Man....man oh man. I'd never heard of this show until it came out on DVD, but it sounded interesting in the reviews and comments I read. It sounded like a goofy Charlie's Angels parody with elements of the old Monkees TV show and Get Smart thrown in. However, I found that I could only make it through the first ten minutes of the second episode. It was just too painfully unfunny. I mean the women could have done the whole series in the nude and I think two episodes would have been my limit. I'm not familiar with the writers credited with this lump, but they give every impression of being old washed up showbiz hacks of the worst kind--I mean their idea of hipness were references to Tricky Dick Nixon and the old Gary Cooper movie "Shane." Did they think that anyone under 45 would get those gags? And even if they did, should the writers have had any reasonable expectation that said gags would actually be funny? (hint: the answer is no).But the dated nature of the humor wasn't even the real killer for me. The main thing that made it so painful was that the show was aiming so desperately and so often to be funny, but kept missing the mark upon each and every attempt. It was like the guy at the party who has no business telling jokes, but compulsively tells them anyway, ad nauseum. You know the kind of guy I mean--he tells jokes because he thinks that being funny will make people like him, so he tells one after the other to anyone who will listen. Trouble is, he got all the jokes out of an old joke book and has no natural sense of humor, so he just parrots out a bunch of dead-on-delivery gags, laughs at them himself because no one else will, and keeps going until his dullness clears the room. That's what this show did to me. Even with hot chicks, it cleared the room with its dullness. Freak. N. PAINFUL.

I recently watched an episode of this show and I must say it was pointless. Ignoring the fact that its a blatant rip off Charlie's Angels and VIP, it still terrible. The `action' isn't that exciting, the plot is laughable and the main problem is that it tries to take itself seriously, unlike VIP. The dialog is sparse and sometimes they go off into these little touching moments that's suppose to build on the story but has nothing to do with anything. It's hard to believe three skinny girls could so effectively beat up endless bad guys. I feel stupid for watching it and I just want to cry.

One of the most grossly misunderstood genres of film and theatre is the SATIRE. This is a great satire. Unfortunately SATIRE rarely works on TV on a week by week basis. Which is probably why this was on at 3am on a Friday night. But it IS funny.

While it's tempting to write this show off as a lame-o Charlie's Angles rip-off, you really shouldn't do that. She Spies is a variation on that theme that actually is better than the original. Three misfit women are pulled out of prison and forced to work for the FBI putting bad guys in jail. What makes this series much better than the original is: 1. The cast acts better, 2. The humor actually works, and 3. You can really sympathize with the women of She Spies more than you could the women of Charlie's Angels. About the only complaint I have about it is that being a syndicated show, it's on at a very inconvenient hour in most markets (many places show it around midnight on Saturday as of this writing.) It's worth checking out.