Customer Reviews
Top NOTCH TV 
2008-07-19
This is in another league for TV......
This is more like high quality BIG screen stuff.
Way way better than most box office smash big screen hits!!!!!!!!
BUY IT!!!!!!!!!!
This is acting and writing at its best
Self-interest, corruption, polititcs, and greed! 2008-07-06
This is a really great TV series and I really enjoyed the many twists that kept me guessing throughout the episodes--and guessing wrong most of the time. I've always wanted to be a lawyer, among many other professions, and I immediately picked up this series upon seeing it at the Duty Free shop at Heathrow International Airport.
This series exposes the world of litigations, and how they operate. The whole season is about a class action lawsuit targeting one of the wealthiest CEOs (Chief Executive Officer). When lawyers try to win at all cost, lives and fortunes are lost. Is it worth it all? Are lawyers angels or demons in disguise? How far would we go for money? Is money worth destroying the lives of others? Are secrets worth killing for? Would we kill for money? How much money is enough? What is the price of betrayal, and when is betrayal ethical? These are just a few of the questions you will be asking yourself as you go through this series.
The way the series is structured is that it shifts between past events and future ones. I did find this system to be confusing at times, but it does have its merits.
This is a fast paced series. The acting is superb and the episodes are very well written and believable. The ending is spectacular, and unanticipated. I can't wait for season two.
it will do Damage 2008-06-11
to your sleeping time. The show is very addictive and intriguing as it keeps you into it throughout every episode. Of course we have Glenn Close playing as a top notch, take no prisoners and ruthless attorney defending people that were swindled out of their pensions and savings from the corrupt boss played by Ted Danson. Who also does a wonderful job is his role. As does the new attorney played by Rose Byrne who starts out as a wide eyed, the world is wonderful person. But by season end so many things will happen to her that will change not only her views. But her very way of life as well.
An excellent show and an well written and directed first season. There are so many other characters in the show that do their thing acting as well. Well worth your buying but rent a couple episodes first to make sure this show is your cup of tea. Really looking forward to the next season of Damages without a doubt.
Compelling Series On Seldom Watched FX channel 2008-05-28
I have watched some shows on the FX channel "Rescue Me" "Dirt" "Nip/Tuck" "The Shield" and all of these shows are quality shows, but it is "Damages" that really is the gem of the channel's growing fame. Glenn Close is in a somewhat familiar role as 'devil in a dress' and Ted Danson is brilliant as the embattled CEO of a failed company (see: Ken Lay, ENRON). The lovely and understated Rose Byrne is a perfect counter to a dominant Glen Close. "Damages" is a legal thriller that we find you carving up your free time into 42min units because like a really good cookie one episode is never enough. That's the best reason to buy the box set. I can't imagine the torture of having to wait 167 hours each week for the next epsiode. I'm ready for season 2.
Just barelty entertainment 
2008-05-21
Damages is yet another example of a new trend in movie and tv series making: endless and unrealistic layers of conspiracy on conspiracy that become so thick and unbelievable, that instead of engaging the audience even more, they care less and less. The more unpredictable the show tries to be, the more predictable it becomes.
I do give credit to the format, the story essentially being told backwards slowly revealing details and keeping the watcher on edge, however the extent of cover-ups, double crosses, conspiracy and more that build up go from suspenseful to just plain amusing.
In the end, the show is just barely worth your while and solely as entertainment, not quality television.
Situation Unlikely, but Great Suspense! 2008-04-24
Set in New York s world of high stakes litigation Damages follows the lives of Patty Hewes (Glenn Close) the nation s most revered and most reviled litigator and her bright ambitious prot g e Ellen Parsons (Rose Byrne) as they become embroiled in a class action lawsuit targeting Arthur Frobisher (Ted Danson) one of the country s wealthiest CEOs. As Patty battles Frobisher and his attorney Ellen learns what it takes to win at all costs and that lives not just fortunes are at stake.System Requirements:Run Time: 581 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 043396244412 Manufacturer No: 24441
One Of The best 2008-04-05
a great Great saison for that serie ! hope there will be a second one sincerely. Glenn close is an Huge actess, Rose Byrne too. The intrigue is subtile and fascinating. Two thumbs up !
forensic buff 2008-04-05
I give it 5 stars only for the acting. I watched a couple of the series but the is bruttle. Close plays the part well. I guess it will have to grow on me, but as present I won't be getting the next set.
The Best Series to Hit T.V. Since L.A. Law!!! 2008-04-04
I'm a legal secretary, so most of the time I take a pretty dim view of televised law shows because they are so fictionalized. Now I'm not saying Damages depicts all medium-to-large boutique firms out there, but based on my experience and some of the legal professionals I've worked with, it can hit pretty close to the mark. Regardless of its believability, this show is just damned entertaining. I'm an avid fan and can hardly wait until next season to find out why the Feds are investigating the female version of Pacino in "The Devil's Advocate", Ms. Patty Hewes.
Storytelling 
2008-03-14
This serie isn't about class action or struggle for power or ambitious characters or anything like that. It's about how a rather simple (simplistic ?) linear story can keep you hung up by a sophisticated, manipulative construction with constant switches between the past and the present, how isolated slices of dialogs and appearence of minor characters can modify your perception of the ins & outs of the main story... Some twists are quite hard to swallow (the 175 millions offer for example), and once you finally understand what really happened and who did what, you finally realize how you've been manipulated from the beginning and if it was really worth keeping brainstorming about it... Finally you realize that this serie is rather a metaphor on how TV networks, websites and other modern media can manipulate audiences by telling rather dull stories in sophisticated & manipulative ways...
