DC's Legends of Tomorrow: The Complete Second Season

The second season of the CW's superhero team spinoff series opens with members scattered throughout time and introduces a new character, history detective Nate Heywood (Nick Zano), who helps put the group back together and joins them to stop the time-quakes that threaten to unravel history. The first season was awkward, in part due to an overstuffed cast of characters and an uninteresting villain. The team is smaller this season, which gives more screen time to Ray Palmer, aka Atom (Brandon Routh); Dr. Martin Stein (Victor Garber) and Jefferson Jackson (Franz Drameh), who together become Firestorm; Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell); and White Canary (Caity Lotz), who grows into a natural team leader. The show is now swifter, boasts more humor, and features a more challenging nemesis: the Legion of Doom, consisting of Arrow and Flash villains Reverse Flash, Damien Darhk, Malcolm Merlyn, and former/future Legends member Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller). This season offers Civil War zombies, a superhero in the court of King Arthur, a conspiracy to murder General George Washington, and the golden-age superhero team Justice Society of America, and the heroes cross paths with Albert Einstein, George Lucas, and J.R.R. Tolkien, among others. Presenting all 17 episodes from the 2016-17 second season, extras include behind-the-scenes featurettes, a 2016 Comic-Con panel discussion, deleted scenes, and a gag reel. Recommended. (S. Axmaker)