Two Guys and a Girl: Complete Series

Originally titled Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place, this 1998-2001 sitcom about quirky, attractive young singles in and out of college launched big screen heartthrob Ryan Reynolds and small screen star Nathan Fillion (who joined in the second season). Reynolds plays Berg and Richard Ruccolo is Pete, best friends and roommates in their final years of college (where Berg changes majors as often as he changes clothes), while Traylor Howard costars as their upstairs neighbor Sharon, who has graduated and hates her PR job for a chemical company. The pizza place where Berg and Pete have part-time jobs serves as the social hub of the show for the first couple of seasons. It's also where Sharon meets the love of her life, jukebox repairman and all around good guy Johnny (Fillion). Suzanne Cryer joins the cast in season two as hypercompetitive college student Ashley, who moves into their apartment building and takes her medical residency with Berg. The show shortened its title to Two Guys and a Girl and left the pizza place in season three. This is a typical late-‘90s sitcom featuring neurotic, self-involved young adults fumbling their way through romance and life, with sardonic jokes, insult humor, and plenty of humiliation running through the familiar sitcom tropes. It features charismatic actors delivering snappy dialogue, but apart from the cast it doesn't much stand out from the rest of the TV landscape of its time. Compiling all 81 episodes, extras include alternate endings shot for the finale. A strong optional purchase. (S. Axmaker)