General Hospital:night Shift (2007)

Product Summary Publisher: Buena Vista Home Video Format: DVD UPC: 00786936753721 Buy.com Sku: 206502852 Item#: V2LW4E Buy.com Sales Rank: 24791 Category Keywords: Cable Original  Cable Tv/Cable Tv Shows  Doctors  Rating: NR   "More Drama, More Sex, More Soap, More Story."     From the creative minds who brought you the Emmy Award-winning daytime drama General Hospital comes the highly anticipated SOAPnet primetime spinoff General Hospital: Night Shift. If you can't get enough of the excitement, schemes and romance of Port Charles during the day, you'll get an even steamier and more intimate look on the night shift. When the sun goes down in Port Charles, matters of life and death grip the hospital. And when the sun rises the next day, nothing is ever the same as the day before -- not for the patients or the doctors. Featuring an all-star cast, including celebrated actor Billy Dee Williams as well as Steve Burton, Kimberly McCullough and Jason Thompson, Night Shift goes to places General Hospital's never gone before. Follow the trials and tribulations of the hospital staff as they cope with drug addiction, parenthood, promiscuity and a host of other personal complications. Their conflicts are heightened by a series of unfortunate "accidents" at the hospital that put everyone's lives at risk. Own every episode of Season One, including a behind-the-scenes peek at your favorite daytime stars, on this three-disc DVD set. Paging all doctors: working the Night Shift at General Hospital is not for the faint of heart.   Editor's Note This prime-time spin-off of the long-running daytime drama follows the night shift at General Hospital--a medical facility known for its love affairs, brain tumors, and amnesia victims. Lending the new soap credibility are a few familiar faces from daytime, including GENERAL HOSPITAL lovebirds Dr. Robin Scorpio (Kimberly McCullough) and Dr. Patrick Drake (Jason Thompson), and the assured presence of Billy Dee Williams, who plays Toussaint Dubois, a sagely hospital custodian with a checkered past. Meanwhile, the cast of dashing doctors, psychotic nurses, and lovelorn patients engage in all the nocturnal machinations one expects of the notorious hospital. As the strange accidents, steamy encounters, and shocking revelations accumulate, the show's seductive mysteries only deepen. But, unlike its daytime doppelganger, NIGHT SHIFT's labyrinthine plotlines are all wrapped up in the series finale. This collection presents all 13 episodes of the first season.   Features Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo Featurette: On The Set At Night Shift Interactive Menus Scene Selection   Technical Info Release Information Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 2/12/2008 Running Time: 530 minutes Original Release Date: 2007 Catalog ID: 5631703 UPC: 00786936753721 Number of Discs: 3 Audio & Video Original Language: English Available Audio Tracks: English Video: Color Aspect Ratio Standard  1.33:1 [4:3]   Cast & Crew Billy Dee Williams Jason Thompson Kimberly McCullough Steve Burton Bill Ludel - Director Elizabeth Korte - Writer Jill Farren-Phelps - Executive Producer Owen Renfroe - Director Robert Guza, Jr. - Writer    Product Image

Unless you feel the strange need to be tortured or nauseated, I would pass on this one. Worst 13 hours I have ever wasted on a television show, period. I have never been more disappointed in a viewing experience in over 25 years of watching soaps. This show was just BAD, on every level. Poorly written shows that made no sense, continued hero worship of the mobster hitman character, weird editing, atrocious acting by newbie cast members, in particular the slutty nurse, Leyla. Disjointed "plots", lame stories, go nowhere and dropped plotlines, and stupid music choices permeated each show. I believe it's only claim to fame is that it was mocked on "The Soup" on E! If you're in the market for annoying clowns, insulting boob jokes, ridiculous rooftop dancing with the hospital staff re-enacting the cafeteria scene from "Fame", the constant humiliation and belittling of a beloved, long time heroine, the wasted talents of Mr. Billy Dee Williams, as well as an ample serving of a forced, contrived, and vomit inducing "pairing" of the "hot" (not deserved for this character on NS) neurosurgeon and his predatory stalker student nurse, as well as racial stereotypes and mocking of serious social issues such as abortion, sex addictions, and HIV, then HEY!! this show IS for you! The only bright spot in the entire series was the performance of Kimberly McCullough as Dr. Robin Scorpio. This two-time Emmy winner managed to rise above the shoddy material she was given to work with, and still make you feel for her character's plight, as she continued to get dumped on more and more with each episode. I love Jason Thompson as Dr. Patrick Drake on GH, but his character was totally destroyed and unrecognizable on Night Shift. He's a fantastic actor, but NO ONE could have risen above how his character was being written, with no character motivation and point of view. Add to that a chemistry-free, awkward, and unwanted new "romance" (gag, and the writing was on the wall for his character. Night Shift was marketed as a vehicle featuring the popular pairing of Robin and Patrick on GH. See them there, on the cover? Aren't they pretty? The producers, head writer and president of the network admitted that they basically had given this couple no airtime or story, despite overwhelming fan response. Fans were baited with promises of romance, hospital drama, sex scenes, and Robin and Patrick front and center. Well, except for a blink-and-you-miss-it 20 second shower scene, none of those things happened. There was some of the most passionless "sex" scenes I've ever seen between Patrick and another character, while Robin was left crying, alone and devastated, on the rooftop. There was an intense medical drama with an HIV+ expectant mother, in which the doctors were of no consequence whatsoever, since the hallowed hitman and his hacker sidekick were there to save the day. There was a dramatic shoot out in the ER, with...guess who? The hitman "hero" to the rescue yet again. Somehow Night Shift managed to be even more offensive and less about the hospital than General Hospital is on a daily basis. That is certainly not a glowing review. Basically, Night Shift was a nightmare. It certainly gave me many of them. Along with headaches, night tremors, and insomnia (Can't sleep. Might flash to gag worthy gurney sex scenes)<Shudders> I need medication just to forget this disaster ever happened. Sorry Kimberly and Jason, no amount of cute behind the scenes special features are worth this torture. I know it wasn't your fault, but NS is the... WORST. SHOW. EVER. :(
 
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The fans of Kimberly and Jason are telling people NOT to buy this DVD. The powers to be lied to the fanbase to suck us in for ratings!! Kimberly was outstanding in her performances and Jason T also BUT Frons and Guza (writer) messed with the fanbase and we stopped watching and the ratings TANKED!!! I hope Kimberly and jason don't agree to a season 2 UNLESS they have in writing that they'll be together and not screw with.
 
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Don't waste your money on this if you are a Robin & Patrick fan! What was touted as a show detailing the the love story between General Hospital's best doctor couple, Robin and Patrick turned into a nightmare. The first episode was edgier and sexier as promised, but the whole series quickly went downhill with bad plots and worse acting by most of the people except for Kimberly McCullough, Jason Thompson, Bradford Anderson, Steve Burton and Billy Dee Williams. We were promised an exploration of the wonderful love story between Robin and Patrick, but we got bait and switch when their relationship broke up in the middle of the season and Patrick quickly moved on with a student nurse. Some love story! Not! The whole show was supposed to be an alternate universe in which people who didn't watch General Hospital during the day could watch Nighshift and not be confused. The characters were the same on both shows, and the plots on NS were separate, but after Nightshift ended its run, its lousy story lines crossed over to General Hospital, bringing with it the second break up of Robin and Patrick and his subsequent fling with a student nurse. Hopefully, there won't be a second season!
 
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