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Torchwood - The Complete Second Season
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0883929025046
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: BBC Warner
Languages: English (Subtitled), English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Manufacturer: BBC Warner
MPN: 1000039682
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: BBC Warner
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 16, 2008
Running Time: 628 minutes
Studio: BBC Warner
Theatrical Release Date: 2008
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Editorial Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A bit disappointing
This is a much better series than the first one, but the whole idea of getting the DVDs is for the extras, which this is lacking. There are no audio commentaries and very few DVD extras.
Rating: - A not so torchy season
At the risk of incurring vengeance for not giving a gushingly positive review of something everyone loves---if you're looking for an all-purpose word to describe season 2 of Torchwood, try nebulous. Not necessarily the best descriptive going, cloudy and insubstantial was nonetheless the feeling I felt left with after viewing all 13 episodes. Even clouds however, sometimes have their silver linings and this season was not without its moments to remember.
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Rating:  - For its flaws, still unmissable
It's yet another season of "Torchwood", a "Doctor Who" for adults. Now in its 2nd season, we meet a team of professionals who battle aliens and try to protect us from all sorts of cosmic anomalies. Based in Cardiff - centrally located on a rift in time and space - "Torchwood" stands ready to do the job. With plenty of foul language and sexual...um...stuff, you never forget the seriousness of the situation, or the fact that the end of the world never means having to forego a good "snog".
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Rating:  - I'm hooked...
The second season was great at deepening the characters and their relationships. I love this series and can't wait for more.
Rating: - Nice,but....
Where the HELL are the commentaries? Apparently,the UK edition doesn't have them either. Other than that,and the ugly color of the box,this is a very good DVD set.
The outtakes are,of course,the best part. The deleted scenes are ok and the "Declssified" disc is quite entertaining.
A decent,if not perfect,item at a very reasonable price.
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