A Town Called Eureka - Season 2 - Complete - Sci-fi [DVD]

The complete second season of the fantasy series set in the quirky and seemingly perfect small town of Eureka, where the hidden work of America's brightest scientists can lead to innovation or utter chaos. The series stars Colin Ferguson as Sheriff Jack Carter, a former U.S. marshal who is stranded in the town after a car accident. Episodes comprise: 'Phoenix Rising', 'Try, Try Again', 'Unpredictable', 'Games People Play', 'Duck, Duck Goose', 'Noche de Suenos', 'Family Reunion', 'E-MC...?', 'Sight Unseen', 'God Is in the Details', 'Maneater', 'All That Glitters' and 'A Night in Global Dynamics'. Plenty of new television series need a season or two to sort themselves out, and as the second season reveals, A Town Called 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 A Town Called 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 A Town Called Eureka a but convoluted and hard to get a handle on, but this show is a keeper.--Sam Graham Synopsis This smart series combines the strangeness of The X-Files with the diverse characters of Northern Exposure to create an innovative dramedy. A car accident leads U.S. Marshal Jack Carter (Colin Ferguson) to the small town of Eureka. The town is the brainchild of Albert Einstein and President Truman, and has become a haven for the smartest people in the country. Though Eureka appears to be like any other small city in the Northwest, its denizens make sure their home is never normal as they create the innovations that power the rest of the globe. As Eureka is kept a secret from the outside world, Allison Blake (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) acts a bridge between the town and the Pentagon. She and Carter bump heads, but their rivalry is driven by a heated chemistry that gives the show some zing. Eureka also features the talents of genre favourites such as Joe Morton ( Brother From Another Planet), Debrah Farentino ( Earth 2), and Matt Frewer ( Max Headroom). This release includes the second series in its entirety.