The Game - The First Season DVD Review

[TJ]

It is game time as the hit spin-off series of Girlfriends called The Game comes to DVD for the very first with the first season from CBS Home Entertainment.

Melanie Barnett (Tia Mowry) is a first-year medical school student who has given up an offer of admission to Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore to follow her boyfriend Derwin Davis (Pooch Hall), a professional football player, to San Diego, against the advice of her parents. Derwin Davis is a first-year rookie with a fictional team called the "San Diego Sabers." As Melanie settles into her new life, she meets Tasha Mack (Wendy Raquel Robinson), the mother of Sabers' starting quarterback Malik Wright (Hosea Chanchez), and Kelly Pitts (Brittany Daniel), the wife of Sabers' captain Jason Pitts (Coby Bell). As she learns to balance her new roles as both med student and the partner of a professional football player, Tasha and Kelly immediately warn her to keep a close eye on her boyfriend because of the numerous "gold diggers" who approach the professional football players. Recurring are P.J. Byrne as Irv and Erica Gluck as Brittany Pitts.

Read our review by Pavan here:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/thegameseason1dvdreview.html

Please post any questions or comments about this set.

[roddshire]

Here are some of the songs that CBS Home Entertainment cut from the DVD release and replaced by a generic beat or cut it altogether:

"Backdoor Pilot":
Kayne West - Testify
Young Jeezy; Akon - Sole Survivor
Unknown Artist - I Don't Get The Question

"Rules of the Game": [1-2]:
Omarion - Entourage
Nelly Furtado; Timbaland - Promiscuous

"Rift & Separate" [1-6]:
The White Stripes - My Doorbell [cut scene]

"Mi Casa Es Su Casa" [1-7]:
Maze feat. Frankie Beverly - Happy Feelings

"The Trey Wiggs Fallout Episode" [1-9]:
Mary J. Blige - Not Gon' Cry

"There's No Place Like Home" [1-10]:
The character "Tee Tee" singing Peabo Bryson's "Can You Stop The Rain" [cut scene...which is a shame cause its funny]

"Out of Bounds" [1-15]:
DMX - Slippin' [Cut Scene]
Drew Sidora - Slow It Down [Cut Scene] but they play the song in background scene...strange

"When the Chickens Come Home to Roost, Parts 1 & 2" [1-21/22]:
Eric B & Rakim - I Ain't No Joke
Omarion - Ice Box [But this song was acutally played on the "Girlfriends" - The Seventh Season DVD in their season finale "To Be Determined...Its Been Determined"]...weird
Ne-Yo - Because Of You
BEYONCE- IRREPLACEABLE [CBS SHOULD HAVE REALLY BROUGHT THE RIGHTS TO THIS]

Here's the link to the entire first season:
http://www.youtube.com/user/aight21