Product Description Life can really throw you curves — especially in this breakthrough Lifetime TV comedy! After beautiful-but-vapid model wannabe Deb (Brooke D’Orsay) has a fatal car accident, she finds herself in the body of the recently deceased Jane Bingum (Brooke Elliott), a brilliant plus-size attorney. By a twist of fate and a bolt of divine intervention, Deb can no longer rely on her fabulous looks to pull her through. Now, the new Jane must confront the challenges of her adventurous new life, love, and career — as well as her curvier frame — in the ultimate showdown of brains and beauty. Featuring a host of celebrity guest stars including Kathy Najimy, Delta Burke, Rosie O’Donnell, Paula Abdul, Liza Minelli and Tim Gunn. .com The winning and winsome Lifetime Television series Drop Dead Diva takes a great concept and then lets its terrific writers and actors run with it. Drop Dead Diva is based on a body-soul switcheroo that happens when a vapid model, Deb (Brooke D'Orsay), dies in a sudden car accident and comes back--accidentally--in the body of an overweight, overachieving attorney named Jane (the absolutely stellar Brooke Elliott). Elliott makes Deb-in-Jane's body a hilarious contradiction and compelling heroine, with Deb's and Jane's flaws combined into one opinionated, extremely entitled package. Drop Dead Diva is reminiscent of classic "switched" films like All of Me and Freaky Friday, with a little of The Truth About Cats and Dogs mixed in. Yet it is easily sustained as a TV series by the deft writing and excellent acting by Elliott, as well as the ensemble cast that includes Margaret Cho (never better), Jackson Hurst, April Bowlby, and Josh Stamberg. The show's setting in a law office ensures no shortage of great situations for comedy, drama, and pathos, yet the acting, writing, and direction are so light and assured that Drop Dead Diva really blazes its own trail. Elliott is a wonder, managing to capture shallow ("I have never been more than a size 2 and I don't intend to start now," says the newly revived, and horrified, Jane/Deb as her first words after recovering from what appeared to be a fatal gunshot wound) and quietly competent. (Happily, Jane retains her brilliant legal mind as well as her body; Deb contributes only her self-involved personality.) Drop Dead Diva easily could veer into preachiness or predictability yet snappily avoids both pitfalls, with sharply drawn and -acted characters that viewers want to follow over the story arcs. And Elliott is a skyrocket of a star, hilarious, heartbreaking, and believable, both as the meek, too-smart-for-her-own-good Jane and the Queen of Everything Deb. No wonder Drop Dead Diva is one of the Lifetime network's biggest breakout successes. The set includes all 13 episodes plus great extras for real fans, including deleted scenes, Ally McBeal-esque "dreamisodes," a making-of feature, and more. Long live the Diva! --A.T. Hurley Stills from Drop Dead Diva: The Complete First Season (Click for larger image)
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Movie
Series, 1,2,and 3 worth watching.
S**T
Love
Love Drop Dead Diva. Fun to watch with my granddaughters.
D**Y
Series
I love this series. I bought every season. They are a light funny show that is just clean entertainment.
H**N
Excellent Show
This is a well acted (especially Brooke) & written show. Highly recommend. It's both funny & serious.
S**N
LOVE THIS SHOW
Found this show by accident and now I can't get enough of it. Going to be said when I get through all seasons. I'll just have to re-watch them.
P**A
Well acted, great writing and wonderful characters.
The casting is excellent as is the writing. The characters are ones familiar in most offices even if a bit exaggerated. It is a very human show with cruelty, sarcasm, laughter and heartbreak.
S**4
Love it
Creative story and talented actors.
G**E
Love this program
Amazon least expensive of all ways you can orde
W**D
Great DVD.
I am very pleased with the Drop Dead Diva DVD it was a very good Price and perfect condition.
B**E
Niedlich gemachte, leichte, witzige Unterhaltung
Body-Switch-Komödien sind alles andere als neu und ich war äußerst skeptisch, zumal es hier um ein blondes Model geht, das in den Körper einer molligen Rechtsanwältin springt. Da liegen Dicken- und Blonden-Klischees natürlich sehr nahe. Auch die zickige weibliche Konkurrentin in der Kanzlei darf nicht fehlen. Jedoch wurde ich positiv überrascht. Die Charaktere, die in den Grundzügen schon klischeehaft angelegt sind, durchbrechen ihre Rolle immer wieder und überraschen durch Charakterzüge oder Handlungen, die nicht ins Klischeebild passen. Die Charaktere finde ich daher sehr sympathisch. Man gewinnt sie schnell lieb - selbst die, die keine direkten Sympathieträger sind wie Kim, die Kollegin in der Kanzlei.Im Zentrum stehen auch meistens die kuriosen Gerichtsfälle, die dann immer einen Berührungspunkt mit dem aktuellen Lebensthema der Hauptfigur haben. Also ein wenig wie Allie McBeal gemischt mit einer Body-Switch-Komödie. Ich weiß noch nicht, wie das Konzept über sechs Staffeln tragen soll, aber die erste gefällt mir sehr gut. Eben einfach leichte Unterhaltung mit etwas Kitschfaktor, bei der einem warm ums Herz wird. Feel-Good-TV.
H**E
Can't put it down!
I bought the first season of this show, not knowing anything about it and never having seen an episode, but I'm addicted! You know how in most series the first season isn't always the best because it takes some warming up? Not this show, it's amazing from the start. Already addicted, and something ELSE I loved, it didn't arrive on time, it came EARLY!! Who doesn't love that!? The packaging was awesome and I love the layout for the discs.So I encourage you to get it!!
L**N
Very Good Series !
Very good series. Good quality DVD. good price shipped fast.
L**A
Ugly Betty senza grinta
Una serie che chiaramente si ispira al successo e alle tematiche affrontate in Ugly Betty ma lo fa senza neanche l'ombra della grinta e ironia di quest'ultima.Personaggi inutili e buoni sentimenti gratuiti.
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