It's the same small town but the hidden secrets are even bigger in the city of Eureka when it returns to DVD with Eureka: Season Two! The 3-disc DVD set includes every episode from season two plus over 10 hours of behind-the-scenes extras. Discover the mysteriously-surreal, quirky series when Eureka: Season Two appears on DVD!
Plenty of new television series need a season or two to sort themselves out, and as this three-disc, 13-episode (plus bonus features) box set from the second season (2007) reveals, the Sci-Fi Channel's Eureka is still a work in progress--which is not a bad thing, considering that it's one of the more provocative and ambitious shows out there. For the uninitiated, here's the basic premise: Sheriff Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson), accompanied by his teenage daughter Zoe (Jordan Hinson), is stationed in Eureka, a picturesque little burg somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. Eureka is hardly Anytown, USA; indeed, this is the place where "the world's greatest thinkers" live and work, most of them at Global Dynamics, "the most advanced scientific facility in the world." It's also a place where exceedingly strange things happen on a regular basis. In Season Two, those happenings include people spontaneously combusting, becoming invisible, turning into gold, or simply disappearing (and leaving nothing behind--not even a memory that they ever existed); a "personal force field" that's growing so large and so fast that it will soon engulf the whole town, and maybe even the whole world; freaky weather that changes by the moment; and even an experiment to re-create the Big Bang inside a Global Dynamics lab, leading to some unexpected side effects.
These developments are all presented with enough cool special effects and scientific techno-babble to make Eureka a perfectly viable and sometimes quite dramatic science fiction diversion. But there's more--much more. Sometimes this is a show about relationships: Jack and Zoe (custody becomes an issue when Jack's ex, played by Olivia D'Abo, shows up in the early episodes); Jack and Allison Blake (Salli Richardson), Global Dynamics' new boss (their growing attraction is complicated by the continued presence of her ex, a genius scientist type); Jack and his pal Henry (Joe Morton), who blames Jack for his girlfriend's death but gradually learns there's more to it than that. Much of the time it's a comedy, heavy on the quirks; and, in a change from the first year, it's also a serial, with several story arcs continuing over the course of the season. All of that can make Eureka a but convoluted and hard to get a handle on, but this show is a keeper. Extensive bonus features include deleted scenes, gag reels, podcast commentaries, and a good deal more. --Sam Graham
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0
Eureka Season 2:
I love Eureka...I only started watching the third season, so I wanted to catch up and these seasons were a great, affordable way to do so!
Found their stride:
The first season set the scene, but they really found their footing in the second season. Totally worth it!
Great SF...and funny too.:
A really good Science Fiction is hard to find. There has to be enough "possible" in it to make it hold together. There has to be enough "wierdness" in it to excite the imagination. EUREKA succeeds on both counts. The Sheriff and his daughter were outsiders who fell into the job so every day is totally new to him. But it is the comedy that really makes it flow. I own Season One and now Season Two. I intend to buy Season Three if the Producers ever come to their senses and sell it as a whole instead of Part 1... more info
Fresh, original, and funny:
There are very few things on modern tv that are actually worth the effort to turn on the boob tube, but Eureka is one of the few.
Take one part science fiction, one part cop show, and one part comedy. Shake well in a test tube and you get Eureka.
The show revolves around the town sheriff. He`s pretty much an average Joe. Just happens to be the sheriff in a town filled with
the smartest people on the planet. But one of the first things he has learned in this job is that a high I.Q. is no... more info
