The O.C. - The Complete Second Season (DVD, 2005, 7-Disc Set)

The most popular night-time soap since Beverly Hills, 90210 makes its return for season 2. Seth, Summer, Sandy, Ryan, Marissa are all back to spend another year in the OC. Spread over 7 discs containing 24 episodes means you better free up a lot of spare time. At 44 minutes an episode you are looking at 17.5 hours of OC to watch. Luckily for you there is always a pause button.
The season begins with Seth hiding in Oregon, upset about Ryan's decision to leave the OC and move back to chino to help raise his soon to be born child. Marissa and Summer remained in the OC all summer, sad about their boyfriends leaving town, but have soon found comfort in new men. Unfortunately for the girls Ryan and Seth make their triumphant return to the OC by the end of episode 1. This season brings on many new characters, but my favorites are Alex the local lesbian who causes Marissa to think twice and Carter who becomes a serious temptation for Kirsten. Both characters to me provide a certain edge the OC was lacking and it was so much fun to see the trials and tribulations they can put the OC crew through. The season overall seemed to flow nicely, focusing a little more on the grown up characters rather than the children, but it still managed to keep me interested by providing just as witty writing as the first season. By far my favorite episode was The Rainy Day Women, which has a great ode to Spiderman in it that any fan should see.
The DVDs themselves are much improved over season 1. They are now filmed in 16 x 9 widescreen format (thank god) and the transfer of the film to DVD looks to be much better as they look much nicer on a widescreen TV. In addition you get many commentary tracks from the shows writers, a couple gag reals from seasons 1 and 2 and of my personal favorite the extended version of the episode The Rainy Day Women. The new season starts September 8th, get ready!