She Spies
She Spies
| 20 July 2002 (USA)
SEASON & EPISODES
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    xdya57

    I wonder if the director has ever tried to beat someone up in high-heels, no that this was the most unrealistic part of the show. However it's a great fun and really worth watching. You would think that the usual Charlie's angels story of three girls fighting against the bad guys is just too boring to come up with something new, but clearly this show managed it. The action scenes are quite exciting and a lot of coolly told jokes entertain you from the very first minute. No complaints of the plot either, the writers did a really good job and invented some quite interesting frame stories. All in all this show is a real fun, one of my favourite series, I can just recommend it to everyone.

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    gridoon2018

    Warning: This comment is based only on the first season of the show, which is the only season available on DVD so far."She Spies" is a fun show to watch, but if you've seen one episode, you've pretty much seen them all. In the age of "Alias" and "24", the mission-of-the-week format seems anachronistic. While the three leads are beautiful, in great shape and actually believable as fighters, the action scenes are brief (they occupy no more than 2 or 3 minutes out of each episode's 43), and often shot in too-tight close-ups which suggest extensive stunt doubling. Of course the emphasis is more on comedy than action; yes the show has a self-aware sense of humor, yes it pokes fun at itself, yes it has some clever wordplay and yes it is sometimes funny, but after a while none of that surprises you anymore, and frankly sometimes the excess of talk begins to get tiresome. My favorite episode is "The Replacement", thanks to a super-sexy Brooke Burns who brings all the attitude that the rest of the show lacks. **1/2 out of 4 for the first season as a whole.

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    curtis martin

    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.

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    DrAmanda

    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.

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