Customer Reviews

jPod Season 1

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J Pod is extremely well written and well acted (especially Emilie Ullerup and Sherry Miller). The characters are well drawn, unique three dimensional people. The dialouge is witty and sparkling. The show manages to be funny and serious, absurb and dramatic all at the same time. Everyone should see this show. It is far superior to anything on the air now.

Great mental series, if you have any interest in games and randomness then this is a must funnily random comedy series. It's a shame not many people have seen this series im not one to order from USA to the UK but i just had to with this dvd. I have read the book and watched the series back to front to be honest i prefer the dvd. Such a shame the series was cut short. What to expect and great range of characters, unusual plot lines and lots of intertextuality

I'm a huge fan of Douglas Coupland and loved jPod (the book) so I pre-ordered this as soon as it came out on Amazon.ca (Canadian website). After patiently waiting for a few weeks, I received my copy to find that Episode 8 on disk 2 was only a partial episode and would cut back to the menu after the first "commercial break". I've read other reports on the same issue on the internet.

I ended up returning my copy and I'll try again someday.

Aside from that disappointment, the DVD is awesome and if you're a fan of Douglas Coupland (especially jPod and Microserfs) you'll LOVE this DVD.

I ADORE Douglas Coupland's writing.

I had to PRE-ORDER 'Generation X' back before it was even released - based on a review in a December,1991 Rolling Stone. His books, with a couple exceptions, have really spoken to me. I thought with this book he was back to his glory days of 'Generation X' and 'Microserfs.' I have met him a couple of times and several of my Coupland books have been signed.

Yes, I'm a fan.

When I heard that Jpod was going to be a series I was thrilled. More than thrilled.

After the first couple episodes, my interest started to wander. By the time I read it was going to not going be renewed I was actually ok with it.

It was like the 'Lisa the Vegetarian' episode of the Simpsons when Homer's suckling pig goes airborne and he keeps saying 'It's still good....it's still good...' when obviously it isn't going to be the longer it goes on and it's just become wishful thinking.

I generally liked the cast - it was a sympathetic, interesting group - with the possible exceptions of Alan Thicke and Colin Cunningham, who I rather like in other things but was just kind of wrong in this. Alan Thicke just freaked me out - that taut, overly-face lifted face hamming it up for the camera? Ack. Some of the supporting cast actually made it a much weaker effort. Sherry Miller was fine, David Kopp was fine.

The settings were how I envisioned them so that was ok.

I guess I just found the whole effort kind of stilted - either the timing was wrong, or the supporting people detracted enough from the really good main actors carrying the series or I don't know what - the last few episodes just became like the Bataan Death march. Maybe my expectations were too high.

So, although I own multiple copies of most of his books, I can't envision buying this series.