesn't really need any more but he still does.Yet I knew that when I was watching it and I still tought he managed to give fans and non-fans their money's worth with this show.These 13 episodes turned out to be some of the best television I ever saw and some of the funniest too!Being a KISS fan I was instantly attracted by it but I soon realized that much more people were watching this,even non-KISS fans have been attracted by it.This show is good at something,1)making you laugh and entertain you and 2)make you discover what its like to be Gene Simmons.Gene is always about money and his family makes fun of him for that,calling him a workoholic and laughing at his god status making him look like not much in the end.Gene was never humble,always giving himself extra credit for founding KISS and his family are the only ones who can keep him grounded because of his huge ego.This show probably wouldn't work if it was about Paul Stanley,Ace Frehley or Peter Criss's families as they like their privacy while Gene is the only one of KISS willing to sell his privacy,plus his family really fit well on the small screen and he is a goof,all that makes the show work so well.
Gene takes KISS as not a band but a brand and it always has been like that in the band,making big profits and that is a reason why the band didn't get the respect it deserved.In this show he tries to sell KISS to everyone,trying to make snowboards,his association with Indy Racing and he even tries to make a Gene Simmons's Sexercice video.There is also the episode where he wants to make money with Bull sperm!His daughter Sophie even parodies him saying "Gene Simmons eggs!I have to call Angus!Hey Angus think about it Gene Simmons eggs...".Nick then adds still making fun of Gene "Think about it,my face on a chicken's butt!".That's just to prove you how the guy is addicted to money.This season might be the first but it already feels like a classic as each episodes are great and I watched each a good dozen times on televison and still enjoy watching them.There is an episode where Gene tries to go on a vacation with his family but he can't resist an opportunity to make money.I liked the episode when he has a radio contest to determine who his biggest fan is,Gene is not really thrilled with the choice and it turns out to be pretty funny.In an episode Nick tries to get a gig with his band and his father books him one.It was nice to hear Nick sing.Each episode has a different plot and it makes sense and seems believable,at least not too phony.Im not sure if this is improvised or what but its certainly great!
On this show Gene is not really the rock star,he's mostly the buisness man.I thank Gene for letting us enter his private life and discover more of his personna.The show turned out to be very succesfull on the channel it airs on,A&E quickly gave another contract for another season because of its high ratings and it became one of the most watched show on the network.I just loved the show and this DVD set of the first season and it has some great bonus features like the couch interviews,the bloopers are good,I particularly enjoyed the "Inside The lair" bonus wich took us in Gene's office.Gene's History Of Rock'N'Roll was neat as well.The lost songs is the big surprise and i don't want to spoil it sorry!There are lots of features all listed in the description and the thirteen episodes(its pretty much what each show are allowed for a first season)that accompany them makes this a killer worthy set.The price of the set in most stores is pretty cheap for these kinds of set and I highly recommend them to KISS fans,even if you aren't a fan you will probably like this show as well you don't neccesarily need to be a fan to appreciate it.The highest rating obviously five stars.
DVD Review: A Guilty Pleasure
Summary: 5 Stars
This will surprise anyone who reads this. I am NOT a huge Kiss fan. I own NO Kiss merchandise other than 1 CD. That's it. I like a few of their songs.
I got into watching the series & I enjoy it.
A lot of this you KNOW is just set up for TV.
I like the kids Nick & Sophie. You wish other celebrity kids were like them. Gene & Shannon a job well done with them.
The show is a guilty pleasure. Gene having to put Kiss on every piece of merchandise he can think of. Money, money, money.
Good extras on the DVD package. I just got the 2cd season & there are none there so they put everything on here. That part is bad.
So, if you are NOT a Kiss fan you can enjoy the show. May turn you into 1, you never know.
DVD Review: Fantastic show :-0
Summary: 5 Stars
In full disclosure, I am not a Kiss fan at all (with the exception of two songs I love), but wanted to buy this because through books I've read, know that Gene is meant to be a decent, family-orientated, general all round nice guy (and the show shows that he is). He comes across and a pussycat rather than a rock and roll bad boy (although there are some aspects of that part of his life shown here) and as a great partner to Shannon and a fantastic father to the kids. He's brought them up right and they seem like a genuinely nice family who are respectful, yet still love their fun.
Overall this show is hilarious too. It's fun to be a fly on the wall here. I have a couple of favourite moments from this season; I love when Shannon and Sophie go to Krav Maga lessons and he goes to pick them up, I love when he does a driving test and I love when he and Shannon go on the weekend retreat and he pays someone in the staff to go get him some real food and a tv.
I would have assumed he'd be an arrogant kind of guy for someone of his success, and while he openly admits to how gorgeous he believes himself to be, I found myself really liking him. I love how they've put family video footage in here too and I love his personality and the relationship he has with his family. Even if you aren't a Kiss fan, you should check this out because it's a brilliant reality show that gets you hooked right from the start. It's fun and enjoyable and I love it - hope you will too.
DVD Review: Simmons
Summary: 5 Stars
The family jewles DVD is great. I love Gene and his family is great and funny. I think anyone would love this DVD.DVD Review: Good laugh
Summary: 4 Stars
We enjoy watching Gene Simmons and his family. He is such a rock star on stage but its fun to watch Shannon and his kids bring him down a few notches. And...who doesn't love those big feeted red pajamas!!!
Description of Gene Simmons - Family Jewels - Season One
GENE SIMMONS FAMILY JEWELS is your personal invitation to go home with rock 'n roll superstar Gene Simmons. Enter the extraordinary Simmons household where former KISS front man Gene Simmons and Playmate of the Year Shannon Tweed have raised two charming, well-behaved teenagers, Nick and Sophie. Or is it the other way around? From a surprise birthday party that turns into a surprise wedding, to driving lessons that take a wrong turn for father and son, to horseplay that puts a daughter in hot water, day-to-day family life has never been so outrageously unpredictable--and surprisingly touching. The story of a uniquely American family fully unveiled in the original thirteen episodes from the debut season on DVD. DVD Features: Exclusive interviews with the Simmons family; Cast Biographies; Photo Gallery; Interactive Menu; Scene Selection 8/7/06 Happily Unmarried (#1) 8/7/06 Next Generation Rock Star (#3) 8/14/06 The Demon Lives (#10) 8/14/06 Driving Me Crazy (#2) 8/21/06 Food or Sex? (#6) 8/28/06 Sexercise (#8) 9/11/06 The Un-Anniversary (#12) 9/18/06 Loose Change (#9) 9/25/06 Fan... Tastic (#7) 10/2/06 Horsin' Around (#5) 10/16/06 Gene's Addiction (#4) 10/23/06 Shrinkwraped (#11) 10/30/06 Behind the Makeup (#13)"It's good to be me," says Gene Simmons, and the Kiss bassist-frontman could hardly find a better vehicle for himself than Family Jewels, the first season of which (13 episodes, plus extras) is presented here on two discs. There has rarely been anyone as shamelessly and gleefully skilled at self-promotion as Simmons, who makes P.T. Barnum look like a shrinking violet and pro football player Terrell Owens seem modest. Whether he is glorifying or parodying his Rock God image (the show features both in roughly equal measure), he knows that either way, it's all about him--and it was ever thus for a guy whose success has always depended at least as much, if not more, on image and marketing as on music.
Fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek, and just naughty enough, the 22-minute episodes keep it short and simple, focusing on Simmons' principal preoccupations: his disdain for matrimony (although he and former Playboy playmate Shannon Tweed have been together for decades, they've never married), and, of course, his legendary reputation as a sex machine (the current estimate is 4,600 conquests). Thus we find Gene going to a Hooters opening in Las Vegas; conducting auditions for his latest scam, a video series called "Sexercise"; weekending at a health spa with Tweed, who refuses to sleep with him unless he drops a few pounds; and appearing on a Playboy Channel show with porn stars like Jenna Jameson. while Tweed and/or their two kids (teens Nick and Sophie), who love to goof on Dad, are at home setting fire to his rock star pants or some such shenanigans. The existence of a blooper reel among the bonus material hardly supports the notion that the show is unscripted and spontaneous; Simmons' day with an almost frighteningly obsessive Kiss fan, during which he confides to Tweed that at times the adulation "just becomes too much," provides one of the few "real" moments. Little matter. Despite his bluster, or more likely because of it, Simmons is good-natured, smart, and genuinely likeable; so are his kids, who are kinda snarky (but then, what teenager isn't?) but seem well-adjusted and a lot brighter than Ozzy Osbourne's sullen brood. If there's one obvious omission, it's that so little of Family Jewels has anything to do with music (a ten-minute bonus feature called "Lost Songs" is about it). Then again, those uninterested in rock 'n' rolling all night and partying every day may consider that a major selling point. --Sam Graham
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