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List Price: $14.95 | | Label: A&E Home Video
Salesrank: 37533
Released: March 27, 2001 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse's immortal characters are brought to glorious life in this hilarious series starring Hugh Laurie as the chinless but charming Bertie Wooster and Stephen Fry as his valet and frequent savior, Jeeves. Superb period detail, performers who seem to have been born for these roles, and a hearty helping of Wodehouse wit make these shows essential viewing for anyone in search of a sophisticated chuckle.
This collection comprises the second season of this delightful show, including the following six episodes: "Jeeves Saves the Cow-Creamer," "A Plan for Gussie," "Pearls Mean Tears," "Jeeves in the Country," "Kidnapped!," and "Jeeves the Matchmaker." --Simon Leake
Jeeves & Wooster - The Complete Second Season Reviews:
jeeves is great! 
2009-05-30 - Jeeves and Wooster are always funny - I found season two just as great as season one. I highly recomend this series!
Wooster and Jeeves DVD 
2009-03-20 - Some people like this show some don't. Any way you put it, it's fun to see Hugh Laurie being a regular constable.
Great stories!
2007-11-30 - This humorous series always makes me wonder... WHY do so many women WANT to be engaged to Bertie Wooster?
Anyways, this is a great series. The scene where the village judge talks about "providing assumed names" is priceless! The costumes, the scenary and the acting all contribute to making this a great program, but of course it is Wodehouse's writing which clinches this as an awesome show (even though some liberty has been taken with his work).
Well worth finding!
Jeeves in the Country 
2007-06-03 - Ah, but the best, the very best part of Jeeves making Bertie's tea at the final scene of "Jeeves in the Country" is the sly Ralph von Williams (Lark Ascending) spin on the theme song in the background. I was laughing hysterically.
As a devoted reader, who was so very reluctant to go to video, I was finally smitten with the rumminess of the medium. What ho! Stephen Fry and the producers won my heart with this scene!
I say!
2005-10-27 - Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry return as the scatterbrained aristocrat and his brainy butler in the second season of "Jeeves and Wooster." The series based on P.G. Wodehouse's classic novels is almost as funny as the books, with the goofy characters and tangled storylines... which are always untangled by Jeeves.
Totleigh Towers is not a friendly place for poor Bertie Wooster. But when he accidently loses his uncle's cow creamer to Sir Watkyn, he finds himself being enlisted to get the creamer back -- except that the thuggish Nazi Spode is going to beat Bertie to a jelly if the creamer goes missing.
More problems arise when Gussie overcomes his timidity by making a notebook full of Spode and Sir Watkyn caricatures. Unfortunately, they come into the hands of blackmailing Stiffy Byng, who wants Watkyn to approve a marriage to the local vicar. And poor Bertie finds himself engaged to two women at once.
Things get even worse away from Totleigh Towers, where Bertie tries to help out a pair of his pals, one poor and one abnormally forgetful. His perpetually in-love pal Bingo falls in love with a tea-shop waittress, only to lose her to an unusual new suitor; and Aunt Agatha's pearls are stolen by a pair of wily thieves.
On a more personal front, Bertie contemplates becoming a dad after seeing a paternally-minded play. And a night at the same hotel as wealthy heiress (and ex-fiancee) Pauline causes her dad to drag Bertie into a wedding with his "disgraced" daughter. The worst part: Pauline is engaged to one of Bertie's chums.
In the technical sense, "Jeeves and Wooster" is not terribly faithful to the books -- short stories are extended, novels are picked apart and reconstructed. But fidelity to the spirit of the books can't be denied. These episodes are as elaborate, madcap, and tastefully bizarre as the books themselves were.
As always, the naive Bertie ends up entangled in multiple engagements, threats and blackmailing schemes. And the characters around him fare no better, like when newt-fancier Gussie (dressed like the devil) is chased away from Totleigh by Spode (a Roman soldier).
Or when Bertie and two of his detractors are arrested for impersonating hobgoblins, or when a policeman's helmet goes missing and Bertie is the instant suspect. The dialogue matches this, with goofy dialogue, about everything from family insanity to the drippy romantic Madeleine (one of Bertie's recurring fiancees).
Hugh Laurie, who is now winning raves in the TV show "House," is wonderfully manic as Bertie, using his expressive face and gangly body like a less demented John Cleese. And Stephen Fry embodies the catlike grace and intelligence that Wodehouse always wrote Jeeves as having. The impeccable hair and ever-present suit don't hurt.
"Jeeves and Wooster" only got stronger in its second season, full of disgraced newt-fanciers, angry Nazis, and stolen helmets. I'm sure P.G. Wodehouse would have been quite proud.
