JAG - Season 2 [DVD]

NBC cancelled. CBS revived. Changes were made. Forget about Season 1's cliffhanger. Sadly it is also now as though entertainingly spirited Meg had never been. Rabb's new partner is Sarah MacKenzie - impressive with a punchbag and invaluable at helping bring villains to book.At its best, this season is great (as with Episode 5 - is a female recruit's claim of harassment justified, or is she simply not up to requirements? ). At its worst, it is awful (as in Ep.9 with Rabb obliged to act as bodyguard to a flirty, extremely tiresome princess). Too often elsewhere promising themes are let down by trite dialogue and clunky attempts at humour. If only there were more court cases (guarantees of tension and surprises) or more tense storylines (as when Rabb and Sarah are hunted by murderous poachers)!Season 1 was far better than expected. Season 2 too often gives cause for regret. Hopefully Season 3 will prove more worthy.

This is the end, my friend.This is the end, my Jaggy friend,The end...I bought this season because (a) it was cheap, and (b) I was interested to see how the Season 1 cliff-hanger was resolved. And my reaction to Episode 1 was - HUH? The cliff-hanger wasn't resolved. We went straight on as if nothing had happened, except that Meg, the delicious blonde Navy sidekick, was now replaced by Mac, the delicious brunette Marine sidekick and murdered Harm girlfriend lookalike, and we have a new comic element in the cherubic, slightly bumbling, but also slightly smart Lt. Roberts, met previously in Season 1 on a carrier. We also have a regular State Department type who moonlights for the CIA. Or is it the other way around?So what happened? A bit of research revealed that the show had been dropped in its first season and that the last episode (the murder of the Mac lookalike) hadn't even been shown at the time. By the time it was picked up by a different network, Meg had vamoosed.Two main things remain from the first season; the glossy, glamorous, perpetually well-laundered cast with all the answers, and the steadily increasing improbability of the stories, especially the fact that Navy lawyers get involved in so much action. The two first episodes were among the most ridiculous bits of television I've ever seen and stretched credulity far beyond my breaking point. The fourth episode actually got into a courtroom (finally!) and what happened there was even crazier. I shall not give any spoilers, but suffice to say that, in real life, Lt. Cdr. Rabb would probably have been hung from the yard arm, never mind cashiered. Mind you, it has to be said that the courtroom episodes (of which there were a few) were more realistic and (to me) more entertaining than the "action" episodes.The episode, "Trinity", set in my native Northern Ireland during "the Troubles", was hilariously nonsensical - I especially enjoyed the often distinctly southern Irish accents of the RUC and the allegedly Belfast double-decker with "Carnaby Street" on the front! (That's one long bus ride). And I can't imagine any RUC inspector affording a steel/gold Rolex GMT-Master. (Lots of Rolex product placement by the way - Harm wears a Submariner, a Marine captain elsewhere has one of those steel/gold GMTs and Mac's looks like a lady Oyster Perpetual. Good taste!)There were a few worthwhile episodes that addressed real issues in an interesting way (women in combat roles, homosexuality in the forces), but these were outnumbered by the cheesy/nonsensical ones.Enough, no more! No matter that the military background is often interesting, no matter how handsome are the characters, no matter that they play their often staggeringly cheesy parts well, no matter the interest in the inevitable twists and turns of Harm and Mac clearly en route to true love, if the story lines are so staggeringly implausible, I can't watch it. Given the thing's success, the formula clearly has worked well, so clearly there are a lot of folk out there who can suspend disbelief much more than I can. But this is where I get off.One thing the JAG series did do for me - it caused me to admire enormously the guys and gals who somehow manage to land big, heavy jet fighters on something that appears to be the size of a postage stamp, and which is going up and down the way postage stamps generally don't. These people are superhuman.

I wrote a review about Season 1 after watching only the first disc and gave it only two stars. However it did improve and I started to enjoy it so much I invested in Season 2. That was a dreadful mistake. His little blond sidekick, who was very good, was gone to be replaced by some chubby little bloke with the charisma of a lump of wood. Each episode tells us his past history in the service. The stories are poor and the one involving the I.R.A. is so anti-British that I thought it was an absolute disgrace to portray an ally in such a light. If you are looking for a first rate series to buy get "Dexter" or "Mad Men" both series worth every penny they cost.

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I bought this for my husband and he is completely hooked.He is now up to the fourth series and he says each series is excellent.although it is a few years old now it doesnt seem dated.He would definitely recommend it to everybody.

We both enjoyed the series and would may be purchase another series but will wait until the price drops before doing so.

Love this season of Jag and was glad I had this part of my collection. I have the other 9