Eureka: Season 3.0
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Actor: Colin Ferguson, Joe MortonBrand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language)
Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 349 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-06-30
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Universal Studios
DVD Reviews of Eureka: Season 3.0
DVD Review: "Plastic tubes and pots and pans, bits and pieces and magic from the hand. We're makin'... weird science."
Summary: 4 Stars
Because I always say: When you can't think of a punchy review title, go 'head and quote those Danny Elfman lyrics.
Hidden somewhere in the Pacific Northwest is the remote (and top secret) tiny town of Eureka, home to America's most brilliant and eccentric scientists, all of whom are poking a curious collective finger into the mysteries of the universe. In Eureka, first impressions play false. A 9-year-old girl, for her school project, creates a dwarf star. The maintenance guy is the guy who maintains time. The dry cleaning woman once conducted research on invisibility (okay, this last one's from Season 2). Sheriff Jack Carter, who comes across as just regular folks, doesn't have the smarts to match Eureka's high-IQ'd populace, but he does have a knack for keeping the peace and digging up world-shattering secrets and for saving the day time and again. A single dad, Jack even finds time to raise his precocious 17-year-old daughter Zoe.
Like it or not, EUREKA - SEASON 3.0 collects only the first eight episodes of the third season, but that's still enough to keep Sheriff Carter up to his neck in busy. Maybe the most significant thing to happen early on is the arrival of Eva Thorne a.k.a. the Fixer. Thorne is a corporate performance evaluator and she's come to make Global Dynamics more cost-effective. This translates to the scrapping of the more unproductive projects at G.D. and also to staff downsizing. The word "redacted" is used so many times, you could launch a drinking game off it. And with stats indicating that incidents have only spiked since Jack's arrival, Thorne doesn't think much of the town Sheriff. And needless to say, the Fixer is nursing a hidden agenda which factors in Eureka's past, a sprawling underground complex 'neath the town, and also a mysterious purply substance called "Element X." That there is our thru-storyline for these eight episodes.
Catching up with our cast: The love triangle is just about winding down, what with Jack stepping aside gracefully as Allison and Nathan plan for their wedding. Henry Deacon, incarcerated for about three minutes, is simply too valuable to languish behind bars, and he's soon back in Eureka, all pardoned and, we assume, back to his good guy ways. Zoe gets a job at Cafe Diem, and it's really nice to see how she's developed into a normal teenager. Eureka is truly her home now.
The show's writers are really brilliant at making the hard science accessible enough to the viewers. They're also very good at injecting that cool sci-fi/fantasy element. Strong storytelling aside, Sheriff Carter is the key ingredient, acting as our surrogate eyes and pretty much behaving as we of average intellect would when some big brain is trying to explain away the science mumbo jumbo. Jack usually responds with a befuddled look or a remark like: "I'm sure I'd be impressed if I knew what that meant." And I love that.
Sheriff Jack Carter's case files are a bit more bizarre and challenging than just nabbing two good ol' boys driving a rebel red Dodge Charger or a truck driver and his chimpanzee (if you know your '80s shows). If Jack were to list his outlandish job experiences in Eureka on some future resume, his prospective employer would, well, call security. Where else can a Sheriff investigate a locked room mystery in a sealed bio-sphere? Or end up living the same day over and over? Or go up against a sentient robot attack drone... named Martha? Or receive an unwanted assist from a bumbling superhero called Captain Eureka? And, really, Pharaohpalooza? And Best In Show for robot dogs? And that's not even half of the mad science that greets Jack in these first eight episodes. The poor residents of Eureka are forced to evacuate so many times they must have perpetual whiplash.
What else? Putting a crimp in Jack's family life, his exasperating hippie sister, Lexy, shows up. Eureka gets a new mayor, and it's not Zoe's 17-year-old boyfriend (who did campaign for the job). And a central character dies. Episode 8 - "From Fear to Eternity" - reveals the mystery behind Eva Thorne, and is anyone at all surprised that there's a doomsday device in the equation? This isn't even half the season over.
One sort of misses the tame days when the enigmatic Artifact was the big McGuffin. (And, oh yeah, whatever happened to the Artifact?) Maybe we find out in Season 3.5. And maybe we don't. In Eureka, expect the unexpected.
Sarah, the Carters' sassy smart house, continues to be one of my favorite characters.
Bonus stuff: Audio Commentary on "Bad to the Drone" (with executive producer Jaime Paglia and Visual Effects Producer Matthew Gore); Podcast Commentaries from this and that producer and writer on 5 episodes ("Bad to the Drone," What About Bob?", "Best in Faux," "I Do Over," and "Show Me the Mummy"); Deleted Scenes for all 8 episodes; and the "Creating A Musical Personality" featurette focusing on the musical scoring of the show (00:18:30 minutes long).
Description of Eureka: Season 3.0
Make a return trip to the seemingly ordinary small town where extraordinary things happen with Eureka 3.0 in Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. Reunite with the town?s hard-working sheriff, Carter (Colin Ferguson), as he tries to deal with his adopted hometown?s unique geniuses, volatile experiments and earth-shaking secrets ? all while trying to raise his feisty teenage daughter on his own. Witty, surprising and full of intriguing mysteries, it?s the innovative SciFi Channel series that explores the fascinating intersections where human dilemmas and super-science collide.Bestsellers in DVD
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