Haven: The Complete Second Season [DVD]

This show is so amazing and deserves more hype!

One of the best syfy series. I love it and had to purchase since I cannot find it anywhere. Some Sundays I just get in the mood to watch it.

My sister started watching Haven and raved about it to me. We are both Sci-Fi fantasy geek girls and love Stephen King, so naturally this one went into the pile of have to see/read/own. I'm so glad I found out about this one and I loved it so much I bought an Amazon TV pass to Season 2 right away. First, a word of warning. This show is a lot quirkier than most Supernatural/Fantasy TV series. Much more along the lines of Warehouse 13 and Eureka than Supernatural or X-Files. And it has a sly, bantering quiet sense of humor much like that of its heroine Audrey. And you may think, "What the heck is this? I'm expecting the monster to leap out at any moment and devour people, to see blood and guts and people running through the woods screaming." But that's not what this show is about except maybe on the surface. Sort of. It seems so simple that at first I nearly gave up on it since I thought, "Wow, if this is all there is to it then why am I watching?" But having been warned by my sister that it starts off slow and you have to be patient to get a payoff I kept watching and I'm so glad I did. Because as with most things (okay all things) Stephen King there is alot more going on beneath the surface than one sees at first glance. BTW - while this series is based loosely on the Stephen King novella "The Colorado Kid" it isn't strictly written by King himself. Nonetheless it still has his particular brand of humor/horror/supernatural stamp on it and enough nods to his other material to make a rabid fan still quite happy.Slowly you find yourself becoming hooked on the people themselves. Gorgeous Nate who literally can't feel anything except emotions, equally gorgeous Duke who's the bad boy with a heart (sometimes) and our former FBI agent turned small town cop girl Audrey. Lucky, lucky Audrey! The two intriguing older gents who run the town newspaper and act as Audrye's surrogate mentors/friends/confidantes and who I am beginning to suspect aren't exactly what they seem to be. (But then again in Haven no one is). And then there are the people who are "troubled" that often wreak unintended consequences on the rest of their fellows and community as their various supernatural talents surface in unexpected ways. Think of it as sort of a Nancy Drew grows up, is gorgeous and has a brain and wits to match and takes up where the X-files left off. The Winchester boys from Supernatural would be be impressed and quite possibly very smitten with Audrey. She's the sort of woman who is more than a match for any of the men in the series and yet real enough and smart enough to make someone like me wish I could find a best friend exactly like her.I won't give anything away with this review except to say that if you like different, odd, quirky and intriguing then Haven is a TV series you don't want to miss.

Two discs are in one slot so four disc total in this season

I love the camaraderie between the characters, great town and interesting topics.

I ordered the 1 disk Blu-ray version but what I received was a 4 disc Blu-ray version that I can't even find listed anywhere here on the Amazon site, so I can't comment on the the physical qualities of the single disk release.As for the 4 disc release, the packaging looks to be the same as the regular DVD version. It's a full tri-fold slip cased holder with the episode synopses on the first fold and the discs stacked on top of each other 2 to a fold on the remaining sections.The story itself continues to be well scripted and acted, and they keep me interested from episode to episode, answering some questions and bringing up new ones as the season progresses. There are not any episodes that do not move the main story and plot along, no side trips as it were, with the exception of the Christmas special, and even it does a good job of moving the story along. That episode is on the last disk as the last feature, but I would have put it at the very beginning. I say this mainly because after watching the cliff hanger ending, it almost seems to be a step back. But I guess it's a side trip.The special features are worth watching and an entertaining behind the scenes look that are just about the right length. Long enough that I felt I learned something neat about the show, but not so long that I started looking at my clock wondering how much longer.One reason I detracted a star is for a purely technical standpoint. 6 episodes had commentary tracks. 2 of them had 2 commentary tracks. Rather than making the commentary tracks be an alternate audio stream on the main title, the commentary tracks are on their own distinctive titles on the disk. This makes it impossible to easily and conveniently watch a scene, then back up a few minutes and re-watch it with the commentary track turn on so see if there was a particular comment about it. Instead, you'd have to exit completely back out to the main menu and choose the commentary version to watch to get that. I can think of no logical reason this was done this way.

When I saw Season 1 pilot of Haven on the Syfy channel, I thought that this was an amazing concept and an extremely entertaining show. You don't get many great story lines in TV today...just a lot of fast-paced, action-filled with everything happening at the blink of an eye, shoot `em up and throw them out...case solved (which I like but prefer differing choices). With Haven, you get that sci-fi, supernatural long-lasting drama, that actually has a tale in each episode (it reminds me of the old Hitchcock or Twilight Zone series.All the characters in this series have some paranormal capacity, but you never know quite what it is. Take for example the main character, FBI agent Audrey Parker, there is some eeriness about her but it never is identified; only speculated... but she is the enforcement officer in this small town Haven, Maine that upholds the law, battles the paranormal and resolves the unknown. After all, Haven is a town were mysterious things occur, and therefore, attract people with some assortment of the supernatural affiliation."Haven" is a wonderfully witty and entertaining series. Of course, you must like this kind of genre to fully appreciate sci-fi, supernatural drama at its finest. Season 2 has turned out to be just as awesome as season 1. I just love summer TV on the Syfy channel...many great original series worth watching. I'm always anticipating the next Haven episode...love it! The story line's uniqueness is Brilliant!!!!

I like this show the second season was the best.

Reasonable price.

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A pesar de que al principio hice un pedido con dos de los dvds y luego otro pedido con el tercero, me llegaron los 3 en un mismo paquet en la fecha estipulada y en muy buen estado.(es uno de los 3 que llegaron en el mismo paquete)

I came across season one rather by accident, but was immediately intrigued by the story and the underlying secrets. I could not wait to learn how the events around Audrey, Nathan, Duke and the town of Haven would develop. I was not disappointed, there are new secrets and turns that I found interesting. It is funny as well as dramatic, the storyline and the characters have taken me in right away! Even though the characters' motives sometimes seem very clear and their relationship as well as their role in the story rather obvious, there is still room for developments and complexity, and secrets you may not have suspected. There is a cliffhanger at the end of this season, so I cannot wait for season 3 now... ;-)You might like this if you are into mysterious stories and do not mind not everything being explained right away. Mind you, it is different from series like the X-files, and nothing like, say, Supernatural. No demons here, and the mysteries are clearly linked to Haven and its past as well as to Audrey.As for the DVDs, I was satisfied with the quality of the packaging as well as with the DVDs themselves. In the bonus material I particularly liked the Audio commentaries and the Christmas episode that was funny and moving at the same time.

Bought for other person. All good. Received on time.