Living Single - The Complete First Season (2006)

Long Awaited Living Single DVD!

By marco  Apr 12, 2007

Pros: Great show finally on DVD, Episode Selection,

Cons: Little Special Features, Weird Packaging, No Queen Latifiah in Featurette Interview

Fox's popular sitcom Living Single finally comes to DVD. The show itself was groundbreaking combining a talented African-American cast, equally interesting characters, and sharp writing.

Big time actress Queen Latifah heads the cast as Khadijah, the editor in chief of her own struggling magazine called Flava. Kim Coles plays her at times ditsy cousin Synclaire, Kim Fields plays the self-proclaimed diva Regine, and Erika Anderson plays the shark of a lawyer Maxine Shaw. Terrance "TC" Carter and John Henton round out the cast as Kyle Barker and Overton Jones.

The show puts the characters in interesting situations while they engage in funny commentary about life, love, and relationship. The characters are never lost in exaggerated urban dialect but at the same time they are relatable. This was a rarity in television at the time and still is today. The chemistry between the cast is undeniable.

I have a couple of bones to pick about this DVD. It has nothing to do with the show and more with the FOX network. There is only one special feature, a sort of brief featurette featuring interviews with the cast. It's nice to see the cast, but Queen Latifiah oddly is not interviewed. I cannot fathom why they wouldn't include the main star of the show even if there were scheduling conflicts. It would have been nice to see behind the scenes clips, bloopers, maybe even a screen test or two. But no, just a little featurette but it is still worth it. Hopefully whenever season 2 comes out, Fox will take it into consideration.

The sound is pretty good, the image is pretty good... nothing remarkable about it.

Overall, a worthy purchase to add to your DVD collection.