Customer Reviews

Sex & The City: The Complete Collection (Deluxe Edition)

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There is not much more to be said about the collection than the item description. It is everything! The packaging is beautiful- velvety suede inside, gorgeous pictures, quotes laying over them... but the discs are in the most impossible place! They are TUCKED snuggly into the pages and you have to tug them free! Once dislodged, there are hand smudges from your effort. Other than that, its beautiful. I just thought, if you go through the trouble of designing this sophisticated package, why not design a functional disc holder?

I am the proud owner of SATC's individual seasons from years back, watched many times over by myself and passed around to my daughters. I was extremely excited to get this beautiful new series this past Christmas. The packaging is just that, beautiful! Season 1, disc 1, perfect. Season 1, disc 2 episodes 7-12, not so much! Not only would it not start at the beginning of the first episode, I didn't have sound. No matter what I tried, this disc wasn't going to play.

I believe the real issue is the cardboard inserts for the disc's. They hold them so tightly, you have to toggle them back and forth to carefully pull them out. I had the same issue with the "Lost" series and sent that series back twice to Amazon! I really don't want to go through the same frustration again with SATC, so I decided to take that particular disc and exchange it with the disc from my very first individually acquired set. I just hope, going forward, that I'm not put in the same position of having to switch them out again.

And by the way, the 3 star rating has nothing to do with Amazon. They were amazing to deal with when I had the "Lost" issue! YAY, for Amazon :) Sex & the City: Complete Collection (Deluxe Edition)

If your a fan of "Sex and the City" this is the ultimate collector's item. Here you get the entire series in its entirety, everything from the series' episodes (all 94 shows) to the two feature-length films, plus a great bonus DVD that contain an array of extras that you will enjoy over and over.

Very few cable shows have ever experienced the kind of success that "Sex and the City" had. Viewers were entranced every week as Carrie and her three best friends, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda, led very busy lives in New York City. All four ladies had great jobs and active sex lives, something the women were not ashamed of. These characters epitomized what life was like for single women in America in the late '90's and early 2000's, and what made the show so appealing was the fact that these women loved each other and were always there for one another. Their family was a "family of choice" and no one could break that bond.

In 2008 "Sex and the City" hit the big screen for the first time in "Sex and the City-The Movie" where it became an instant boxoffice smash. It was no surprise that there was an immediate sequel called "Sex and the City 2", but unfortunately due to a mediocre script and the girls not being situated in New York, the film was a commercial flop. Still, it's nice to see both films offered in this new box-set that collector's will enjoy for posterity.

The bonuses that accompany this set includes interviews with the cast, audio commentaries, deleted scenes, "next-episode" previews, and more. The subtitles are in English, French, and Spanish and the episodes are presented in the original full-screen format, the way they were orignally broadcast.

I do not have anything negative to say about the presentation of this set - this book is stunning and well made. Yes, the sleeves are a bit tight, but after one use, they loosened up and I do not foresee any damage happening to the discs.

That said, there are some things missing from this set making it incomplete. The bonus disc has new round-table discussions from the writers, which is nice, but excludes the original HBO two-part "farewell" special. Also, I have the extended cut of the first movie and it feels incomplete to watch the theatrical cut. I wasn't exactly expecting the extended cut, but it would have been nice to see here.

Overall, I am very happy with this beautiful collection, but slightly disappointed that it's not "complete" enough to be able to get rid of the individual seasons and movies.

Prior to ordering this SATC boxset, I was considering the older set which was the one beautifully bound in pink velvet. I though I was lucky because of my so-called procrastination when they released this boxset, which I promptly ordered without much hesitation. Even after reading the reviews about the packaging "situation" did not deter me, and I was bent on getting my hands on it.

Boy, I should have listened.

The boxset is really gorgeous and beautifully packaged, and the compliments end there. The discs were seriously lodged in the grooves very tightly and you really had to pull hard to get it out! Besides getting fingerprints on the disc, you also end up with a few little scratches, which in my opinion, shouldn't happen on a newly bought dvd, but more so from many years of watching it over and over again. And a couple of the discs even had problems playing smoothly, and I had to wonder whether it was a faulty disc, or from pulling it out and causing it to be scratched.

Such a beautiful boxset will definitely be a wonderful keepsake, but I have to wonder how long till it becomes so badly scratched that I will not be able to watch it, and it will just be sitting pretty on my shelf only to serve as a display piece.

I love SATC, I have had the individual seasons for years. I was so excited when I saw they had an updated box set with both movies. The box set is beautiful.. pictures and everything. It's also a very portable.. great if you want to take the whole series with you on vacation or over to a guest's house. My only problem; the episode guides inside and picture quotes are LOADED with typos. Literally every 3 pages you can find one. For example, Season 2. Episode 1 is titled "Take Me To The Ball Game" but in the episode guide it says "Take Me To The Sall Game".. also on the picture of the girls in Abu Dhabi it says "Four friends embark on the trip of a lifetie"... did anyone else notice this? It slightly downs the set for me, it is beautiful.. but the spelling mistakes are so careless!

being a huge sex and the city fan i was contemplating buying the series on dvd for quite some time, tired of watching edited reruns on e!, well the individual seasons were too expensive so i was leaning toward the pink velvet set, but after reading review after review of malfunctioning discs and poor quality i decided to spend the extra money and buy this set ( i got it on sale at $116) what a great deal!! i chose the amazon free shipping and it arrived literally 2 days later! and it is a beautiful set! the front and back cover has quotes all over it that look like the city scape and the inside is gorgeous! amazing pictures and a beautiful display. i was a little concerned about the discs being lodged in, but seriously guys, they arent even tough to get out, you give them a gentle tug and they come out scratch free, every single episode and both movies played flawlessly and i love the play all feature! (this was missing on the individual seasons) and i love that i get both movies in this perfect set! so to those of you contemplating between this and the pink one, GET THIS ONE! i am so happy with my purchase and i will enjoy it for many years to come! sorry that is long but if your a true sex and the city fan you should know what your getting and i am telling you that you will not be disappointed!!!

I was lucky enough to buy this on an Amazon "Deal of the Day" and boy am I glad I got it! It arrived well packed and was in a box within the shipping box. After opening it up I was really impressed with the look and feel of the whole package. Like others have mentioned, the style of it with the velvet interior, beautiful pictures inside with quotes on overlying frosted pages, makes for a really great presentation of the series. It's like a big book, with the discs neatly tucked inside the pages, reaching the end of the book you get the movies and the bonus disc. It's really a nice package and for the people who love this series and enjoy it for the fun that it is, this is absolutely a must have collectible. It's so nice to have the whole shebang all in one place too! I suggest buying it on sale since even as a big fan I'll admit I would not pay $250 (the list price) for this, but for $150 or less, this is SO worth it. Totally recommended.

I purchased this awhile now and although I had to break the bank to pay for it, it's still worth it. You have to be a fan to want it that badly. Whenever I feel lonely or depressed or the girls come over and want to watch chick flicks- I always have a good laugh! now only if I could get the man to watch with me he might learn something or two about women. You have to be a fan to relate.

This set is so much better than the set in the pink box and for just a little more you get both movies! Tried the other set 3 times and nothing but problems with the disks. Others had problems getting the disks out of this set. They are in there tightly, but if you take your time getting them out there is no problem with scratches at all. Enjoyed being able to watch the whole series without interruptions or commercials.