Eureka: Season 2 [DVD]

Eureka grabbed me right away with the fun, quirky music by Mutato Muzika, and then Bear Mcreary, the same guy who’s done the music on Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, Black Sails, Outlander, Black Mirror, and the list goes on.Season one of Eureka was great. If it had lasted just one season it would be on my list of one season wonder sci-fi shows like Firefly, The Prisoner, UFO, Brisco County, Jr., Eerie, Indiana, Jericho, etc. But it went on, dropping some of the funniest characters, and turned into the Allison Blake show. Nathan Stark, out of there. Beverly Barlowe, out of there. Spencer Martin, out of there. Jim Taggart, out of there.And then they got rid of Zoe Carter! But they had to bring her back for the last season, season five, so they could end the series with a bookend, a mirror image of Zoe and her father driving out of town, passing themselves driving into town, which is how the series began.Even the addition of the Wil Wheaton and Felicia Day characters couldn’t rescue this series after they turned it into the Allison Blake show.When I’m not watching sci-fi and fantasy shows I’m reading sci-fi and fantasy. Authors I like include Douglas Adams, Taylor Anderson, Isaac Asimov, Paolo Bacigalupi, Jack Campbell, Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Earnest Cline, Suzanne Collins, Abe Evergreen, Terry Goodkind, Joe Haldeman, Robert A. Heinlein, Frank Herbert, Hugh Howey, Robert Jordan, George Martin, Larry Niven, Andre Norton, Patrick Rothfuss, Brandon Sanderson, John Scalzi, John Steakley, J.R.R. Tolkien, and Andy Weir.

Can you imagine a community where everyone is a genius? Eureka is a scientific town full of smart people. They don't need a Mensa club in their community because everytime two or more people see each other, the conversation is Mensa quality. Even the sheriff's daughter turns out to be a genius. Only the sheriff, hand-picked to go there, is average. The show is both mysterious and etherial. I'm sure I can come up with a few long words to describe it. Please give this show a chance, after a few episodes, you'll hook yourself.The second season is just as good as the first, and all the characters have had their chances to grow. The sheriff is constantly trying to solve problems that seem to seek him out every day, while some of the scientists prove how little they sometimes know about interpersonal friendships, but we see them grow.Time travel was a very interesting way to start Season Two. We jumped from the sheriff's daughter just starting high school in Season One to graduating from high school at the beginning of season two, quite a jump, but then things got out of control, and eventually, we find ourselves truly back where we should have been in time all along.The directors are doing a wonderful job of letting us feel for the characters. They are fleshed out and are more than just cardboard cutouts.What else can I say? I love this series, and highly recommend it to you, all five seasons.

Many Sci-fi series have had a tradition of high action levels and/or intense moralizing. EUReKA softens the genre a bit without going wacky. Jack Carter, played by Colin Ferguson, is a normal, pizza-eating, baseball loving US Marshal who ends up becoming the sheriff of a present-day town of scientific geniuses hidden in the Pacific northwest. Jack learns to cope with a town full of Segways, Smart cars, and people who alter the space-time continuum, change the weather and return from cryostasis on a regular basis. He does this with a sense of humor and a big dose of scientifically unsophisticated common sense. The best humor - on a par with shows like Frasier - comes from Jack's efforts to fit in and the zingers and one-ups he constantly exchanges with MIT PhD and Nobel Laureate Nathan Stark, played by Ed Quinn. There are more serious elements in the ongoing story line - Jack's search for romance, an autistic savant child who becomes the subject of sinister scientific and military investigation, the challenge of raising Jack's teenage daughter as a single parent - but each episode plot is driven by a well-intentioned experiment-gone-wrong that threatens the town or the universe, and which requires not only a team of scientific geniuses but Jack to resolve. Colin Ferguson leads a great ensemble cast who generate this product so effortlessly that they seem to have been born for their roles.

I already own all of the seasons on DVD, but I recently aquired a media player, so it's really convenient to watch the free episodes with my Amazon Prime membership.I absolutely love this show. Most people don't think that science fiction can work together with comedy, but this show pulls it off seamlessly and wonderfully. Although this is a 'government' owned and ran town, it really focuses on the scientists, inventions, that usually have bugs to work out and affects the town in small and big ways. There is also scientific rilvaries between scientists which add to the reality of the show. Sheriff Jack Carter may not have a genius IQ, but he is usually the one who finds the clues using his investigative experience and expertise and works with the people at Global Dynamics to solve the mysteries more than intentional crimes. It's refreshing to watch a show with so much 'tech' and not much in the way of intentional violence with a lot of clever wit that gives way to a laughter during every episode.

My cousin recommended this US TV Series to me - I had never heard of it. It suucessfully merges humour, some tension, and science fiction in a small town where the impossible happens with great regularity. The hero, a former Federal Marshal, now Sheriff of Eureka, is at an apparent disadvantage in this town of high IQ scientific genius. Yet his common sense and laid-back approach to problems makes him come up with solutions to the weird events that escape his brainier neighbours; a comfort to most of us! I thoroughly recommend this whole series (1-4), but I wish there had been more of them made.

I ordered this DVD as I saw parts of a later Series and although I believed it was worth watching fellt I could not understand what was occuring without having watched the previous series.I have also ordered Series 1. Excellent programs, well written and acted.Get your copy today Eureka: Season 3.0 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSCEureka: Season 3.0 [DVD] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC

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Great Sci-Fi series suitable for older kids and adults with no serious violence or bad language. Interesting episodes - lots of humour and suspense.

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