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For other uses, see Felicity (disambiguation).
Felicity was an American television series that revolved around the fictional college experiences of the title character, Felicity Porter, as she attended the "University of New York," based on New York University, across the country from her home of Palo Alto, California. The series ran for four seasons from 1998 to 2002, with each season roughly corresponding to the traditional freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior years students attend at universities. The series was created by J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, notable guest directors included Brian Grazer and Ron Howard. It originally ran on the WB Network. A recurring episode opener of the show was a stark camera shot of Felicity sitting in a dorm room or apartment holding a tape recorder, recalling events in order to make a cassette tape to send to an old friend named Sally Reardon (voiced by Janeane Garofalo). This occasionally provided a method for Felicity to narrate an entire episode. At the end of episodes like this, Felicity would often be shown listening to a tape Sally sent in reply. This was a staple of early episodes, but became less frequent as the series went on.
Main CharactersFelicity PorterPlayed by Keri Russell. Felicity is the main character of the show. She initially began in the series as an intelligent yet naive girl. Later as the show progresses, she learns to stick up for herself and adapt to life's changes. An only child, her father expects her to follow his dreams for her, of becoming a doctor like him. Out of all of her friends, she has the softest heart, often offering help and advice whenever needed. As a result, many of her friends feel a need to protect her from harm. Throughout the show she finds herself in difficult dilemmas. As a result, she matures with each passing season. She enjoys art work and seriously considers making a living with it. Ben CovingtonPlayed by Scott Speedman. Ben is the initial reason Felicty moves to New York. Like Felicity he moved from Palo Alto, Ca to New York. His home life is complex. While his father (played by John Ritter) is an alcoholic and continually makes promises only to break them, his mother continues to stay with him. Ben has difficulty expressing his feelings, especially in regards to his relationship with Felicity. Though quiet and thoughtful, he often makes hasty or detrimental decisions that he later regrets. He swims, runs and plays basketball. Noel CranePlayed by Scott Foley. Noel first appeared in the show as Felicity's Resident Assistant. At first sight, Noel immediately became smitten with Felicity and pursued a relationship with her, despite the fact that he wasn't allowed to according to Resident Assistant rules. He has the most normal home life out of all of his friends, and only appears to display weakness when it comes to women, particularly Felicity. When Felicity suffers emotional traumas or questions her inability to perform certain tasks, he is always there to help and comfort her. He often works with computers and frequently uses his knowledge of them to help others. Julie Emrick
Elena TylerPlayed by Tangi Miller. Elena is Felicity's first lab partner. She is fiercely competitive and has no problem expressing her anger. Although she is at first, confused by Felicity's uninhibited kindess she later embraces it. They become close friends and take care of one another. Her dreams of becoming a doctor mostly occupies her time. Meghan RotundiPlayed by Amanda Foreman. Meghan is Felicity's first roommate during her dorm days. She is a goth wiccan with little care for what many think of her. Initially she and Felicity fail to see eye-to-eye on various situations. However, Meghan later finds herself softening up her hardcore personality, and even forming a close friendship with Felicity. Besides performing spells, Meghan does her best to defend Felicity at every opportunity while creating long and drawn out arguments with Sean. Sean BlumbergPlayed by Greg Grunberg. Sean is Ben's first roommate. He owns a studio apartment and is the second oldest of all the friends. He is talkative and friendly. He comes from a family of inventors and is constantly proposing and testing out new ideas to friends and strangers. Javier Clemente QuintataPlayed by Ian Gomez. Javier is Felicity and Ben's manager at Dean & DeLuca's, a coffee shop. He is openly gay and forward. The oldest of the friends. Though nosy, he always butts in with the best of intentions and forces those around him to listen to his words of advice. He can be counted on to lighten up the mood and help his close friends. Richard CoadPlayed by Rob Benedict. Richard lived on the same floor as Felicity, Julie, Elena, and Noel in the first season. He is annoying, meddlesome and crude. At the beginning of the show, he blackmailed Noel by threatening to expose his relationship with Felicty. Later on, he and Noel become close friends. PlotsSpoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.
Image:Felicity opening.jpg Felicity Porter explored New York City in Felicity Upon arriving in New York, Felicity discovers that her ideas were rather misguided. Ben has a girlfriend and apparently did not actually have strong feelings for Felicity (he has difficulty remembering her name when they first see each other). While Felicity works to sort out her emotions, she continues the basic motions of student life and moves into her dorm. There, she meets the resident advisor Noel Crane (Scott Foley). Eventually, romantic involvements ensue, and the relationships between Felicity, Ben, and Noel form the basic dramatic conflicts in the show and continue until the end of the series. A number of other characters appear throughout the series. Felicity's college roommate for the first two years is Meghan Rotundi (Amanda Foreman), a goth Wiccan who occasionally casts spells on her for good or evil. Julie Emrick (Amy Jo Johnson) is one of Felicity's best friends for three seasons, as is Elena Tyler (Tangi Miller), who often takes classes with Felicity. Felicity has male friends, including Sean Blumberg (Greg Grunberg), who is always trying to produce new off-kilter inventions, and Javier Quintata (Ian Gomez), who manages the coffee house Dean & DeLuca where Felicity works for most of the time she is in college. John Ritter also guest stars on the show as Ben's father, and Jennifer Garner made two appearances in the first season and one in the fourth as Hannah Bibb, Noel's ex-girlfriend. Ratings controversyThe show's ratings declined in the 1999–2000 season. Executives at the WB blamed this partly on a new hairstyle by the show's star. Known for long and curly locks, Russell went along with the producers' idea that she snip her hair short early on in the second year after her character had a rough breakup with Ben. The network was bombarded with letters and e-mails from fans, who stated that they hated the haircut and they didn't recognize the title character anymore. WB network executive Susanne Daniels said in early 2000, "Nobody is cutting their hair again on this network." In reality, the network didn't become that strict, but new policies were enacted requiring hairstyle changes to be approved by management [1]. Russell herself was surprised at the reaction, later stating:" People still take it really personally. They come up to me at breakfast places like, 'When are you growing your hair back?' ". The ratings drop also coincided with the show's move to Sunday night, so it is unclear exactly how much effect the hairstyle change actually had. Trivia
1998 (Episode #8, The Buying Game) GRACE: [TO WILL] And I was at Bloomingdale's this morning waiting in line to buy wrinkle cream, and this Jennifer-Love-Michelle-Sarah-Felicity looking thing bumps into me and says, 'Excuse me, ma'am'. 2001 (Episode #70, Crouching Father, Hidden Husband) GRACE: [TO THE GIRLS] Don't worry. I know what you guys are going through, and I can promise it's not always gonna be this hard. I'd like to tell you the story of a plucky young girl who went through the hell of adolescence, came out the other side stronger, self-possessed, with a damn good head of hair, if I do say so myself. GIRL #1: Felicity? GRACE: No, you weirdo! Me!
DVD ReleasesThe DVDs were released over a period of four years by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. They have been criticized for a few reasons, most notably because the soundtrack includes different music than the TV version. Some of the songs were changed, reportedly because high licensing costs would bring up the price of the box sets. On a technical level, some episodes did not have proper telecine encoding, so viewers using HDTVs could sometimes see interlacing artifacts (though this problem can be mitigated in a few ways). The yearly sets are listed below with their American release dates.
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