Product Description

4 8 15 16 23 42. Push the button and prepare to be blown away by the groundbreaking television event USA Today calls "TV's best series." The multiple Emmy(R) Award-winning drama reaches new heights in its spectacular second season as the survivors of Oceanic Flight 815 discover they are not alone in their battle against "The Others" and a contested decision to open the hatch reveals a new realm of mystery and intrigue. Prepare yourself for the DVD experience of Season Two complete with over 8 hours of original bonus material you can't see anywhere else -- including unaired original flashbacks -- and you'll discover for yourself why "everything happens for a reason."Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: TV-14 UPC: 786936300468 Manufacturer No: 4173603

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #454 in DVD
• Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
• Released on: 2006-09-05
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Box set, Subtitled, NTSC, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Dimensions: .90 pounds
• Running time: 1056 minutes

Amazon.com
What was in the Hatch? The cliffhanger from season one of Lost was answered in its opening sequences, only to launch into more questions as the season progressed. That's right: Just when you say "Ohhhhh," there comes another "What?" Thankfully, the show's producers sprinkle answers like tasty morsels throughout the season, ending with a whopper: What caused Oceanic Air Flight 815 to crash in the first place? As the show digs into more revelations about its inhabitant's pasts, it also devotes a good chunk to new characters (Hey, it's an island; you never know who you're going to run into.) First, there are the "Tailies," passengers from the back end of the plane who crashed on the other side of the island. Among them are the wise, God-fearing ex-drug lord Mr. Eko (standout Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje); devoted husband Bernard (Sam Anderson); psychiatrist Libby (Cynthia Watros, whose character has more than one hidden link to the other islanders); and ex-cop Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez), by far the most infuriating character on the show, despite how much the writers tried to incur sympathy with her flashback. Then there are the Others, first introduced when they kidnapped Walt (Malcolm David Kelley) at the end of season one. Brutal and calculating, their agenda only became more complex when one of them (played creepily by Michael Emerson) was held hostage in the hatch and, quite handily, plays mind games on everyone's already frayed nerves. The original cast continues to battle their own skeletons, most notably Locke (Terry O'Quinn), Sun (Yunjin Kim) and Michael (Harold Perrineau), whose obsession with finding Walt takes a dangerous turn. The love triangle between Jack (Matthew Fox), Kate (Evangeline Lilly) and Sawyer (Josh Holloway), which had stalled with Sawyer's departure, heats up again in the second half. Despite the bloating cast size (knocked down by a few by season's end) Lost still does what it does best: explores the psyche of people, about whom "my life is an open book" never applies, and cracks into the social dynamics of strangers thrust into Lord of the Flies-esque situations. Is it all a science experiment? A dream? A supernatural pocket in the universe? Likely, any theory will wind up on shaky ground by the season's conclusion. But hey, that's the fun of it. This show was made for DVD, and you can pause and slow-frame to your heart's content. Just try and keep that head-spinning to a minimum.

On the DVD

Commentaries by various cast members and producers reveal little other than the occasional easter egg (the Dharma logo on the shark fin, Walt's mumbling translating to "Don't push the button; the button is bad" backwards). But disc seven opens with an eerie Hanso Foundation instructional video, leading you to eight hours of bonus features, including cast members' own theories, deleted scenes, and featurettes on specific episodes. It's all well and good for Lost fanatics, but if you want the cream of the crop, check out: "Lost Connections," an interactive feature that reveals how all the islanders are actually linked (for instance, one of the officers who captured Sayid during the Gulf War is Kate's father); a Channel UK promo for the show directed by David LaChappelle in which cast members suck in their cheeks and, dressed in evening wear, tango in slow motion as if in a Calvin Klein ad (it has to be a joke, right?); and "The World According to Sawyer," which strings together each of the un-PC nicknames and pop culture references spewed by Holloway's character. Favorites include "Chewie" for Jin and "Ponce de Leon" for Ana Lucia. It's by far the cherry on top of a sweet dessert. --Ellen A. Kim

Customer Reviews

What you didn't read my first review?
If you didn't read my first review about the first season of Lost then I will tell you the same thing for season two. It is the best show on tv. When I am watching my second season of Lost that I purchased right here at Amazon.com, I am dropped into a world of mystery and terror! The survivors must deal with the mysterious hatch, and they are not alone on the island! OoOoOoOoO......... are you interested yet? You should be. Bring those sweet buns over here to your computer chair and order the second season today!!!

Not as good as season one
Season two of Lost is quite enjoyable, but with some shortcomings. Overall, the series is quite intelligent science fiction with tight writing and sophisticated character development. Season two is not as successful when the flashbacks are redundant. Some characters, like Jin and Sun and Locke, have flashbacks that continually reveal new information and story lines. This keeps the show fresh and interesting. Other character flashbacks, like Hurley and Charlie, rehash the same themes as season one making those episodes less interesting. Claire's character also becomes really lame and whiny. If all the characters had new themes to their flashbacks it would have been more engaging. The introduction of new characters like Ana Lucia (Michelle Rodriguez) were not that great. Her character is too dominating and violent. In Season two guns start to dominate the action elements of the show, which I do not care for. Part of the show's appeal was that it was "primitive" and the survivors had to be creative with what they used to survive. Every show on TV these days seems to involve gun violence, and Lost starts to follow that cliché. But, overall, the show remains well done and interesting and Season 3, and especially season 4 are great.

LOST DVD SETS
I purchased these for my sister (Lost - the first 3 seasons) as she had lost all her tapes where she taped each episode on a VCR. She loved the LOST episodes that I purchased at the same time and was estatic to get these 3 episodes!