The League of Gentlemen - The Complete Series 2

Product Description Take a look into the extremely unique and surreal local world of Royston Vasey. Featuring the strongest collection of characters you will ever see; all played with extraordinary range by three actors/writers. This set includes each hysterical episode from series two, as seen in the UK. This truly original Britcom has been likened to Shaun of the Dead and "Monty Python meets Twin Peaks"; customers will want to watch these unedited, original UK versions over and over again to take in what they missed the first time! DVD Features:Audio Commentary:Local Gossip (Commentary)Biographies:Local People (Character Biographies) Music Clips:Royston Vasey TunesOther:Behind the Scenes: Series 2Territorial ArmyPhoto gallery:Series 2 Scrap Book Amazon.com The three young comedians known collectively as the League of Gentlemen develop their unique comic-grotesque creations still further in this second series. Helped by elaborate makeup, Mark Gattis, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith throw themselves into their many disguises with unbounded enthusiasm. What is even more impressive is that, together with co-writer Jeremy Dyson, the Gentlemen manage to locate these alarming characters within coherent story arcs that interlock over the course of a series as well as inside the individual six episodes. Here we have the apparently inexplicable plague of fatal nosebleeds that affects the remote Northern town of Royston Vasey, the attempts of the incestuous shopkeepers Edward and Tubbs to find a bride for their monstrous offspring, the misadventures of some lost plastics salesmen, and the hostage crisis at the local Restart center. Achingly funny and entirely disturbing, this is comedy less dependent on brilliant one-liners than on recognizable yet distorted situations. One-off creations like Papa Lazarou's sinister circus or the patronizing theatre group Legz Akimbo are as fine as the sustained characterization of the anal toad-obsessed Denton family. --Roz Kaveney Additional Features The first disc contains season 2's six episodes complete with commentary from the four Gentlemen themselves. It's equally as fun and fascinating as their commentary for the first season and reveals many of the hidden movie references and in-jokes that would otherwise be missed. The second disc has a 30-minute behind-the-scenes documentary made for the BBC, plus a series