Product Details

• Actors: Kyle Bornheimer, Erinn Hayes, Nancy Leneham, Kurtwood Smith
• Directors: Adam Bernstein, Michael Spiller, Michael Lehmann, Marc Buckland
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: April 25, 2010
• Run Time: 343 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002C3GTLC
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,581 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Worst Week is an outrageous comedy series about a guy, a girl, her parents and a side-splitting assortment of catastrophes. Sam (Kyle Bornheimer, Jericho) and Melanie (Erinn Hayes, Kitchen Confidential) are engaged with a baby on the way – so winning over her parents is job #1 for Sam. Stern judge Dick (Kurtwood Smith, That '70s Show) and overprotective Angela (Nancy Lenehan, My Name is Earl) are willing to give this well-meaning young man the benefit of the doubt, but something utterly disastrous happens every time they get together. That won’t stop Sam from trying though and, with supportive Melanie doing damage control, he’ll just keep jumping back into the fray, hoping to charm his way into the good graces of his future in-laws. Each time he tries though the mishaps get crazier. Based on the acclaimed British sitcom The Worst Week of My Life, this madcap comedy from one of the twisted minds that brought you Scrubs boldly goes where no family misadventure has gone before.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another example of, what happened to.......?, November 27, 2009

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Lonny Kirby "Expert Music Critic" (Hilliard, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worst Week: The Complete Series (DVD)

This show was an example of, from week to week, a show that would make me cry from laughing so hard. One of those shows that you would snort, and laugh because it made you snort. Even when you absolutely knew what was coming next, to see it happen was hilarious. But then, the season ended, new season began and it was nowhere to be found on television. Whoever made the decision to cancel this show, whether it was up against a bigger hit (I don't even know what was on other channels in the same time slot), or what, ought NOT to be working in TV programming. I will have to get by watching this one season, over and over. It's that good, but I sure would have liked to have more than one season to enjoy.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Genuinely funny, December 2, 2009

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B. Coleman - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Worst Week: The Complete Series (DVD)

I didn't expect anything from this series - nothing at all, really, I was just bored, and it was available - but what I found was one of my favorite shows ever, right up there with Wonderfalls, Pushing Daisies, Coupling (UK, natch). And, you know, within shooting distance of Arrested Development (a far shooting distance, granted, but come on...) But of course it is nothing like them (but it is of course similar to the original UK series). What this is is funny, pure and simple, and, better yet, it's good-natured, with a warm heart, big laughs, and an almost innocent quality, even as it invokes shades of There's Something About Mary, and movies of that ilk.

This is the essential quality of this show: there's no-one you can't like. Only one that's even really iffy on that subject, if that. And it's about time stories are written about love and good intentions (without overdoing it). It's the easiest thing in the world to sit there and think how you're going to cause trouble for your hero, only to say, oh, the mean father, the cruel boss, the nosy neighbor. Not here. And that's where this show has its brains, by never taking the easy way out.

I don't want to invest this show with too many saintly qualities - it's just a sitcom, after all - but it doesn't feel forced, it makes you smile, it's compulsively entertaining. And it's about the most common condition, the one all its viewers share: we're all only human, right? This is a show about "nothing", but the nothing that means everything to the people involved in it. Not because they're snide, or bitter, or sarcastic. But because their hearts are in the right place.

And yet not sappy! That's an achievement right there. How many good-natured sitcoms can really say that? And what this one has going for it, it has going for it in spades.

An important note: This show lasted just the one season. But don't let that dissuade you - no, in fact, it sort of feels like that's the perfect length. So just soak it in, and know that while it doesn't end with an air of finality (they could have easily segued into a second season), it still does end, appropriately. No cliff-hangers. Just smiles, and maybe even a willingness to dive right back in from the beginning.

12 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Laugh Out Loud Funny, October 9, 2009

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Karlea (New Orleans, LA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Worst Week: The Complete Series (DVD)

I wasn't expecting much from this show - caught it once waiting for another. It was hilarious. I actually laughed out loud - which I have never done with a T.V. show before. I got several other friends hooked. I can't wait to get the show on DVD so that I can watch it start to finish, in order. Much, much better than expected.