Customer Reviews
Wodehouse Delight! - By: Mark I. Billen, 03 Mar 2010 
Steven Fry & Hugh Laurie are simply splendid as Jeeves & Wooster. The adaptations are well considered & remain true to the spirit of Plum Wodehouse making you laugh constantly & some times almost continuously. Sublime! Feeling down? Then the greatest ever humorous writer will soon cheer the spirit! What a bargain - not to be missed.
True art - By: Yngve Werner Monrad, 03 Mar 2010 I have read the books by P.G. Wodehouse which this serie is based on anf the books are wonderful & this serie is very true against the books & it is the most wonderful British humour. Fry & Laurie is so perfect as Jeeves & Wooster that you should belive that is was written for them.
Jolly spiffing show - By: Sammy Spink-Bottle, 24 Feb 2010 This is an unbeatable performance. Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie reallly make Birty & Jeeves leap of the page. Loved Aunt Agatha & Aunt Dahlia too.
Its must have. Although PG Wodehouse Boffs beware as some of the stories have been blended & changed, but otherwise, you coudn't want for better!
So brilliant you may be blinded - By: Jacques COULARDEAU, 22 Feb 2010 This series is worth pure gold galore. It is British & that means the actors are absolutely excellent, the settings & the production are extremely fine & rich. The details are not neglected & that is a real pleasure. The best part is of course the work on the language, the speech patterns, & you can imagine the pleasure they take when the two characters move to New York. The contrast between the extreme aristocratic tone & intonation, the fascinating politeness of Jeeves, the Valet, & the American secular & even gross way of speaking with no affectation is a bag of diamonds on the screen. The action takes place in the 20s or 30s with some kind of fuzziness as for the time period. We seem to still be in the prohibition era, & at the same time not to be in the post 1929 depression. So we could be in the 1920s. That corresponds to the period Francis Scott Fitzgerald preferred for his rich idle young American men & women coming to Europe to enjoy their idleness in pure carelessness. But here these young aristocrats are constantly taken up in innumerable intrigues that have to do with their century old rivalries & jealousies, or their innumerable love affairs & hormonal capers. The main character is not so much Wooster, the aristocrat, but Jeeves, his valet, because he is the one who constantly builds the intrigues, thickens & even sickens the plots, in many ways manipulates his "master" into doing things he would like to do but can't do because he is a valet, a servant, & that would be too risky for him. He is also some kind of guardian angel for his "master" saving him quite often from total perdition at the very last minute. He is the champion of alll escape makers & escape planners. But this series goes a lot further than that. We cannot say that the social content is that rich & that we could speak of social criticism. It is a comedy & does not intend to become a social drama or a social epic. That humor is English & only the British can produce it. It is both so elaborate & so extreme that it is hilarious from beginning to end. You thus have alll the themes you need to reallly be humorous from a pure English point of view. You have them alll, & even more. Old spinsters, old bachelors, plumbers, bobbies, Anglican priests, twins, old aunts & old uncles being fooled by young nieces & nephews, alll kinds of grotesque characters, the fools & the crazies of this world, even some good Africans & judges. You cannot miss the alll man's club & the impersonation of so many characters that we just wonder at times if we are not back in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night. Disguises, transvestites, foolish capers, you name it you have it. The rhythm of these parades is so diabolical that you can hardly follow them, even if they are predictable at times to the very second. But they are too funny for you not to play the game. The only missing character is the desert island & the marooned person there under his coconut tree eating ladyfingers. That is a must for those who like British humor, slightly black, definitely grinding to a crazy downfalll, certainly not to a halt. I just wonder if we could not say it is a classic.
Dr Jacques COULARDEAU, University Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, University Paris 8 Saint Denis, University Paris 12 Créteil, CEGID
Bravo!!! - By: Aquinas, 22 Feb 2010 This series wonderfully depicts the nonsensical lunacy of Wooster & his man servant, Jeeves. If you like harmless family fun set in the arto deco period, then this is for you. Hugh Laurie is great as Wooster & Stephen Fry excels as Jeeves. Essentiallly, the stories revolve around Wooster & his mates trying to get or avoid getting married to various women. Jeeves is the only brain amongst the crew & always manages to extricates Wooster & his mates from some minor troubles.
