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List Price: $39.98 | | Label: Funimation Prod
Salesrank: 2561
Released: June 21, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
A new year of school brings new challenges and even more intense situations for the students of Degrassi Community School. Besides relationship and self-identity issues, season two broaches serious topics such as date rape, child abuse, eating disorders and racism with the raw honesty and engaging drama that only Degrassi can provide. The teens in Degrassi: The Next Generation prove it again and again. Degrassi is 100% Intense.This four DVD Ultimate Box set is a must-watch for any fan of Degrassi: The Next Generation.
Degrassi The Next Generation - Season 2 Reviews:
Degrassi Grows Up 
2008-07-24 - The second season of Degrassi: The Next Generation separates itself from the first by covering more grown up storylines, introducing interesting new characters, and taking the show to a new level overall. This season, half of the cast enters their freshmen year of high school, and a range of high school issues come to light.
The season immediately starts off with an extremely difficult topic--child abuse. And we get an introduction to a great new character, Craig Manning, who get to see deal with the issue first hand. Craig is the new kid at Degrassi. Aside from being a mysterious loner, he has a dark side that he hides from the people around him. His dad abuses him. And this isn't the only extreme issue dealt with this season. We get our first closeted gay character, Marco Delrossi, whose coming out process is displayed wonderfully on screen. Another new character is Ellie Nash, a feisty punk rocker with an independent attitude.
The new characters add a lot to season two, but the characters we grew to know and love in season one go through a lot this season as well. And the range of issues they go through are more grown up as well. Some of these issues include rape, an eating disorder, and underaged drinking. We also see some common issues that most teens face on a day to day basis; dating, homework or just fitting in with the right crowd. These are all important parts of high school, and we all know it because we've all been there.
Degrassi continues to address major milestones that teenagers face everyday, while also giving us a bit of light hearted humor to go with it. The show never fails to present its characters and their issues in an honest, frank manner that fans of the show will relate to. This season shows more of a mature side to the characters we got to know in season one, as well as some new ones. If you enjoyed season one, I recommend buying season two to watch your favorite characters continue to grow and develop and face all the problems that come along with being a teenager.
Much better than season 1 
2008-05-25 - Season 2 intoduces a couple of new charectors, Craig, Marco, and Ellie, as well as bringing Joey back after just two episodes the year before. It also deals with bigger issues, such as child abuse, rape, and homosexuality.
When Doves Cry 5/5
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 5/5
Karma Chameleon 5/5
Weird Science 4/5
Drive 5/5
Shout part 1 and 2 5/5
Mirror in the Bathroom 4/5
Take My Breath Away 3/5
Don't Believe the Hype 4/5
White Wedding 4/5
Careless Whisper 5/5
Hot for Teacher 4/5
Message in a Bottle 5/5
Relax 1/5
Dressed in Black 5/5
Fight for Your Right 5/5
How Soon Is Now 5/5
Tears Are Not Enough part 1 & 2 5/5
Degrassi Season Two; better then Season One.
2008-03-05 - Season Two does two things in the beginning of the season. Picks up where the cast left off last season. Ashley Kerwin's character has the biggest transformation then anyone from the original cast. Gone is the Mandy Moore clone Ashley and in her place is an Emo looking more introspective Ashley. Another interesting aspect of Season Two is the introduction of Craig Manning into the series. Craig's character deals with physical abuse from his father which is dealt with in the first two episodes of the seasons and the last two. Craig's interaction with Manny Santos and Ashley Kerwin are foreshadowing his relationship with them both in future seasons. Season Two also deals with touchy subjects like teen drinking, eating disorders, racism, self-image, abortion, rape, sexual identity, and death. This season also continues two of Degrassi great love affairs. Liberty Van Zandt & J.T. Yorke. Sean Cameron & Emma Nielson. This second season really begins the ups and downs that Semma (nickname for Sean & Emma) will go through the length of the series. As the same with Liberty & J.T. Some say Degrassi is overrated, I say the exact opposite actually. It's as close to the average teenagers experience of teenage life a teen show can be and the second season is no different.
Degrassis is nothing short of amazing!
2008-01-18 - My first time watching degrassi I saw it and wasn't impressed at all. But once you get to know the characters, you begin to sympathize every bit of the way through the troubles each one goes through as he or she grows older. And once you see a little bit of it, you just have to watch more to see what happens. This is one of the best series out there for teenagers!
Degrassi Season 2......Enjoy!
2007-08-18 - Degrassi: The Next Generation is a school-centered soap opera aimed at both teens and adults. It is a spinoff of the 80s TV show Degrassi Junior High and features a new group of students at Degrassi Community School as well as many characters from the original series that are now grown up and facing issues and problems of their own.
There are so many things that make this show a success. The cast is picture perfect. This is not the type of series that casts 25-year-olds to play someone in 9th grade. The team behind Degrassi goes for realism all the way. Because a they have a 14-year-old actor play a 14-year-old character, it packs a more dramatic punch when we see the sometimes very troublesome situations the characters get themselves in. This isn't a hilarious teen comedy show like Saved By the Bell. The characters are all three-dimensional and you won't find any stereotypes. The cast of young actors represents a true cross-section of the sort of kids you would see in real life.
As far as the storylines go, the superb first season dealt with many issues, such as teen drinking, internet stalkers, final exam stress, and in the season finale, the show became darker as one of the main characters, Ashley, overdosed on Ecstasy at a party.
Here, in the second season, the stories get even darker. Ashley spends the majority of this season dealing with how her behavior in the season one finale ruined her social life. Paige, the snobby rich girl with a heart of gold, learns the hard way that to some guys "no" doesn't always mean "no." Marco, a new character introduced this season, must deal with his sexuality. As for the adults, Emma's mother, Christine, decides to marry her boyfriend, science teacher Archie Simpson. On the eve of her wedding, she finds out she is pregnant. Archie has specifically told her he doesn't want kids so she freaks out...what should she do? Joey Jeremiah deals with his dead wife's son Craig after it is revealed that Craig's father has been SEVERELY beating him (in one of Degrassi's most painful-to-watch scenes ever). There are many more interesting stories weaving throughout this season and it never lets up. This is definitely indicative of the even greater stories to come in the later seasons!
On to the DVDs themselves. Degrassi: The Next Generation is filmed in widescreen, but for some reason, the powers-that-be have decided to release the show on DVD in fullscreen pan and scan. This is disappointing, because Degrassi is a bigger-budgeted show and every episode has a movie-like quality to it. The cropping of the picture is obvious and to have the episodes as they were originally shot would be nice. Otherwise, the picture quality is perfect, at least as good as originally broadcast.
There are three discs of episodes and then a fourth disc with a TON of special features. SuperFans of Degrassi (you know who you are) will eat this stuff up. There are over 130 deleted scenes, audition tapes, and much more.
All in all, Degrassi: The Next Generation is a wonderful series that anyone can enjoy. Even though there's the whole annoying no-widescreen issue, this is definitely a solid DVD set. Definitely buy this and the rest of the series! You won't be disappointed!
