Torchwood - The Complete Second Season

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Actor: Burn Gorman, Eve Myles, Gareth David-Lloyd, John Barrowman, Naoko Mori
Brand: Warner Brothers
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 628 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-09-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: BBC Warner

DVD Reviews of Torchwood - The Complete Second Season

DVD Review: Better than Season 1
Summary: 5 Stars

The plots are better, more cohesive, and the character development in this season is superb. Definitely worth it.

DVD Review: Interesting show but may have to grow on you
Summary: 4 Stars

I started watching Torchwood because the main character Captain Jack was in a few Doctor Who episodes. I liked his character enough that I decided to give this show a chance. I'm glad I did as it does have some interesting moments.

If you like sci-fi and are a fan of other BBC TV series then I recommend you give this series a chance.

DVD Review: I gave it a shot
Summary: 3 Stars

I watched for Captain Jack as he was excellent in Doctor Who. This strength is also a weakness of the show I find this is partially a matter of construction there are really no grand sweeping story arches but what you have here is a very "villain of the week" type of show.

Sometimes this does work in the show's favor like when James Marsters shows up for two episodes as an ex partner/lover of Jack's but most of the time this approach doesn't work. My other problem with the show is that while Jack is wonderful I could not try as I might bring myself to care about Captain Jack and Merry Men (and ladies) as much as they try to built the characters through character development to my ears all the characters (minus Jack and Gwen) ever manage to do is whine.

Although on the other hand having Jack and Gwen solving mysteries on their own like Doctor Who would be a very copycat thing to do.

Overall-While the season does improve and there are moments of brilliance these mostly occur when Captain Jack is flying solo.

DVD Review: Torchwood S2
Summary: 5 Stars

Well worth your money! Won't spoil rest for you! writteen well. worth your money.

DVD Review: 'Can't Stop Watching' TV
Summary: 5 Stars

Excellent TV. Torchwood Season 2 is one of those 'can't stop watching till your done' series. The creative team have put in more character development that will have you breathless and leave you in tears by the end of the season. While each episode has an alien causing choas, it also gives you more details into each character, climaxing in the final two episodes where we find out how everyone came to be in Torchwood and how closely knit they really are as a team, as friends, as companions.

The performances are top notch in this season. The storylines are funny, yet sad at the same time. Pick this up. If you liked the first season at all, you'll want to see this season. It's made a mark in my mind, and I think it will in yours, too.

Description of 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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