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Maude - The Complete First Season

Maude - The Complete First Season
by Bill Hobin, Bud Yorkin, Hal Cooper, Robert H. Livingston

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Actor: Adrienne Barbeau, Beatrice Arthur, Bill Macy, Conrad Bain, Rue McClanahan
Director: Bill Hobin, Bud Yorkin, Hal Cooper, Robert H. Livingston
Brand: Sony
Writer: Alan J. Levitt
Writer: Arnold Kane
Writer: Austin Kalish
Writer: Bob Schiller
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 460 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-03-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

DVD Reviews of Maude - The Complete First Season

DVD Review: Jonah & Maude
Summary: 4 Stars

Nobody can keep a straight face like the late Bea Arthur! She paid her dues, had a great husband and two handsome sons. Ms. Arthur's comedic abilities are rare and punctual by design. I look forward to subsequent seasons of Maude in the near future.

DVD Review: Dated, falls flat
Summary: 3 Stars

Wow! Some shows do not age well.
When this was filmed before a live audience using videotape, it was considered a cutting edge approach to sit-coms. Unfortunately, video from 1972 looks primitive today. I can imagine how it will look in HD when everything goes digital.
1) Everyone looks awful. Rue Mclanahan actually appears older here than she did on Golden Girls. Bea Arthur looks bloated with badly applied make-up. Bill Macy, the guy who play's Maude's husband, and Maude's daughter Adrienne Barbeau all look ugly.
2) The comedy is stridently leftist and shrill. The daughter plays the feminist as a pompous, self-righteous, preachy, in-your-face witch. That might work in New York - which is still full of these type of women - but she would be frozen out in the rest of the country. No wonder the character is a divorced single mom; what man could stand to put up with her?
3) This is forty years old and it shows. In the episode, "Maude's dilemna," Maude is pregnant and drinking - get this - double martinis. Bill Macy chokes on a piece of chicken and the doctor, instead of doing the Heimlich Maneuver (which no one knew about yet - the first article about it appeared in a medical journal in 1974 - two years after Maude debuted), shoves bread down his throat in order to force a stuck chicken bone down his throat! Scary stuff.
4) Bea Arthur. This is the real shocker. Anyone remembering Arthur as a great comedienne will be surprised to see that her character is nothing but a set of a dozen different shticks that she repeats endlessly. The deadpan stare, the explosive outrage with shouting, the hurled epithet - it's a small bag of tricks - and an irritating one after the initial surprise of seeing such an unpleasant woman on tv. Why would Bill Macy's character (or any man for that matter) marry this harridan? And Maude was married four times? Where did she find so many masochistic men? In an S and M club? If a woman married a man like Maude, we would tell her that she had to have low self-esteem in order to put up with such a troll. I guess if a man marries a horrible woman like Maude it's supposed to mean that the man is a feminist? No, it means that he is an idiot or kitty whipped.
Edgy at the time, this is now nothing but a time capsule and contains characters that now seem silly or intolerable. When a show strives to be topical, it takes the risk of eventually seeming dated and silly. Maude seems dated and silly.

DVD Review: RELEASE SEASON 2!
Summary: 5 Stars

I must say that the release of season 1 was VERY satisfying. Each episode is fantastic.
Now, Sony must release SEASON 2!
Season 1 of Maude has a better sales rank than some of the Golden Girls seasons. There's your proof, SONY! MILLIONS of people want SEASON 2!
RELEASE SEASON 2!

DVD Review: CAN ANY BODY HELP ME
Summary: 4 Stars

CAN ANY ONE HELP ME I AM VERY INTERESTED IN THIS SHOW AND WANT'ED TO KNOW WHAT KIND OF DVD CASE IT HAS IF ANY ONE COULD PLEASE LET ME KNOW IT WOULD REALLY BE NICE FOR ANY ONE WHO REPLY'S BACK I WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.

DVD Review: awesome series! why just 1 season!!!!?
Summary: 5 Stars

i cant remember laughing at much as i did watching this dvd its so funny and clever . it hasnt aged one bit and its even fresher today than it was then. so why on earth they stopped at season 1??? i really dont understand
its benn 2 YEARS and not a single hint that `its coming
i widh it would happen

Description of Maude - The Complete First Season

Emmy Award-winner Beatrice Arthur stars in this beloved, groundbreaking sitcom created by Norman Lear. Maude was first introduced as Edith Bunker's outspoken, liberal cousin on the classic TV show "All in the Family." Her spinoff, set in Tuckahoe, New York, focuses on Maude's daily adventures at home with fourth husband Walter (Bill Macy), divorced daughter Carol (Adrienne Barbeau), and Carol's son Phillip. Joining in on the fun is housekeeper Florida (Esther Rolle, TV's Good Times), and conservative next-door neighbor Arthur (Conrad Bain, TV's "Diff'rent Strokes"). Guest stars include Rue McClanahan (TV's "The Golden Girls"), John Amos (TV's "Good Times"), and Tom Bosley (TV's "Happy Days"). Blessed with some of the best TV comedy writing ever, along with controversial plotlines, the show is just as hilarious and surprising today as it was when it debuted in the top ten in the early 1970s. Full of memorable one-liners, including her famous warning "God'll get you for that, Walter!"

Lest anyone doubt that Maude was part of the great second golden age of TV sitcoms in the mid-'70s, the first season of the show will lay those doubts to rest. The inimitable Bea Arthur, who won an Emmy for the role, is the uber-feminist-realist at the center of a loving, slightly dysfunctional family in the Norman Lear series. Arthur, and Maude, are fearless in confronting issues of the day, from abortion and penalties for marijuana possession to the real heartbreak post-divorce. The supporting cast is first-rate, too, including Adrienne Barbeau as Maude's daughter, Carol, who's come home to nest after a traumatic divorce; Bill Macy as Maude's beleaguered fourth husband, Walter; and the beloved, fearless Esther Rolle as housekeeper Florida Evans. Despite the roiling issues and confrontation s in each episode, nothing rattles Maude, who became something of a role model for women trying to navigate through turbulent changing times. Sample dialogue: Maude: "When he says wife, he means possession." Walter: "So what, Maude? You told me a hundred times you want to be possessed." Maude: "Walter Findlay, I never said that standing up and you know it." Maude speaks her mind in all 20 episodes--and if you don't like it, God'll get you for that. --A.T. Hurley

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