The Walking Dead - Season 2 [DVD]

The second season of the Walking Dead comes to dvd. With all thirteen episodes and a few extras in a four disc set.The show is about a group of characters trying to survive when the world is overrun by Zombies. Although the first episode does begin with a scene designed to bring people up to speed and explain everything you might need to know about the characters and what's going on, you're probably still better off starting with season one.This is based on a long running comic. As those who have read that and who saw season one will know, it follows the comic in some ways but diverges from it greatly in others. Thus those familiar with the comic will never be quite sure what is going to happen, as some things will not play out the way the way they did in that.The season starts with Rick and his group of survivors headed out of the city and looking for somewhere safe. Circumstances force them to take refuge on a farm. Whilst they search for someone. But with tensions in the group getting greater, and with tensions between Rick's people and those on the farm, plus the likelihood of zombie attack whenever they least expect it, the place may turn out to be anything but a safe haven....The episodes are spread across the first three discs. With the extras on the fourth. The first episode runs for sixty minutes. The others for forty.This is a season that takes a while to get going, and does feel as if it has pacing issues at first. The first episode feels a little overlong at sixty minutes. And then not much drama happens in the next few. You can go a while without seeing a zombie. Also you recall that the comic did this storyline in less than six issues. And yet the show takes nearly a whole season on it.But - as per the writer's introduction to the first volume of the comic - this isn't meant to be a zombie action horror show. If you want that, you will be disappointed. It's meant to be a character drama first and foremost. About how Rick grows and changes as a person as a result of this horrifying new world, and the things that he has to do in order to survive.With the emphasis on that, and the resulting character interactions and conflict, this steadily does become very watchable and a show when you will find yourself desperate to know what is going to happen next.All of which comes together for a very memorable seventh episode.With that resolving a few things, the next few episodes then bring in a few new storylines and dilemmas. There can be those when little happens and yet they do move along very nicely because the characters are interacting so well. And most importantly, the show is forcing the viewer to think about the moral dilemmas it raises and what they might do in the same situation.Those wanting zombie action will get what they are looking for in the season finale - which contains a few things that will get the blood racing of those who know the comic - although the music does drown out some of the dialogue at points.A season that, as a whole, could perhaps do with some tightening up pacing wise. And won't please those looking for zombie action. But as a character drama, it's very good television indeed.The dvd has the following language and subtitle options:Languages: English.Subtitles; English.Disc four contains various extras:Deleted scenes from eight different episodes. These can be watched by individual episode or all in a row. The one from the season opener runs for almost ten minutes and forms a totally alternate opening to it. The ones from the other episodes are all quite short, each of them having no more than three to four minutes worth of such scenes in total.These can all be watched with or without a commentary from the executive producer of the show, where he explains why they were cut.There are various featurettes:All the guts inside: About the make up and effects in one key very gory zombie scene.Live or let die: About one of the main characters and the actor who plays them.The meat of the music: about the music of the show.Fire on set: About the location of the season and some of the visuals in the season finale.The ink is alive: In which the creator of the comic talks about the differences between it and the tv show.The sound of the effects: All about the sound effects.In the dead water: about a key scene in an early episode and the actor playing the zombie in it.You could make a killing: about those involved in one key episode late on.She will fight: also about one of the main characters and the person who plays them.The cast on season two: one of those short promo features with clips of a season and of cast members talking about what will happen in it. In generalities rather than specifics.Wardrobe of the Walking Dead; about the costume department putting together what those who play the zombies wear.The shortest of these is three minutes long. The longest is ten minutes long. All bar the cast on season two are very good and well worth a watch. The cast on season two one is just okay because although it's well put together it's not going to tell you anything much unless you've yet to watch the season.The box does promise a feature exclusive to the uk: character profiles. But this is just a short section of single text pages about a handful of the characters.Still, a pretty good season, and a pretty good box set for it.

This isn't a review about the Product, Its about the seller and how good of a job he/she has done. amazing speed in Delivery Service, out of all the years I have been confined to my wheelchair and losing my eyesight Your delivery was very very fast.OK I wIll say 1 thing about the Product and season 2The second season begins with Rick and his group of survivors leaving Atlanta. They decide Fort Benning will be their next destination. Along the way, they encounter a traffic jam of abandoned vehicles on I-85. The group loots several vehicles and, as a large horde of walkers approaches, are forced to hide under the vehicles. Carol's daughter, Sophia, chased away from the camp by two of the remaining walkers, runs off into the woods. Carl is accidentally shot during the initial search. The remaining group deals with interpersonal relationships while various searches for Sophia are performed. Otis, a hunter who shot Carl, leads Rick and Shane to a large, isolated farm owned by a veterinarian named Hershel Greene. The remainder of Rick's group moves to the farm while Carl recovers. The group tries to co-exist alongside Hershel's family, but dangerous secrets and disagreements over leadership cause tensions to rise. Daryl leads the initiative to search for Sophia, and becomes close to Carol as a result. Glenn builds a romantic relationship with Hershel's daughter Maggie and discovers that Hershel's barn is full of walkers, many of whom in life had been Hershel's friends and relatives. When Shane forces the walkers out of the barn and the group opens fire, Sophia appears as one of the undead and Rick shoots her.The bonds of the group are tested in the aftermath of the showdown at the barn. Carol, in her grief, withdraws, as does Daryl, who claims that the group is "broken." Hershel, reacting to what has happened, orders Rick and his group to leave immediately, before disappearing to grieve for his family. Rick and Glenn go searching for Hershel and discover him drinking heavily in a local tavern. After trying to persuade Hershel to return, two other men enter the bar - survivors from another group. They tell Rick that Fort Benning has been overrun and the two men insist on moving onto Hershel's farm, only to be repeatedly turned down by Rick. The situation rapidly turns violent, and there is a brief, bloody gunfight which leaves the two new survivors dead. The dead men's former group quickly finds and opens fire on Rick, Hershel, and Glenn. The noise of the firefight attracts a large horde of walkers, and in their desperation to get away, the other group of survivors leaves Randall, one of their members, behind. Rick cannot stand the thought of leaving him to be killed by walkers, so the three blindfold him and take him to the farm.With the secrecy of the farm possibly compromised, Rick decides to drive Randall into the countryside and abandon him. When a disagreement with Shane botches the plan, Rick decides to bring Randall back for execution instead. Hershel's daughter Beth tries to kill herself in order to escape a seemingly hopeless situation. Carol, done with mourning, and with new resolve, does her best to bring Daryl back into the fold. The group deliberates over Randall's fate and, despite Dale's protests, decides to execute him. Carl is found watching Rick as he prepares to execute Randall. Dale is fatally wounded by a walker on the farm, and Daryl euthanizes him as an act of mercy. After Dale's funeral, the group decides they need to rediscover their humanity. They conduct a search for Randall, whom Shane had secretly released and killed nearby. Daryl and Glenn, who discover that Randall died of a broken neck and was not bitten or scratched by walkers, come to the realization that the dead can reanimate without having previous exposure to the zombies. Shane uses the search for Randall as a ploy to silence Rick, but the plan backfires and Rick is faced with killing Shane. After Shane dies, he reanimates and Carl shoots him in the head.The gunshot attracts a large horde of nearby walkers and Rick and Carl are forced into the barn for safety. They ignite the barn after drawing walkers inside, both to draw attention and to save themselves. In the cumulative battle to save the farm, Jimmy and Patricia are killed, Andrea is left behind, and the RV is lost. Andrea attempts to survive on her own, and is later rescued by a mysterious person, leading chained, armless, walkers.The remaining survivors - Rick, Lori, Carl, Glenn, Daryl, Carol, T-Dog, Maggie, Beth, and Hershel - regroup on the highway, but are forced to make camp due to a shortage of gas. Frustrated, Rick reveals the truth behind Shane's death and what Dr. Jenner whispered to him at the CDC: whatever the plague is, they all carry it and will return as walkers upon death, even if they are not bitten or scratched by a walker. A large prison looms in the distance as the season ends.The second season received generally positive reviews with a score of 80 out of 100 based on 22 reviews on Metacritic.[36] Some critics have been less than enthused with the second season, such as Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly, who now describes the series as "a nighttime soap with occasional appearances by deceased but moving, flesh-rotting, flesh-eating cameo monsters. [...] Every week, it seemed, a passel of folks went out and rooted around for awhile, came back to camp, and everyone lives off the fat of Hershel's land until it was time to go out and search for Sophia again. Occasionally someone reminded Rick they're supposed to be headed for Fort Benning and he gets all huffy about not leaving any child behind. It became a parody of a Samuel Beckett play."[37] Nate Rawlings of Time's online entertainment section noted that "the pace during the first half of this season has been brutally slow. Changes in pace would be fine if the writers had used that time well, which they have not. They've tried to develop individual characters, but each subplot meant to add a layer to a character has been quickly resolved."[38] Other critics such as Scott Wampler of Collider.com recognised the mediocre first half of the season claiming that "there seemed to be a helluva lot of water-treading." However Wampler also distinguished the increased quality of the second half saying "The second-half of the season, on the other hand, seemed far more intense, more interesting, better written.thats all i got to say on that