Kyle XY (TV Series) (DVD)
Season 2
APPROX. 994 MINS. - PROD. YEAR: 2006 - MPA RATING: NR
" The first seven episodes were slow-going and the overall feel of this show was way too '80s.
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6) "Does Kyle Dream of Electric Fish." Kyle has multiple visions that all come true, which, of course, leads him to believe that he's psychic.
7) "Free to Be You and Me." Kyle and Amanda have a first date, and in a rare episode of social consciousness, students protest the exclusion of same-sex couples from the school dance.
8) "What's the Frequency, Kyle?" Stephan's estranged father has a stroke and ends up in a coma; meanwhile, Jessi doesn't seem to be making any progress in her therapy.
9) "The Ghost in the Machine." On a camping trip, the gang stumbles onto ruins of Zzyzx in the forest, but most of the focus is on who likes whom. It's high school, you know!
10) "House of Cards." Kyle found a box at the Zzyzx site and now he's figuring out how to open it. A ring is involved, one which he pawned to help his new girlfriend, and that means they've got to get it back.
11) "Hands on a Hybrid." The high schoolers try to figure out Jessi's secret, while Josh and Andy kiss, and a charity event turns uncharitable.
12) "Lockdown." Nicole institutes a lockdown after Jessi escapes.
13) "Leap of Faith." Together, Jessi and Kyle try to learn about their pasts and discover a whopping secret at a cabin in the woods. Yep, it's always the woods. Jessi also jumps of a dam. Damn!
14) "To C.I.R., with Love." Kyle is in a state of shock after Jessi's leap, though why should he be? He's jumped off buildings! In this episode, two forces are after the X-kids: Madacorp and the C.I.R.
15) "The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades." Jessi starts to showboat, showing others her little trick about leaping off buildings. And Amanda's mother catches Kyle. No, not that. He's levitating.
16) "Great Expectations." A particularly soapy episode has Amanda returning home with a secret, and a mom that's determined to keep them apart.
17) "Grounded." Now it's a social worker who intrudes on the Trager home. Guy sleeping in a bathtub? What's the problem?
18) "Between the Rack and a Hard Place." Amanda starts work at The Rack and gets annoyed by Jessi. Then money turns up missing from the store's cash register. Will the drama never end? It's moments like these that really spark '80s teen drama flashbacks.
19) "First Cut is the Deepest." A trip to the University of Washington and a prom are the focal points in this one, as the storylines continue to unfold.
20) "Primary Colors." Kyle experiences brain-strain while the other kids struggle with college placement exams and Andy wrestles with more tests and test results. And who's Sarah??
21) "Grey Matters." A cheating scandal threatens to put a stop to prom, and the mysterious Sarah (Ally Sheedy--speaking of the '80s!) turns up.
22) "Hello . . ." Prom is back on again, and the whole Jessi thing starts to come to a head.
23) "I've Had the Time of My Life." Kyle researches teen movies to try to figure out how to create the perfect prom experience for his date. The episode (and season) ends with Jessi and Sarah revealing a shocker, and an even more shocking thing happens with Amanda.
Video:
The video quality is Disney decent-nothing special, but no deficiencies either. It's just a good-but-not-great picture with a fair amount of detail for a DVD, colors that seem true enough (especially skin tones) and a pleasing widescreen aspect ratio (1.78:1).
Audio:
Same with the audio, which is a solid-but-unspectacular English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround with French and Spanish subtitles. The bass isn't as rich or robust as I'm used to, but that's the only thing worth noting. Otherwise it's, well, decent.
Extras:
There's a LOT to watch.
Twenty-seven deleted scenes and an alternate ending are included, along with a behind-the-scenes feature ("Livin' with the X's"), a featurette on "The Science of 'Kyle XY,'" a "Facing the Future" look at the series arc, and audio commentaries. I didn't watch all the extras--getting through the show was painstaking enough--but what's here seems to be enough to satisfy the main teen audience and other fans of the show.
Disc one features a commentary for "The Prophet" by supervising producer Julie Plec and executive producer Erich Tuchman, and one for "The Homecoming" by producers Chad Fiveash and James Stoteraux.
Disc two has a commentary for "Ghost in the Machine" by Plec, writers Chris Hollier and Rudy Gaborno, and series star Matt Dallas.
Disc three offers commentaries for "Leap of Faith" with Dallas, Plec, and executive producer Eric Tuchman and "House of Cards" with Fiveash and Stoteraux.
Disc four has two more commentaries: "To C.I.R., with Love" with Plec, Tuchman, and writer Bryan Holdman, and "The Future's So Bright I Gotta Wear Shades" with writers Steven Lilien and Bryan Wynbrandt and director Chris Grismer.
Disc five is void of bonus features, while disc six features a commentary for "I've Had the Time of My Life" by Plec, Gaborno, and Hollier.
If fans will have any complaint, it's that Dallas is the only actor to appear on a commentary track, and he only pops up twice.
Bottom Line:
There's an audience out there for shows like this, but for me the first seven episodes were slow-going and the overall feel of this show was way too '80s. It's kind of like a teen version of "Lost," but without nearly the complexity . . . and twice the deja vu.
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