Customer Reviews

She Spies - The Complete First Season

5 star:		(14)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(6)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(1)

 

 

In July 2002, NBC aired She Spies starring Natasha Henstridge from Spices as well as 2 newcomers. After 3 airings on NBC, She Spies became a hit so they decided to run the show into syndication which began on the weekend of Sept. 30, 2002 and lasted for 2 seasons before getting uncerimoniusly cancelled in Sept 2004 and ran in repeats for the remainder of the 2004-05 season before getting off the air the week of 9/10-9/11/05. Anyway this show is one of the best that got robbed of a longer run. Anyway here are the episodes that will be on the DVD set.

NBC Premiere run episodes
1.) First episode 7/20/02
The Spies take on their first mission - saving a former politician and current talk show host from being assassinated on his own program.

2.) The Martini Shot 7/27/02
Cassie goes undercover as a runway model to break up a fashion industry ring.

3.) Poster Girl 8/3/02
The Spies go after two brothers running a bogus charity scam.


Syndicated episodes (Began the week of 9/30/02)

4.) Daddy's Girl 9/30/02
The team are assigned as bodyguards to protect a rebellious teenager.

5.) Fondles 10/21/02
Cassie and Shane go undercover at a singles' apartment complex to break up an Icelandic spy ring.

6.) Ice Man 10/28/02
The Spies go undercover at a comedy club to capture a serial killer who preys on spies.

7.) Three Women and a Baby 11/4/02
The She Spies end up caring for a baby left on their doorstep who is the child of a major arms dealer.

8.) Trap 11/11/02
The girls are trapped in their own house by a killer looking for revenge.

9.) Spies vs. Spy 11/18/02
The Spies go up against a former member of the project when they protect an ambassador's daughter on her wedding day.

10.) Perilyzed 12/2/02
The women remember how they met in prison as they wait for a poisonous stuffed frog to finish killing them.

11.) Betrayal 1/13/03
D.D. turns traitor and the other Spies are forced to arrest her.

12.) Girl With the Broken Heart 1/27/03
The team go to a pharamaceutical convention to prevent a theft and Cassie meets an old flame.

13.) You Don't Know Jack 2/3/03
The Spies are pitted against a deadly assassin - La Puma. But he's closer then they think...

14.) First Date 2/10/03
The Spies must investigate three partners to find which one of them is selling secrets.

15.) While You Were Out 2/17/03
The Spies must protect a top CEO from assassination.

16.) Daze of Future Past 4/14/03
Jack is in an accident and loses his memory - he must recover before the villains' master plan that he can't remember goes off. Or must he?

17.) The Replacement 4/21/03
International thief Indigo captures Cassie, and the Spies are forced to take on a new teammate to recover her.

18.) Damsels in De-Stress 4/28/03
While visiting a destress clinic, the Spies are stalked by a bomber who needs a vital piece of evidence they have to set off his or her bombs.

19.) Learning to Fly 5/5/03
The Spies must protect an animal activist being transferred by plane.

20.) We'll Be Right Back 5/12/03
An old friend of Shane's is undergoing cyrogenic treatment but the Spies discover it's a front for a criminal scheme.

There would be one other season before the show got canned and this and the 2nd season would be repeated for 04/05 season. But It's a great show that should be at least made into a movie.

Season One of She Spies was wonderful. It had humor, clever wit, double meanings to scenes and to the dialog, and it had one of the most brilliant comedy actors for the girls to play off, Carlos Jacott. Carlos was in all three of Joss Whedon's TV series, Buffy, Angel, and Firefly, one of only four people to do so. When you see his scope in She Spies you might understand why the brilliant Mr. Whedon used him so diligently. Natasha and Natashia and Kristen (how can anyone not love Kristen Miller!?) are also great, their martial arts are actually somewhat functional, and the show is just lots of fun. Dummies need not buy it: they won't get the humor. Skip season two, which lacked Carlos Jacott. Cameron Daddo added exactly nothing, and the show became dull in the sense it was commonplace, never achieving the same heights of wit seen in this season one set. However, this reviewer, who is a bit hard of hearing, sorely misses the text overlays (subtitles) that were on TV. Buy it and enjoy a fun ride. It's absolutely delightful.

The first season of She Spies was a very entertaining, off-the-wall comedy. Think "Naked Gun" meets "Charlies Angels". The show drastically shifted gears for the second season, though (due to poor ratings perhaps) and attempted to be a straightforward action show. It just didn't work. Get the first season set and enjoy some good laughs and eye-candy.

People who keep comparing this show to Charlie's Angels is missing the point. That this show has three beautiful women acting as "spy" heroines is where the similarity kind of ends. This show has plenty of smartly-written, witty, and fresh comedic material to stand on its own. The eye-candies are just very nice bonuses. There was a time when this was one of the very few shows that I actually looked forward to relaxing myself and watching during the week. It is light-hearted, funny, and never takes itself too seriously. I am very glad the DVD is finally out -- this fan has waited for years!

I loved this show. However, I am disappointed by the new dvd release. heres why:

On television, before most of the commercial breaks, the image turned into a still, then transformed into a telescope sight.
At the end of the commercial break, the same thing happened but in reverse.
The new dvds are missing these bumpers. The show fades out rather quickly then fades in just as quickly.
This causes both truncation in video and music content.
During its original run, the telescope transitions were not at every commerical break, but at most of them.
Shame on MGM for cutting this episodes.
If you can live without this slight alteration, get the set. the show is fun and the girls are quite fetching.

She*Spies is a Charlie's Angels ripoff combined with the Robert Wagner show "It Takes a Thief" and James (Jane) Bond concepts. Three sexy females being released from prison to spy for the government as She*Spies. You can see some of the Bond jokes coming and some seem almost hurtful

Sometimes this show takes the spy satire a bit too far. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. This show like VIP has many INJOKES...Some seem to fall flat on their face. However when it works, its really funny

This 20 espisode four disk set has no extras...just episodes, if you like VIP with less plot, you will like She*Spies

Bennet Pomerantz, AUDIOWORLD

This may not be worth 4 stars for most people but it is entertaining and my daughters like watching it too. It's comedy in the Charlies Angels format, three skilled women with a not so skilled male leader. The comedy may be a little simple or silly for some but without it the series just wouldn't work. In the second season they got too serious and then there was no third season. If you're thinking there will be lots of bikinis you might be disappointed. There are some but it's not baywatch. I have noticed that the price went up $15.00 since I ordered it so I wonder if demand has caused the increase. I'm not sure it's worth that much. Still, it's something I can watch with my girls when we find ourselves stuck at home on a Saturday night.

I have been waiting for "She Spies" to be released on DVD for a very very long time. I absoulutly love this series. Its a shame it was cancelled.

She Spies: Bad girls gone good. They also made one heck of a DVD release. I remember watching this show originally when it aired on Saturdays, then again when it moved to Sundays. It was a fun show and had a lot to be proud of.

The cast consists of 3 beautiful women with incredible bodies and powerful moves. These women were criminals who now wear skintight outfits and fight crime. It may have originated as a ploy to gain male viewers (which they sometimes joke about) but they are also great female icons. It is always awesome to see strong female characters on TV.

These ladies are Cassie, DD, and Shane. Even though they were criminals, they were not bad guys. The show made it clear that they went to jail as a result of helping someone they loved. It was a sacrifice they chose to make. And because of their strength, they were chosen to become part of a government agency that brings the bad guys to justice. Throughout the show, they save lies without recognition. And even though it's technically their "duty," it is actually something they are proud of and couldn't imagine doing anything else.

The show does an excellent job of creating three drastically different women, especially considering that 2 out of the 3 are blonde. I think out of the three ladies, DD is my favorite. She is definitely the cutest and she has a fun personality! Out of the entire cast, I think Jack is the best character. Not only is he funny, but he is also a good character to bounce jokes off of. The absence of Jack in Season 2 is the sole reason I stopped watching the show.

The Season One DVD set includes twenty episodes. The pilot is my least favorite episode, but it does its job with getting you familiar with the cast. All the episodes are hilarious and fun! Lots of fights, action, and jokes. Unfortunately, there are no extras included in this set.

In format, She Spies is reminiscent of Charlie's Angels. Three beautiful women are led by a slightly nerdy, romantically harmless, male through weekly adventures. But the similarities end with the structure.

She Spies attempts to be a satirical and clever send-up to a whole host of TV action show cliches, and it often succeeds in its humor. The action itself tends to be played pretty straight. It is in the banter and observations between the women spies, their verbal exchanges with the villains, and the women's running battle with their "Bosley" leader, Carlos Jannott, where the humor and the satire come out.

You expect Natasha Henstridge to be beautiful to watch and to have "attitude"--she typically plays that type of role in her movies. If you like her in her movies, you will like her here.

Natasha Williams, plays the black female operative who is tough and proud. Her character is fairly undeveloped, but nonetheless has her fair share of witty dialogue.

But it is Kristen Miller, as the third woman of the trio who truly shines, and makes the show a cut above what you expect to find. She is cute, smart, sassy, and a little ditsy--if that sounds like a contradiction, that is because it is, and that is what makes her character so much fun to watch.

Carlos Jannott is excellent as the women's boss, with equal doses of wit and goofiness, to make his contribution to the show memorable.

All and all, She Spies is great combination of "eye candy" and wit.