The Bottom Line
Pros
- Cool bonus features including deleted scenes and gag reel
- Podcasts involve both actors and show producers
Cons
- Not all episodes are podcasted
- Hope you like the 'Eureka' theme!
Description
- The choice of podcasters is interesting: "Try Try Again," for example, features Colin Ferguson and Neil Grayston (Fargo).
- "Happenings Around Town" gives insight from the actors about the differences between season 1 and 2 from their perspective.
- The gag reel (5:45) is substantial and edited to be fairly fun (I've seen a few that aren't).
- "Inside the Writers' Room" provides some background on the shift in focus toward longer storylines and spreading the focus.
Guide Review - 'Eureka' - Season 2 DVD
Season 2 of Eureka has received some criticism for being too dark, at least for such a ostensibly frothy show; never have its roots in serious "dramedies" like Northern Exposure and The X-Files been clearer than in the long-burning grudge being nursed by Henry over Kim's death, his nonreciprocal wiping of Jack's memory of the alternate future, Nathan's relentless research into Kevin's link with the Artifact, the tension when Jack's ex-wife arrives and wants to take Zoe, and the incarceration of conspirator Beverly in a dank warehouse cell while she's pumped for information. What happened to the goofy scientists, wacky citizens, and eerily precocious teenagers? Certainly Sci Fi was uneasy enough to promise season 3 would be lighter and more fun.
But watched together season 2 hangs together. The dark edge has a payoff when Henry seems to have switched sides by the season climax, helping Beverly kidnap Kevin: Henry has shown himself to be so conflicted we don't know what to believe. And the characters in the show are better as grounded real people with strange things happening around them.
