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Exes and Ohs - The Complete First Seasonx$10.00
  (15 reviews)
Best Price: $19.99 $10.00
Meet Jennifer, a documentary filmmaker with a vivid fantasy life and a floundering career. Jennifer wants to find Ms. Right… but first she must navigate the rules of lesbian life, most of which she learns the hard way. Fortunately, her friends are there to help: Sam, a sexy commitment phobe who flips women faster than real estate; Chris and Kris, a lesbian couple expanding both their pet accessory business and their family; and Crutch, a young musician who wants to be taken seriously but still has some growing up to do. Surviving singlehood, couplehood – and each other – has never looked quite like this. Six half-hour episodes of Exes and Ohs fly right by in this clever show's first season. Directed by Lee Friedlander, Exes and Ohs humor is a careful blend of satire and sincerity, as mini-dramas in each saga mock elucidate the do's and don'ts of lesbian social and romantic codes. Each of the characters, based on clichéd "lesbian types," explode the clichés as the characters become rounder. The episodes are "hosted" by documentary filmmaker, Jennifer (Michelle Paradise), who periodically breaks out of character to describe the "rules" of lesbianism, as she learns them. Her best friend and former lover, Sam (Marnie Alton), is a free-spirited, sexy bombshell that provides a foil to Jennifer's tendencies to over-think creative work and relationships. The main story concerns Jennifer's traumatic breakup with Sienna (Darby Stanchfield), and Sam's efforts to get Jennifer dating again. Their network of friends, always gathering at the Beever Café, include Kris (Angela Featherstone) and Chris (Megan Cavanaugh), women in matching outfits who run a pet supply and adoption company who yearn for real motherhood, and Crutch (Heather Matarazzo), the budding Ani DiFranco wannabe. Subtle teasing happens to show these womens' acute awareness of the clichés surrounding them. To start, in "There Must Be Rules," Sienna has left Jennifer for their couple's therapist. Instead of chiding Sienna for this, Jennifer claims she is destined to become the new couples' best friend, because lesbian exes are above anger and jealousy. In "Cutthroat," Jennifer and Sam feud over a hot billiards player at the local bar, while Crutch gets a new guitar and writes Indigo Girls rip-off tunes to everyone's chagrin. In "Pole Dancing and Other Forms of Therapy," Jennifer discovers therapeutic stress relief in a pole-dancing self-help workshop. Later episodes tackle deeper issues, so that by "What Goes Around," Sam and Jennifer grapple with commitment avoidance, Kris and Chris consider how to get pregnant, and Crutch graduates to role-model status in her community. Since some scenes get overly psychological and borderline corny, it is refreshing to have Sam constantly reminding her lady friends that sometimes women need to stop with the sensitive analysis to "just get laid." Maybe the second season will have more spicy romance.--Trinie Dalton
MPN: PARD892114D - UPC: 097368921146
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Customer Reviews
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Excellent Series
By A6OCU7DV3NYL3 on 2008-05-06
I downloaded this series from I-Tunes and the episodes were so good that I couldn't stop watching it. I watched all the episodes in one sitting! What an outstanding series! It's much, much more realistic than the L-Word. It's so nice to see Lesbian characters on television that are like real people, not hollywood actors! I very highly recommend that you watch this series!
Brilliant!
By A2LFT739S8TZVP on 2008-05-30
Absolutely brilliant. One easily falls in love with the characters, all their quirks and sweet oddities. Much more believable than any other series.
Depicts all kinds of women, not just some standardised "Barbie-lesbian" in designer clothes. The worries, the fun, the friendships and the love seem so real. And I absolutely love this circle of friends, for the way they all are in eachothers lives, without being overwhelming. Also, the tiny bits of neuroticism are truly endearing. It's like meeting a ready-made bunch of new very good friends. Highly recommended!
2 only because it has lesbian content
By AD5RBLUN6QVIB on 2008-06-04
The only reason i kept watching it was because it had lesbian content... other than that it's rather painful viewing. Don't understand why those other people who wrote amazon reviews loved it so much! The lead character is annoying, the script is forced, the sets ugly, the jokes ...heavy sigh. need i go on.
loved it!!!
By A3FQUC6SIKS10F on 2008-06-07
It was lots of fun watching this. If you're like me, when you saw "The Ten Rules", you thought, 'This is so great, I wish it were longer!' Well, now it is. I love it!!!
Quirky and Funny
By AJ9HPPVX233MI on 2008-09-15
I bought the dvd after amazon recommended it, based on my recent purchase of the L-word series, and was pleasantly surprises. The entire season fits onto one disk, so the episodes are short, but surprisingly entertaining. A bit exxagerated, but most topics and situations are very real and the characters, very, very believeable. I found this tv series and the main character especially, to be delightfully charming and real.
- Fun, a little sexy, quirky too; a tamer, less galmerous version of L Word.
By AP3R7PFGRNBCS on 2008-10-21
These women are more on the real side of L Word; the quality of filming is something less than the big budget L Word, but the story lines are more real. Lifestyle that we can mostly relate to, without the Hollywood non-reality glitz. The actresses are mostly believable, but the couple with the long term commitment is just too sappy. Not enough hot, sexy scenes!! I longed for some of that Hollywood drama!! If you're going to make a "real" lesbian community drama, at least make it extreme in one or two situations...and make at least ONE of them a huge problem instead of a loveable annoyance! Get them drunk and show it, get them jealous and show it, if you want to make it real, MAKE IT REAL! Reality and real, hot sex scenes are what is MISSING in this genre!!
- exs & ohs season 1
By A1LI52YJYAYM5S on 2008-10-24
Exs & Ohs is an interesting and entertaining series. Having never seen the show before I purchased this series, I was expecting something along the lines of the L Word. There were some similarities, but overall it was quite different. It is a less glamorous look and the lives of gay women. Some of the acting is less than perfect, but the story lines are quite humorous.
- Hugs & Kisses are cool.
By A27JOA7KUWKSBP on 2008-07-03
I bought Exes an Ohs with no expectations. I actually wondered how LWord influeneced it was going to be. It was light hearted and fun. Nice to see a series that's driven from a different perspective - looking forward to season 2.
- Since I've already seen it when it aired...BTW: When the hell is the 2nd season starting?!
By A3NSNZHLDSAIYF on 2008-07-13
I love this show, I had to buy it right up. The struggles of Jen&Sam sometimes has an underlying (Can you say TiBette? Very good, indeed) "I still am in-love with you, but you have these issues that keep us so close yet so far apart" makes the show worth watching over and over again.
I am (The L Word) Bette/Tina Shipper. And (Exes&Ohs) Sam/Jen Shipper, also. So, if the people behind this show is reading this? I represent a multitude of others...who just aren't writing their own reviews.
- Simplicity makes good television
By A2M7DDME4TJN9T on 2008-08-04
I was skeptical when I saw a preview for this show Online. Then again, I decided I wouldn't be ignorant about it and just watch at least one episode. Boy, did I fool myself long enough? I absolutely love this show. I love it's simplicity. It's easy to follow each of the characters and their lives without being overloaded with useless story lines. Example: The L Word. Whoever reviewed this show saying they only watched it because there is lesbians in it, is a stupid remark. That's like me saying I only watch this show because Bob has black hair. Nevertheless, if you like watching The L Word, then you'll absolutely love this show!
Less is more.
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