7th Heaven - The Sixth Season

From leading television producer Aaron Spelling comes 7th Heaven a critically acclaimed family drama about a minister his wife and their seven children. The WB's highest-rated series 7th Heaven has captured the hearts of television audiences with its witty charming and heartwarming storytelling and has been praised for providing high-quality entertainment for all ages.System Requirements:Running Time: 966 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361370040 Manufacturer No: 137004 Product Description

Favorite TV show Drama!

This is a wholesome TV show and I would recommend everyone in your family sit down a watch an episode. They have problems just like everyone else! They are not fake like other TV show dramas. They deal with real life issues!
October 4, 2008

Just what I wanted!

I bought this as a birthday gift for my grandmother. The shipping was very fast and she loved it! September 15, 2008

Wonderful!

7th Heaven - Seasons 1-5
One of the best tv series ever with morally sound looks at topics the whole family can watch and discuss. August 16, 2008

The Saga Continues!

Packaging was excellent, order arrived in a timely manner, and merchandise was exactly as ordered. Can't wait for the NEXT season to become available on DVD! Thank you! August 5, 2008

Generally enjoyable

I have already written about the highs and lows of previous seasons of the series. In the 6th season, there are several weird aspects that creep into (or return to) the show. Most of these problems are in the first half, when the show decides to have mother Annie flip out again (more hormone-based stereotypes just as had been used throughout the pregnancy season), culminating in one of the most distasteful scenarios of the show to this point - where she (again) insists that she's right and forces half the kids to sleep in the unfinished garage attic room until they are willing to apologize to her for basically questioning her judgement after she clearly shows favoritism toward Mary (as if her overreaction hadn't simply proven the kids' initial protests to be correct). And then, father Eric simply lets her get away with this tyranny. (He could stand up to her on religious principles at the end of the season but not at this point when their kids were suffering??? Pu-leez!) It reminded me of the movie "Mommy Dearest" where the mother wants the daughter to sit in front of a plate of raw meat until it's finished, except that at least that movie gave viewers the satisfaction of someone telling the tyrant off in the end. In these episodes, however, it's somehow presumed that Annie is justified in her stubbornness, and unfortunately this isn't just limited to one episode that can be criticized as a mere fluke, but a small series of episodes that made me ready at one point to give up watching the series. The writing problems at that point were severe. The last half of the season, however, plus various episodes in between those "spoiled and manipulative mother" ones, were quite enjoyable, with the usual amounts of humor and character interaction that one has grown to expect in the series. One weird stumble in the second half, however, was the "Known Soldier" episode... although meant as an homage to our armed forces, and including tributes to an actual soldier and his family, some of the writing again sounds as if it's being read off of political pamphlets instead of sounding at all natural. One would have hoped they'd place more care in the writing of such an important episode, and yet several sequences come across as totally amateurish in their conception. After a bit of eye-rolling at the totally contrived-sounding "conversation" between Simon and Robby, who act as mere mouthpieces for writer Brenda Hampton, the episode is only able to recover by again invoking the situations of the actual persons to whom it gives tribute. The difference between the fictional contrivance and the actual persons is difficult to overcome, making me feel primarily that the soldiers deserved a much higher quality script than was actually delivered.

At least several past stumbling blocks turned out not to be so much of a problem in this season. Mary seems to have reformed and thus become more appealing again, the Simon problems that are described on the packaging prove not to be as serious as they sound, and thus fortunately do not mark a decline in that character, and the other characters are pretty much "status quo" except that Matt finally heads down the marriage path and Ruthie has finally grown into being a more interesting character in her own right.

In general, the series is now much more focused on routine bickering between the sisters, and endless romantic overtures between the family members and a set of recurring actors. There are many pleasant episodes, a few head-slappingly misguided sequences, and a few fairly routine proceedings. Although pleasant, the topical themes of the show are now much more limited and prone to stumbling. Still, the season seemed a little less annoying during its stumbling than it had during 5th season. Yet, it also has fewer moments that succeed really well. I might have finally dropped the review from 4 to 3 stars, except that I found most of the second half of the season to be quite pleasant and enjoyable, and quite a few episodes from the first half as well. Also of note seems to be that for perhaps the first time, the content is finally down to a mere PG level instead of including the PG-13 types of thematic elements and drug-related moments that were present in previous seasons. I will be buying season 7 if it comes out, but due to my general enjoyment of the show, feel the need to complain a bit about its missteps. August 4, 2008

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