Torchwood - The Complete Second Season
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/16/2008 Run time: 585 minutes Rating: Nr
The following are included in the second season of Torchwood: repeated bouts of unrequited love, homicidal ex-lovers, monsters from space and impending doom for major characters. Now, that's how a series' second season should play out! But what makes Russell T. (Doctor Who) Davies' sophomore set of adventure for Torchwood so engaging is that he bundles them together in a tight and cohesive package that remains dramatically involving while maintaining the proper level of science fiction adventure. John Barrowman's Captain Jack Harkness is back, having materialized in the final episode of Doctor Who's third series ("Last of the Time Lords"), and with him comes one of the show's most inventive characters: fellow Time Agent and former lover Captain John Hart, played by Buffy the Vampire Slayer's James Marsters. Hart wreaks considerable havoc in the series opener, "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang," and returns several episodes later in "Fragments" to reveal Harkness' long lost brother Gray, who brings the series to a close in "Exit Wounds" with a horrific rash of violence that rends the Torchwood team permanently asunder. It's a finale that will leave fans agape by the final frame, but it's not the only stunner in the second season. "Reset" should also raise eyebrows with both the introduction of Doctor Who companion Martha Jones (Freema Agyeman) in a three-episode arc, but also the shocking death and resurrection of a Torchwood member. Other highlights include "From Out of the Rain," which introduces one of the series' most intriguing villains, the Ghostmaker, and the alien "Adam," who throws the team into chaos with his power to suggest false memories. But the season's key storyline is the conflict between Jack, his brother Gray, and Captain Hart, which brings emotional heat and weight to the show's complex science and fantasy elements. Extras include all 13 episodes of Torchwood Declassified, the 10-minute companion series which explores elements of each episode, as well as "The Life and Deaths of Captain Jack Harkness," a 22-minute featurette (narrated by Freema Agyeman) about the character's immortal status that includes comments by Barrowman and Davies. Nine minutes of amusing outtakes and 18 minutes of deleted scenes bring this satisfying set to a close. --Paul Gaita
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Torchwood - The Complete Second Season Reviews
Loved to see james Martsers as well. BUY IT. Can wait for next season. The interaction between charachters is fab - lots of emotion in this season.
Torchwood Series Two presents even better scriptwork, more in depth character development, and several deep kidney punches in the storyline, not to mention the magnificent tie ins to Doctor Who really makes this a better season than Season One. The only sad thing is, here in the states, we'll have a long wait for Season Three.
For the most part I liked this series as much as the first one, but I intensely disliked the character die off at the end. I wonder how the third season, rumoured to be just 5 episodes, possibly shown in one week (in the UK), will deal with that.
Excellent series of Torchwood episodes. Excellent. Very dark and violent at times (and filled with homosexual undertones - which we like)., but this balances the humor of dr WHO.
The Torchwood series is incredible. Who, then this is for you. The effects are great, the characters constantly surprise you, and the aliens and monsters are fabulous. If you like science fiction shows like Star Trek and Dr.
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