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DVD
Paramount
Publisher: MTV
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Navigating life and love in L.A. isn't easy, and no one knows that better than Noah and his friends - Alex, Ricky & Chance. LOGO's ground-breaking, one-of-a-kind series Noah's Arc follows all four as they chart an uncertain course through the City of Angels, where laughter and drama are never in short supply.
What if Sex and the City met Queer as Folk and The L Word--with an all-male, all-black, all-gay cast? Noah's Arc, the winsome Logo Channel series about the dating and sexual adventures of sweet, naive Noah, a would-be screenwriter, and his pals in pumped-up L.A., is just as sweetly addictive as those shows. And it's all the more ground-breaking because nearly the entire cast is African American--stellar actors all. At the center of the circle is Noah (Darryl Stephens), the soft-spoken Carrie/Charlotte character; surrounding him are Chance, Alex, and Ricky, who are pretty much all Samanthas, which can up the sex patter to a fever pitch. Noah struggles as a screenwriter, and struggles in his dating life, at one point becoming wildly attracted to a successful film writer named Wade ("What kind of name is that?!" screeches one pal; Noah replies, "His momma was in the choir and her favorite song was 'Wade in the Water!'"). Turns out even gay guys can have rusty gaydar; Noah--and we--can't tell if Wade's attracted to him or not. The cast rallies 'round one another for adventures like this, and others, great and small, and that's what begins to make it compulsively watchable, whether you're single, gay, or of color or not. Seeing L.A. through Noah's friends' prisms is just as fun; it's a pretty and sculpted eye-candyland. The boxed set includes nine episodes and a fantastic disc of extras, including deleted scenes, auditions, the pilot and commentary featuring the cast and creator, showing the camaraderie we see on the screen was shared on the set too. Let's hear it for the boys! --A.T. Hurley
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| Noah's Arc: First and Second Season |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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My daughter's friend turned her on to this series and she in turn shared it with me. I love it. I love it and am now hooked. It is about life and relationships. The series may have portrayed the stories through the lives of these beautiful Gay, Black Men but the interactions and life's experiences is not GAY, STRAIGHT, MAN, WOMAN, BLACK, WHITE, etc... It is something we all share and have in common and can probably identify with. It is bottom-line human without all the tags and labels. It made me laugh, it made me cry, it made me happy, it made me sad, it made me mad, it made me think, and it also it made me a Voyeur (LOL). The characters are personable, individualistic, and delightful. I have a love for them all. The stories are well written, thought through, entertaining and informative. There is nothing negative I can say about it.
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| Eldest enjoyed this |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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I bought this for my 21 year old daughter. She liked it enough to buy it for her aunt's recent birthday. She did mention, however, that it was fairly racy, so be aware if you are ordering for someone younger.
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| Noah's ARC delivers on many levels |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This series has been roundly praised for being grounding breaking and at the same time critized harshly for it's bad acting, poor production values, and un believable story lines. While all of the above is true the point is we love and can relate to these charcters on many levels and isn't that the point in the first place. Each week for two far to short seasons we fell in love with Noah, Wade, Chance, Ricky, et al. Watch these two seasons of DVD's and laugh, cry, root for, and fall in love with these characters all over again. If you watch the episodes with the audio commenatry you should be warned that the actors, most of whom aren't in the episode they are commenting on really is just banter and sometimes provides really good insight into the scenes but not usually. Two of the Digisodes, one each on the season two DVD with Jensen Atwood (Wade) and Darryl Stephens (Noah) while very heavy handed are nothing short of acting/writing brilliance. The chemistry is unmatched on par with some of the best television has ever produced. ENJOY because now all we have are the DVD's and the upcoming movie. Noah's Arc - The Complete First Season
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| Too sweeeeeet soup story |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Time runs fast, and changes in society are event faster as a story of four friends from non-white American background, their relations, interactions and sexual preferences became a multi-segment-continuing hit in the USA and internationally.
Inclusion of rehearsals and interviews allows suggestion that actors were change through this work to some extent personally, visually.
Although Boy Cultureand Dante's Cove - Season 3, for instance, depict more broad variety of Americans screened -and iconic Queer as Folk - The Complete Seriesdoes surely,- this sometimes too sweeeeeet soup story is a funny family viewing, nice music surrounded with, reflecting a realistic reality of race-influence not in the modern US only.
Perhaps, in this case for sure, "Same Gender Affairs" is a more suitable labeling than a "Gay Movies" used recently if classifying films on gender issues at all, as even much more porno-explicit pictures target and find a broad auditorium worldwide.
Let's see further news of the friends.
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| Fabulous series |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This was a fabulous series! I can't wait for the movie. The characters were well developed and the storylines were great. I really enjoyed. People from all walks of life will be entertained by this DVD.
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