Just Shoot Me series on disc offers hours of comic relief

What is it? Just Shoot Me, complete series, 148 episodes on 19 discs from Shout! Factory How much? $79.97

When? Now

Sounds violent. It’s not. That’s “shoot” as in “take a picture” not “fire a weapon.”

Intelligent, fiercely independent ( and somewhat self-righteous) writer Maya Gallo (Laura San Giacomo) is in trouble. After she humiliates an anchorwoman during a news broadcast, she’s not only fired, she’s effectively blackballed from the news industry.

Her only choice is to go to her semi- estranged father, Jack Gallo (George Segal), the wealthy owner and publisher of fashion magazine Blush. He offers her a job both to help her and to improve their distant relationship and, even though she thinks the magazine is sexist, pointless and vacuous, she accepts.

Her attitude and the obvious nepotism don’t make it easy for her to fit in with her new co-workers — at least not right away.

Jack’s assistant is the lecherous, sarcastic Dennis Finch (David Spade), who can bounce back and forth between waspishly sharp-tongued and sickeningly obsequious with breakneck speed.

Cynical and talented fashion photographer Elliot DiMauro (Enrico Colantoni) may seem relatively normal, but he also enjoys using his position to get dates with models.

And then there’s Nina Van Horn (Wendie Malick), former supermodel and current fashion editor at the magazine. Pathologically vain and self-centered, she can’t quite let go of her glamorous past or accept the fact that she’s getting older.

Over the course of seven seasons, the series chronicles a wacky work environment with these neurotic, borderline-insane (yet strangely lovable) people.

How is it? This late 1990s-early 2000s sitcom was relatively successful and even if it never reached the ground-breaking or iconic status of contemporaries like Seinfeld, Friends or Will & Grace, it’s still plenty entertaining.

The cast is talented with great chemistry, the writing ranges from pretty good to very sharp and it’s a nice time capsule of traditional 1990s workplace sitcoms.

It is, in short, a fun and funny way to spend 20 (or so) minutes.

Extras? There are commentary tracks on some episodes, a gallery of Blush covers and a half-hour retrospective with the cast and creator Steven Levitan.

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