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Pulling: The Complete First Season

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This comedy is hilarious. Don't take my word for it. Pulling Seasons 1 and 2 were nominated for BAFTA Awards. The writing is killer, and the acting is fantastic.

It may not have the high (read: moneyed) production values of some of the more lavish American comedies (set in wealthy homes in New York and L.A.) - the world of Pulling is a gritty, realistic world - but this only adds to the brilliance of Pulling and the believability of the characters. I was completely drawn into the drama of their lives, and found myself believing all of their ridiculous, self destructive antics, which is what made it so very, very funny.

Pulling is genius. I can't wait for Season 2 to come out on DVD.

This show is wonderful, intelligent, honest, dark and soda out the nose hilarious. I fell in love with in the first 5 minutes. This is a great show if you are a woman who is looking for something that doesn't shove fairy tale BS and traditional gender roles down your throat. This is the exact opposite. The women are horrible, the men are horrible, EVERYONE is horrible and in the most amusing ways. For the sick and twisted woman in your life.

This show isn't for everyone, no (what is?). It is brilliant, yes. But you might hate it - or, worse, just go "meh" - though probably only if you're expecting it to be something it isn't. That's because its humor - like most humor - isn't for everyone. But, rest assured, this means that if it does hit your funny bone, it *really* hits it, as it doesn't go for the broad "everyman" humor of sitcoms that is so depersonalized (and depersonalizing). Which is frankly sort of a contradiction (or would be, if we weren't all weened on over-broad, over-safe comedy), as this show derives its humor from the absurdity of life in the reality we share. That's where this show shines, by taking the everyday, the downright droll, and mining it for the humor that is there, that each of us goes through, but that we don't necessarily see the "funny" in just as a goldfish doesn't see the water, since, well, it's soaking in it. Or rather, I presume that's the case, as I've never been a goldfish. We're all soaking in the absurdity of life every single day, but Pulling gives us a new perspective, a distance, which allows us to see it for what it is. So sure, in some ways there's darkness to it, but then that's true for life, isn't it? However, to call this show 'dark' is sort of missing the point. So is saying it's anti-this or the antidote-to-that. Because here's what the show is: a unique creation, that stands on its own, and doesn't need to be held up to anything, compare or contrast. Here's also what it is: a show that illustrates not the darkness of life, but rather the humor surrounding even dark things (or the no-things), that exists not only despite the everyday, but because of it. The plot, the writing, the acting, the production - all of it succeeds where others have failed precisely because it is tone-perfect, note-perfect, reality-perfect, all by being true to itself. And that seems to be one of the hardest things to achieve, as so few ever pull it off. But Pulling does. To brilliance.

Donna, Karen, and Louise are three thirty-somethings all of whom make the dysfunctional Sex and the City characters look like true personality success stories. This is probably one of my favorite British comedies of all time, and I only just recently purchased it. The dynamic the three ladies share, and how their misfortune (however far-outish) is almost always easy to relate with, makes me love this show.

I've watched the first 2 episodes, it is so funny I am stretching it out to make it last. Might not be humour for everyone, perhaps I am a bit immature.

Not only is this a funny show, but it makes you wish Americans would grow up.

What would it be like to have adult content on our television without having to go to cable or HBO.

The Karen and Billy relationship is absolutely hysterical. The whole show is good, get it and watch it and see what watching adult television is all about.

Sex in the City was too fake. This is what happens to women who try to keep up with that idea.
I love seeing people who actually act like my friends, who live in reality. Why is this not on Lifetime?

"Pulling" is one of the funniest well written tv shows since "The Sopranos", "Six Feet Under" and "Entourage". Why wouldn't anyone who enjoys bold, bawdy comedy want to watch a sitcom described as

"the dark side of Sex and The City" and "the sitcom for people who hated FRIENDs and everything it represented"

with characters described as

"sluttsh alcoholic schoolteacher karen"

and

"desperately man-hungry Louise"

Who plunge into the single girl's real world of public drunkeness, shameful promiscuity, crippling guilt and the tantalizing possibilites of new love.

A classic has been born...........

Poor quality cinematography. Quite funny in parts but very cringe-worthy. Not sure worth the money I paid for it plus shipping overseas. Only a few episodes - obviously a start-up. Has potential but not there yet.

I purchased this DVD because of the hype, which made it sound like it was on par with the Office, Peep Show, etc. I fell for the tag line that this show was nothing like Friends I dislike Friends, predicable plots, one dimensional characters, and lame jokes that you can see coming from a mile away.

Take the three female characters from Friends, have them drink more, sleep around more, and throw up a lot, and you have Pulling. Pulling has nothing in it that you haven't seen before on every single crap sitcom released in the last ten years.