The main focus and drive of this season for Santanico and Richie is to take down the man/culebra who made Santanico and kept her as his prisoner at The Twister for hundreds of years, the formidable Lord Amancio Malvado (Esai Morales). While Santanico wants to murder him and truly free herself, Richie begins to set his sights on the man's vast criminal operation of flesh-peddling and more. Meanwhile, Kate and Seth are somewhere in Mexico just struggling to make it day to day with small jobs. Seth seems a bit lost without Richie and has turned to heroin, with Kate caring for him. However, Kate decides to take matters into her own hands and finds a big score with the help of a local culebra named Rafael, with whom she becomes friends. Soon, Seth meets a lovely ex-pat named Sonja (Briana Evigan), who is a talented tattoo artist and passport forger, and the two join forces, although through a rather tumultuous set of events.
Ranger Freddie Gonzalez (Jesse Garcia) has become hyper-focused on protecting his family and fighting the culebra threat and is working on a serial killer case involving migrant workers with strange carvings on their foreheads. This will lead him further down the culebra rabbit hole.
It soon becomes clear that the symbols on the bearer bonds from last season are actually a map to a mythical place that the culebra lords are desperate to find. They pull Professor Aiden Tanner AKA Sex Machine (Jake Busey) from the labyrinth so he can help find the missing pieces and translate the map, meanwhile Carlos is tired of being Narciso's second and determines to make himself a serious contender for Malvado's position. Before you know it, everyone is once again intertwined in a caper and pitted against each other, but with each person having different goals, there's no way everyone can get exactly what they want. By the time the season finale rolls around, things have changed dramatically with several main cast members having been killed and the setting moving from The Twister to a honky-tonk (and Malvado's stronghold) called Jacknife Jeds. But in the universe of From Dusk Till Dawn, are we sure these characters are permanently dead? Not unless you seem them explode in a flaming pile of dying culebra dust. We shall see what next season holds...
Some interesting characters appear this season, including Danny Trejo as a mythical creature made of sand and stone called The Regulator, the guy who takes care of rogue culebras; Uncle Eddie Cruickshank played by the fantastic Jeff Fahey, who guides his wayward Gecko nephews; Demi Lovato as Maia, Carlos' bad-ass love interest; Jesse Johnson (Don Johnson's son) playing a young Ranger Earl McGraw; and even Gary Busey as a crazed prospector.
There are a number of special features including audio commentary, short Inside the Episode featurettes on each of the 10 episodes, plus a full 45 minute NYC Comic Con Panel (which was the highlight of the special features), and a number of short featurettes covering everything from the origins of the series and movie that inspired it, to cast members, to stunts, to costumes and makeup, plus several other more odd and unique featurettes that give the viewer peeks into the crazy creative processes of Robert Rodriguez, El Rey Network, and Troublemaker Studios.
I think I liked From Dusk Till Dawn: Season Two better than the first season, since it didn't follow the film and had a chance to go in its own direction. You'll get plenty of sexy explosions, fight scenes, and gorgeous characters and, as always with a Rodriguez offering, you'll have lots of fun along the way. If you liked the First Season, you'll definitely want to see where life has taken this motley group of characters and, based on how the season ended, I am intrigued about where things will go. Check it out on Netflix if you just want to watch, but true fans will want the included special features on the Blu-ray.
