Popula 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!

uslawgal Slings and Arrows is one of a handful of series or films I deem worthy of 10 stars. Although the series has been concluded (and rather well, in my opinion), we can perhaps hope that we will see more from all who were involved in the production.I'm pleased Slings and Arrows found a home in the U.S. on the Sundance Channel. Our PBS channels have a long history of importing British productions, but we have seen very little of the original programming from Canada. Our U.S. networks and cable channels CAN make space for quality productions from our NAFTA friends and others around the globe -- if more of them will live up to their promise and stop reverting to reality shows, reruns of U.S. series, or clones of Law & Order.

cbwaldenwood 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.

williamwolfe Intelligent, witty, insightful writing that each and every actor clearly loves having the chance to deliver. Fully-rounded, complex characters, examined with insight and empathy. A deep love and rich understanding of life in the theater, with all its excitement and pitfalls. Perfectly paced, with a pleasing balance between comedy and drama. It's so rare to see a work that treats its subject, characters, actors, and audience with so much respect. Very few shows have made me care so much about how everything would turn out, or left me so satisfied at the final fade-out. This is one I look forward to seeing again and again.