I love "The Venture Brothers", very much an underseen and underappreciated gem of a series, for some reason never quite finding the "Rick and Morty" sized audience that it deserved. This second season is the show at full power and has several of what I'd consider the 'classic' episodes.
With the boys seemingly dead, Dr Thaddeus Venture (James Urbaniak) has been enjoying responsibility free time, but Brock Samson (Patrick Warburton) eventually drags him back to the lab. From there, its' revealed that Hank (Jackson Publick) and Dean (Michael Sinternklaas) are in fact clones of the originals, as the dangerous lifestyle has led to many many deaths before. Now back, both romantically and professionally, with Phantom Limb (James Urbaniak), Dr Girlfriend (Doc Hammer) bumps into a still clearly besotted The Monarch (Jackson Publick) who tries to win her back, but his desire for vengeance against the Venture family continually gets between them.
Again, there are some classic elements and episodes that occur in this second season. The whole Phantom Limb arc is brilliant, building across the run to the reveal at the end and the killer cameos in the finale about who really is The Sovereign. It's probably the real focus of the season, with the Ventures only playing occasional parts in it. Colonel Hunter returns along with Molotov Cocktease, in the same episode. The "Twenty years to Midnight episode" with the Giant judging robot screaming "Ignore Me". Bud Manstrong and his mother in the State Dinner episode. Another visit to Unterland. The Venturestein episode. The establishing of "The Order of The Triad". All brilliant moments.
The slight animation issues that the first season had are mostly resolved now, and the character modelling is really good. Whereas a few of the first run weren't really brilliant until around the sixth episode, here they are all wonderful from the first to the excellent finale.
Great stuff.
With the boys seemingly dead, Dr Thaddeus Venture (James Urbaniak) has been enjoying responsibility free time, but Brock Samson (Patrick Warburton) eventually drags him back to the lab. From there, its' revealed that Hank (Jackson Publick) and Dean (Michael Sinternklaas) are in fact clones of the originals, as the dangerous lifestyle has led to many many deaths before. Now back, both romantically and professionally, with Phantom Limb (James Urbaniak), Dr Girlfriend (Doc Hammer) bumps into a still clearly besotted The Monarch (Jackson Publick) who tries to win her back, but his desire for vengeance against the Venture family continually gets between them.
Again, there are some classic elements and episodes that occur in this second season. The whole Phantom Limb arc is brilliant, building across the run to the reveal at the end and the killer cameos in the finale about who really is The Sovereign. It's probably the real focus of the season, with the Ventures only playing occasional parts in it. Colonel Hunter returns along with Molotov Cocktease, in the same episode. The "Twenty years to Midnight episode" with the Giant judging robot screaming "Ignore Me". Bud Manstrong and his mother in the State Dinner episode. Another visit to Unterland. The Venturestein episode. The establishing of "The Order of The Triad". All brilliant moments.
The slight animation issues that the first season had are mostly resolved now, and the character modelling is really good. Whereas a few of the first run weren't really brilliant until around the sixth episode, here they are all wonderful from the first to the excellent finale.
Great stuff.
