Product: The Fresh Prince of Bel Air: The Complete Sixth Season (2011)
Rating: 3.0
Buy this only to complete your Fresh Prince collection
I'll get right to the point: there are only two episodes from this entire season that really stand out. One is the two-part "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do", where Vivian mulls a separation from Philip; and the other is "Not With My Cousin, You Don't", where Ashley's boyfriend Derek (Jaleel White) tries to convince her to lose her virginity. The rest of the season's episodes seemed like they were based on storylines that were left over from previous seasons (especially the season's opener, "Burnin' Down the House" -- and why was Carlton still going to camp at that age?). The writers even tried to give Ashley a pair of transparent friends to hang out with (kinda likethe last season of the Cosby Showwhen the writers set Rudy up with Susan and Danielle).Another thing about this season is that it relied too much on style over substance; "style" being celebrity cameos (Chris Rock in "Get a Job"; William Shatner in "Eye, Tooth"). There's nothing necessarily wrong with that per se, but the cameos were so blatant: the guest star would walk into a previously empty room, which would be the cue for the audience to applaud (and the audience never did).But now that I think about it, the final episode was pretty good too, especially when Will was saying goodbye to Geoffrey. Still, since Will Smith was moving on to bigger and better things by the time 1995 rolled around, it seemed like he didn't have his heart in the show any more. I don't think this season will be released any time soon (if at all), but if it does happen, as I said before, only get it to make your Fresh Prince of Bel-Air collection complete.Anthony Rupert