Da Vinci’s Demons Season 2

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Just as outrageous, just as fun, just as visually lavish and physcially improbable as Season 1. A lot of the physical torture and brutal fight scenes seem tired and overdone, but that’s all the rage these days. They cast several women in strong roles, which is great, and the frontal nudity actually enhances the story line instead of seeming gratuitous. I also like that a wide variety of body types are shown. Riario gets better and more complex and more fierce and very probably more unbalanced as the story develops. He’s certainly a fierce little devil. Overall if you just want pretty and gritty then it’s a fun show.

-John W Burgoon

This DaVinci is more Caravaggio via Jim Morrison than the sedate genius I had imagined him to be. But it’s all part of the fun as we radically depart from historical events in the second series to follow Leonardo and his friends and nemesis to the New World, as they search for the esoteric Book of Leaves. Crossing all of Amazonia in record time, our hero is still fresh enough to prevail when he encounters the Inca empire. The Incas are also as you have never seen them unless you are a fan of the 1954 film, Secret of the Incas [which a lot of Indiana Jones was inspired by]. And here we get into Indy Jones,’ territory, as Leonardo must pass a series of tests and cross a bunch of deadly hurdles to get into the inner sanctum of the Vault of Heaven where the Book of Leaves is kept. In the meantime, he must pledge himself to a sexy Incan priestess. Though she intuits his heart belongs to another-presumably the beautiful Angelina Jolie lookalike, Lucretia, it is Mother who is foremost on Leonardo’s mind.

In the meantime, continuing the story of the two popes, Lucretia travels to Istanbul to meet with Bayazid, the spurned offspring of the sultan, while Lorenzo goes to Naples to forge an alliance with their lunatic king, leaving his wife in charge of Florence. While Lorenzo is being tortured and/ or renewing his affair with his old lover, the king’s daughter in law, his wife promptly takes up with Carlo di Medici, the bastard son of Lorenzo’s grandfather Cosimo. Carlo, has returned from a life of missionary endeavors, or so he says, but on whose behalf has he been working?

Lots of twists and turns abound, characters are not what or who they seem to be-events intertwine–and the question remains–will Leonardo ever find his mother?

If it sounds campy, it is, but it’s also a lot of good escapist fun [ well, there is quite a lot of gore this time around]. Not as wonderful as the first season, but I still enjoyed it.

– lily t.

This order went wrong two ways- I ordered season 2 and 3 and got two copies of season 2. Initially, I was like whatever, I’ll just sell the second copy to other DVD collectors. I opened the dvd and the disc wouldn’t load. I tried it in multiple platforms and when I did finally get it to start the video files were corrupt and didn’t play correctly. The second copy was the same as the first. Problems loading. As a result, I’m not going to chance buying any more of that series on what seems to be a fairly good chance they’re unusable.

– E MrjnC

DVD Wholesale Main Features :   

Format: Multiple Formats, Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Number of discs: 3
Studio: ANCHOR BAY
DVD Release Date: March 3, 2015
Run Time: 548 minutes