Merolliv
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
ChanFamous
I wanted to like it more than I actually did... But much of the humor totally escaped me and I walked out only mildly impressed.
Zlatica
One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.
Armand
a really good series. realistic, provocative, new form of confession and analysis of relationship, remarkable characters and large range of issues. a film who has not solutions. only questions about basic dilemmas of each family. a kind of mirror because it has not ambition to pimp the events or inspire ways for similar cases. so, in its case, the great virtue is the deep honesty to present in white/black manner the hopes, insecurity, joy, fear, needs and ghosts of characters in a way who reflect the realities of viewer. it is not a lesson and not a show. only an ordinary story about families, about broken relations and the dawn of new beginning. result - a bitter mixture, source of nice memories.
Mark Price
Bought Series One on spec and I am so glad I did. I expected an updated version of Different Strokes or something. No way. I watched all the episodes over the last two days stopping only to sleep. Wow! I went through all the emotions, crying a lot which doesn't come easily to a middle aged man. Superb acting from big and small, the script was outstanding with hardly a dull moment. The camera-work switching between homes mid dialogue and once coming through fridge doors! Series Two coming out soon and I can't wait. Yes everyone is a bit too good looking but I can cope with that as the story lines are all too true. Relationships, bereavement, etc are all there and are not sensationalised. Very nicely surprised and very much recommended.
Freedomisanillusion
Once and Again is a pearl of a show. It's always interesting, and more importantly, realistic.I started watching it as my sister had a crush on Shane West, but by the second episode I watched, I was hooked. Expecting it to be nothing more than a lightweight excuse for Shane West to act moody and broody, I found that instead it was a show where I saw that he actually can act, not to mention all his co-stars.Easily the most impressive is Evan Rachel Wood, showing to me (before Thirteen was even an idea) that she had a tremendous amount of talent, I found her story lines to be compelling, and her to be exemplary in them. Indeed, it was this show that made me want to see Thirteen so much, so as I could see her performing again.But I won't ramble.Once and Again is brilliant, and if there was ever a show that should be continued, this is it.
lsalga
I just found about this show with the DVD release, and I'm very impressed. The characters and the stories are so real that they could happen to me or some friends of mine. And the actors are doing a wonderful job portraying so real emotions. I was hooked right after having watched the pilot episode. The greatest family show I have ever watched, right along with Everwood and Gilmore Girls that are still on the air on The WB !The sad thing though, is that only the first season is available on DVD, too bad. I don't understand why Buena Vista canceled the release, it's almost like stopping the release of the movies "Back to the future" after the first opus, there's three. And there are also two more seasons of Once And Again still unreleased, so please Buena Vista or another studio whatever, release the remaining episodes of this Wonderful show !
