Tru Calling - The Complete Second Season
by Dan Lerner, Guy Norman Bee, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Michael Katleman, Rick Rosenthal
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Actor: Eliza Dushku, Jason Priestley, Liz Vassey, Shawn Reaves, Zach GalifianakisDirector: Dan Lerner, Guy Norman Bee, Jesús Salvador Treviño, Michael Katleman, Rick Rosenthal
Brand: FOX
Writer: Doris Egan
Writer: Jane Espenson
Writer: Jon Harmon Feldman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language); English (Dubbed)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.78:1
Running Time: 264 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-11-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Tru Calling - The Complete Second Season
DVD Review: If Only We Could Go Back And Save This Show
Summary: 5 Stars
I guess that I should be thankning FOX for even producing these six episodes, let alone airing and releasing them. At the end of the first season, ratings were low, and I, along with all the other Tru Calling fans out there, were sure that it would be cancelled. But it wasn't. FOX decided to give the struggling show a second chance now that Friends (which aired at the same time) was ending. However, after only six episodes were produced, FOX decided to pull the plug, and put on a different show instead. Months later, after the show was cancelled due to poor ratings, the network decided to fill the timeslot by airing these episodes.
Anyway, Luc (Matthew Bomer) has been dead for a few months now. Tru (Eliza Dushku), Harrison (Shawn Reaves), and Davis (Zach Galifianakis) have continued to work together in order to save the lives of people who post-mortemly ask Tru for help. And Jack (Jason Priestly), who is Tru's opposite, is nowhere to be found. Jack tries to make sure that the bodies that ask for Tru's help stay dead when both of their days rewind. Anyway, Harrison has given up his old life of gambling and scamming, and has chosen to go straight in life with a normal job. Soon, Tru and Harrison's father Richard Davies (Cotter Smith), who was last seen working with Jack against his children, has moved back into the city where they live (still unnamed) in order to "get closer to his kids". He even offers Harrison a job at his law firm. Around the same time as Richard's arrival comes Jack's return, and the game is on again.
Jack indirectly caused the death of Tru's old boyfriend Luc, which has caused their already bitter relationship to escalate to new levels of hatred. Each member of Tru's team brings something different to the table; Tru has some detective skills, Harrison has certain connections, and Davis is the overall brains of the group. Jack has his own team, including Richard and Dr. Carrie Allen (Liz Vassey), who acts as a mole within Tru's group.
This year, however, Tru must also deal with medical school. Davis pulled some strings which allowed her to audit med school classes this year, so when she isn't saving people's lives, she's studying to become a doctor. With her old friend Lindsay (A.J. Cook) in Europe with her new husband, Tru makes new friends with fellow students Avery (Lizzy Caplan), Tyler (Parry Shen), and Jensen (Eric Christian Olsen), who begins to take Luc's place in her heart.
Stories this year were formatted slightly differently than last year. In Season 1, the rewind usually didn't occur until the end of the first act of the episode. This year, about half of the rewinds happened at that point of the episode, while the other half occured at the end of the teaser, making the rewind day's time in the episode significantly longer than the "Day 1" portion. Also, throughout most of S1, Tru only had to work against time and skepticism. Now she has Jack to compete with, and he firmly believes in what he is doing. I see him as a bit of a misunderstood character. While Tru is clearly the protagonist and the hero, I don't think that it's right to call Jack a villain. He just has a different point of view than Tru does. While Tru thinks that the bodies who ask for her help weren't supposed to die, Jack believes that they were, and are trying to cheat fate, and when fate is messed with, there are dire consequences.
Sadly, we never get to see those consequences pan out, and from what I've found online, one of them is a real doozy (although, it occurs because Tru breaks a major rule). There were so many good storylines going when the show ended: What will Tru and Harrison do when they find out the truth about their father? What will Davis do when he finds out he's being played? What happened to a certain character after Tru wrongfully saved him? Who is right, Jack or Tru? Sadly, we may never get these answers.
While S1 was very good, these episodes were superior in most ways. The cast was trimmed down to the essentials (the third Davies sibling was nowhere to be seen this year), the actors were getting comfortable with their roles, and the stories were getting a lot better. It's too bad that this show was cancelled. With any luck, there will be some sort of movie, similar to Firefly/Serenity, but it's a longshot. At least what we got was great.
Description of Tru Calling - The Complete Second Season
2-Disc Collector?s Edition Contains All 6 Season Two Episodes!It?s been two months since Tru and Jack last met in a deadly confrontation in which Tru saved the life of her brother, but she was ultimately thwarted when Jack evened the score by taking the life of her boyfriend. After that night, Jack disappeared?but now he?s back with a vengeance. His renewed efforts to make sure the dead stay dead only make Tru more determined to carry on her murdered mother?s legacy of saving those who die before their time. But also back in town is Tru?s estranged father who, although claiming he wants to forge new relationships with his son and daughter, has his own secret agenda which is anything but fatherly in intent.
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