7.4 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
A mighty warrior and a young boy search for enlightenment in a ruthless territory controlled by feudal barons.
Starring: Daniel Wu, Orla Brady, Sarah Bolger, Aramis Knight, Emily BeechamMartial arts | 100% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Adventure | Insignificant |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English SDH, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Three-disc set (3 BDs)
UV digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (C untested)
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Into the Badlands hasn't reached the television zenith achieved by other AMC programs of recent vintage like The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad, but its quick-fire, six-episode first season certainly put it on the map, and in the conversation should future seasons build on its excellence. A dense, detailed, gritty, and action-packed tale of a post-apocalyptic world where guns are no more, where feudal systems have risen, and the human condition really hasn't changed all that much, the show, from Creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, proved to be one of the best new things on television, taking an assortment of somewhat stock ideas and putting them together in new and interesting ways. Season two, expanded to ten episodes, bears much of the fruit that started to grow from season one, building on everything, making each episode bigger and badder, the characters more fully defined, the world larger and more complex and more dangerous.
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Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season features a sharp and clean digital image. Textural efficiency is a highlight. Detailing rarely wants for improved definition. Dense facial hair, dirt and grime caked onto skin, pores, frayed clothes, and rough and raw terrain never disappoint. Sharpness is consistently impressive and clarity is exceptional; the image excels in this area. Colors are likewise impressive, offering plenty of vitality to brilliant shades of blue clothes, red blood, green vegetation, and other splashes of color against the largely barren, earthy and black and gray colors that tend to dominate, but not exclusively. Black levels are pleasantly accurate, as are skin tones, all of which are very deep and very firm. Image clarity is wonderful; there's nary a soft or smudgy corner. Noise is kept to a bare minimum and is usually only visible in lower light shots. No other serious encode or source artifacts are immediately obvious. This is a very high quality, high yield 1080p release from Lionsgate.
Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season's Dolby TrueHD 5.1 lossless soundtrack offers pleasingly spaced music, active surround wrap, impressive front-side width, and quality instrumental clarity. The track rarely plays large, at least not compared to some high-end films. There's a pleasing low end depth, a well defined supportive bottom, to various action and music effects. The stage never wants for much more in the way of essential spacing, and action details find commendable spacing and clarity, but the track isn't super-aggressive, not capable, or willing, to belt out the sort of fundamentally exuberant, boundless energy music and effects found on superior tracks. Still, essentials are presented in good working order, and explosions generally pack a healthy enough punch while sword-wielding action scenes offer plenty of clanks and chaos around the stage. Dialogue is never hard to hear or lacking lifelike clarity.
Where as the season one Blu-ray contained a handful of featurettes, season two's release is much more sparsely supplemented. Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season contains deleted scenes for nine of the ten episodes (only episode nine comes up empty) on disc three (1080p, 22:48 total runtime). Disc one houses trailers for Fear the Walking Dead and The Walking Dead (1080p, 0:49 total runtime). A UV digital copy code is included with purchase.
Into the Badlands has yet to mature into one of television's top shows, but season two pushes it further into relevancy. More breathing room to define characters and splash the screen with action and blood, it's become a richly realized escape that's on the precipice of something special. Into the Badlands: The Complete Second Season's Blu-ray delivers excellent video, adequate 5.1 lossless audio, and a supplemental section made entirely of 20+ minutes of deleted scenes. Recommended in conjunction with season one.
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