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Nikita: The Complete Second Season
In season one of this sexy and suspenseful series featuring
international action star Maggie Q in the title role, the
charming and deadly Nikita waged a war against Division, the
agency that created her. Michael – the man who trained her, a man
she trusted – was hunting her. But Nikita had an ace up her
sleeve: Alex, a girl she trained to infiltrate this secret unit
of the government. At the end of season one, Nikita and Alex's
relationship has been shattered, and Nikita and Michael's
relationship has been restored. Now, Nikita and Michael are on
the run with a hard drive containing the government's darkest
secrets and conspiracies. Together, they are going to right the
wrongs that Division has committed over the years, one mission at
a time. But leading the hunt for them this time is Alex ... and
she knows all of Nikita's tricks!
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The pedigree and history of Nikita's birth and development are
easily researched elsewhere--see the season-one review for
backstory and exposition. And for lucky fans of the show, season
two continues the exceptional storytelling and movie-like feel of
new installments about the rogue government organization
known as Division. Maggie Q stars in the title role, a former
Division agent now bent on destroying its evil reign by flipping
her legs and firing her weapons at her avowed enemy, with a
couple of devastating hair tosses and mega-toned body blows
thrown in for good measure. There's the equally beguiling Lyndsy
Fonseca as Nikita's mole Alex, Shane West as her former Division
rival Michael, and Aaron Stanford as Birkhoff, Division's geeky
yet sinister tech whiz. Xander Berkeley is still spiraling down
into evil and power-madness as the deposed Division chief, and
Melinda Clarke's Amanda is taking a more proactive run at
practicing treachery as Division's wicked sorceress.
Season two picks up and complicates multiple story threads that
were gradually revealed in season one. First among the
intersecting stories is the continued quest to hack into and
reveal the secrets of so-called black boxes that will expose the
diabolical activities of Division, especially the self-serving
puppet-master manipulations of Percy. Michael is now working with
Nikita to bring down Division from the inside, and Alex appears
to have turned from a mole to a loyal Division operative
diligently working to destroy Nikita. But as with any good
saga, things are not always as they seem. As episodes unfold,
allegiances falter back and forth with shifting goals as Division
continues to run its nefarious games, and both Nikita and Alex
also keep focus on discovering the secrets of their own pasts.
The black boxes progressively dole out information while other
plot threads weave through the arc of the season. There's a
constant ratcheting up of some pretty nasty doings orchestrated
by the villainous Percy and his increasingly unhinged attempts
toward personal domination, including an obsession with gaining
control of a nuclear device. In addition to the top-line cast
there are several recurring characters who make nifty allies and
thugs. Owen Elliot (Devon Sawa), Division contractor and keeper
of black-box secrets, pops up frequently as both consort and
conspirator. Roan (Rob Stewart), Percy's personal button man,
makes mission life difficult for both Nikita and Alex, and Ryan
Fletcher (Noah Bean) proves to be both a pawn and wily
collaborator for Nikita. All this cloak-and-dagger and martial
arts combat stuff unfolds against an international backdrop that
the show fakes with creditable flair. Nikita kicks out the jams
in locations that include Istanbul, Minsk, London, Basel, and the
jungles of Colombia, not to mention the sinister high-tech
underground lair that is Division headquarters. It's highly
produced and excellently designed material that gives each
episode a distinctively cinematic sense of panache. The cast and
crew are pros in the reality of making glossy entertainment about
pros of a fantastical but equally fast-paced vocation. There are
only a few extras in the five-disc set, but they include nicely
executed pieces of documentary film in themselves. One is titled
"What If? Writing the e of Division," which delves into the
brainy process creator Craig Silverstein and his writing staff go
through to give Nikita its strong verisimilitude. The other,
"Living the Life: Maggie Q," is a glamorous, unpuffy featurette
about the on-set life of the star. There are also the usual
deleted scenes and a commentary track from Silverstein for the
season finale. Best of all is the promise of seeing season three
of a show that's edgy, sexy, exciting, and dangerous, words that
also describe the pretty faces and outlandishly irresistible
situations that highlight every episode. --Ted Fry