I love this movie so much

To me, this movie is perfection.

Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Still growing in cult popularity, all three seasons of the Canadian dark comedy are well worth owning. Set backstage at a mythical Shakespeare Festival, in a mythical Canadian town, New Burbage, this send up and homage to the famous Stratford Festival is a quiet riot. The show's lead actors, like Martha Burns, Paul Gross, Susan Coyne and Stephen Ouimette (who made his Broadway debut in 2010). All have been real-life Stratford players. Gross played Hamlet, and Coyne played Juliet in Stratford productions.This gem delivers the guts and the glory for all involved. Great, television. Give me more of these stories that go... "right through the ages with Shakespeare..." and raise the high water mark for the entire medium of television. As a cure for fevered greed, Hollywood needs to take a seat on the living room couch and shut off the phones to study this one, because, obviously, audiences exist for shows that engage us with real story, three dimensional characters, and rarest of all - resonant dialog. That is dialog that reflects and echoes internal character arc as well as external action. Instead of slapping an audience across our dull-eyed faces with crude jokes, or non-stop violence and gimmickry.Give me more.By the middle of the second series I knew that-hard as it is to choose-my favorite character was the put-upon office, long suffering, manager/secretary, Anna Conroy, played with pitch-perfect sympathy by Susan Coyne; who ends up with most of the responsibility for daily operations at the New Burbage Theater Festival" and is the moral lynch-pin of the entire company. She walked into my hear quietly, slowly, barely noticeable at first, then, Bam! Brava! More! More!

I freely admit I am a drama geek. I love live theatre and backstage tours. My husband religiously go to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. This series captures all those quirks, ups and downs and backstage goofs. A friend recommended the series to us because her actor son recommended it to her. He said it was really true to life. The acting is fabulous. I am not familiar with many of the actors but would like to see more of other things that they are in particularly the main character Geoffrey. The comedy is subtle but laugh out loud funny. There are also so many touching moments. I wish there were more seasons. Anyone know if there is any discussion of returning to it? I agree that to really get the most out of it you do need to know your Shakespeare starting with the title. So watch and enjoy.

I know the comments are full of gushing praise, but this show really is that delightful.The more you know and like Shakespeare, the more there is to see and tease out in the play-within-a-play structure -- but if you're not an expert, just watch it for the fun, behind-the-scenes soap opera of a theater festival in the midst of chaos.Paul Gross is utterly compelling as the off-his-rocker but committed-to-his-craft artistic director, but he is surrounded by a wonderful ensemble, all of whom make the dialogue snap and these characters come to life.Truly a quirky, fun treat of a show.

Go to Amazon.com right now and register your vote for "Slings & Arrows" on DVD! This series has been amazing to watch (it's starting a repeat run on Sundance Channel this Sunday night, Sept.17th) and has reminded me how much I loved Shakespeare long ago. Paul Gross is a wonder to watch and even if you aren't "into" the Bard, you will want to see his performance. All of the performances are top notch and the writing is very real. You can recognize these characters as people you know. The script doesn't allow for easy answers to the questions raised, but gives the characters complexities that I have not seen in a mini-series before. It is smart, well observed and funny as hell! Amazon is looking for "votes" to gage interest in production of a DVD of the first series. I urge you to go there now! You will definitely want to watch this show over and over again.