review: TIL DEATH DO US PART

Navarre Corporation  //  Buy from Amazon.com A series to die for. True life tales of wedded woe. Get out the confetti the wedding cake and the hearse. John Waters (Hairspray Serial Mom Pink Flamingos) stars as the Groom Reaper in Love You To Death the 13-episode half-hour anthology series featuring stories inspired by true crimes involving married couples whose once wedded bliss ends in murder. As presenter and narrator The Groom Reaper he brings his macabre sensibility and wry comedy to a series of dramatised stories which reveal the real life cases of ill-fated relationships what they did why they did it and how they covered it up. Recalling great anthology series like Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Twilight Zone each episode of this dark edgy and unique series has a happy ending John Waters style with the guilty spouse getting caught in a way he/she never expected The synopsis for this series says it all, and you know if Mr. John Waters ("The Groom Reaper" in this case) is involved, it's going to be slightly demented and hugely entertaining... and that it is. While this series would probably benefit from viewing over an extended period of time (6.5 hours of one spouse offing the other can get old after several back-to-back episodes), this is definitely a darkly humorous series, one that appeals to our morbid side. As with any tv series, some episodes are better than others, but overall the entertainment factor holds strong throughout the 13 episodes. It is what it is, and if the summary above appeals to you, you'll like it, and if it doesn't it won't. It's as simple as that. Video Nice, clean, crisp 16x9 anamorphic widescreen transfer. Audio A Dolby stereo mix delivers an equally clean soundtrack for each episode. Extras interviews w/ Waters, creator & executive producers episode introductions by John Waters booklet Closing Thoughts Fun, morbid, entertainment + decent extras = worth a weekend's viewing