North And South - Season 2 DVD

Advantages: Patrick Swayze in an early role
Disadvantages: No DVD extras

...reviewed the first boxset of North and South separately on: (http://dvd.ciao.co.uk/NorthAndSouthSeason1DVDReview5604842) (I know it's a plug!). ***The DVD*** Book 1 was really the introduction into the lives of the Main family in the Southern States and the Hazard family in the North and how these two families related to each other and how their relationships intertwined in the run up to the American Civil War. Our two main characters ...
...Charmed!). Swayze plays Orry Main, the plantation owner's son from Mont Royal plantation and Read plays George Hazard, and industrialist's son from Leigh High Station in Pennsylvania. Main and Hazard first meet on the way to the famous West Point Military Academy in the first box-set and the story continues ..... Hazard is now married to Constance Flynn (Wendy Kilbourne) and a high ranking officer in the Yankee army, while Main is still single and ... Read review

Advantages: continuing exciting plot line
Disadvantages: change of actors, cheesy acting

...on from my review of North and South - Series One (yes I have watched them all :P), series two delves into the civil war and continues to tell the tale of two families on now opposite sides. How some events during the civil war tear them apart and some events that will eventually bring them back together.. North and South maintains its previous quality of acting and drama very well. However due to some casting difficulties the actor who played Billy ...
...disappointment to me and maybe those who know what Im talking about...However the show must go on and Billy was recast from John Stockwell to Parker Stevenson, who continued the role in his own take of the character. The battle scenes are nicely done however not at their true historical locations. Im not American but it is quite obvious. I would stay away if you don't like fictional characters being woven into important roles in history. As Orry ... Read review