Aquarius Season 2

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WHAT IT’S ABOUT LAPD Det. Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny) has been receiving envelopes with pictures of missing women in 1967. Why? That’s what he wants to know. Meanwhile, Charmain (Claire Holt) and Brian (Grey Damon) continue the undercover operation into Charlie Manson (Gethin Anthony) and his growing family. They also have a new benefactor, Beach Boy founder Dennis Wilson (Andy Favreau). Thursday’s second-season opener is commercial-free.

MY SAY “Aquarius” fans — and there are more than enough of those (you) to ensure Thursday’s return engagement — got an important reveal at the end of the first season.

As Sam was receiving that highly dubious LAPD Medal of Valor, viewers finally learned his full name: Samson Benedictus Hodiak.

With a name like that, you better have a back story, have parents with a puckish sense of humor, and have fists of fury.

But above all, you have to be cool.

-Verne Gay

Aquarius is back for a second season on Thursday night — a two-hour, commercial-free season premiere on NBC, in fact — and it furthers this fact-based detective story about a real Charles Manson and a fictional police detective, Sam Hodiak, played by David Duchovny. The season begins with Manson and his creepy-crawly crew in the midst of killing actress Sharon Tate and others in 1969 Los Angeles.

But that’s just a brief opening scene, one planted to remind you what’s to come. The show then jumps back 18 months earlier, to show us the trail the cops are following — not to Manson, but to other cases, some of which will connect to the Manson “family.” If you find that sort of tease annoying, you may not lock in to Aquarius, but if you don’t — and I don’t — it makes for a tantalizing start to the new season.

– Ken Tucker

On the commercial-free (!), two-hour premiere of “Aquarius,” the show finally waded into more familiar waters with a series of flash-forwards to that infamous night of August 9th, 1969, when a group of Manson’s followers besieged a house being rented by actress Sharon Tate and her director husband Roman Polanski and killed everyone present at the time, in the aptly-titled “Helter Skelter.”

However, the bulk of the episode was devoted to the year before the famed crime, going back approximately sixteen months earlier, as the series of events that led to the murders were set into motion, as we met key players like Patricia “Patty” Krenwinkel (Madisen Beaty, “The Fosters”) and Charles “Tex” Watson (Cameron Deane Stewart, “Pitch Perfect”), as well as fringe players like Beach Boy Dennis Wilson (Andy Favreau, “What’s Your Number?”).

Picking up where we left off last season, Detective Sam Hodiak (David Duchovny) continues to be investigated by Agent Ron Kellaher (Tim Griffin, “Wayward Pines”) from Internal Affairs, after a witness comes forward claiming that a shooting that earned Hodiak a Medal of Valor was unwarranted, implying that he was a dirty cop in the process.

-Mark Trammell

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Actors: David Duchovny, Grey Damon, Gethin Anthony, Emma Dumont, Claire Holt
Directors: David Duchovny, Jonas Pate, Michael Zinberg
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR – Not Rated
Studio: LIONSGATE
DVD Release Date: June 13, 2017
Run Time: 780 minutes
ASIN: B06XYP8WZT