Product Description

Country legend and recent Broadway sensation Reba McEntire stars in Reba, a hilarious and spirited look at the "perfect" American family gone awry. The perfect holiday gift for every Reba fan.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3859 in DVD
• Brand: TCFHE
• Released on: 2005-12-13
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish
• Dubbed in: English
• Dimensions: .72 pounds
• Running time: 543 minutes

Amazon.com
Reba: Season 2 stays the course set in the first season, with sitcom star (and country music legend) Reba McEntire playing a divorced mom (named Reba Hart) trying to get her bearings after her dentist husband, Brock (Christopher Hart), leaves her to take up with his simple but sweet-natured hygenist, Barbra Jean (Melissa Peterman). That's still only part of the heroine's troubles. Her 17-year-old daughter, Cheyenne (Joanna Garcia), and the latter's teenage husband, Van (Steve Howey), are living in Reba's house with their infant, while Reba's younger daughter Kyra (Scarlett Pomers) is maturing at an unnerving clip and son Jake (Mitch Holleman) frequently loses out when it comes to mom's attention. None of that is as crazy-making, however, as Barbra Jean's naive overtures to Reba for sisterly friendship--when the new Mrs. Hart and Brock move into a house near Reba's, Barbra Jean can't wait to visit Brock's ex-wife often. Very often.

With these new and reconfigured relationships fixed in place, the dust is settling in season 2. Now comes the really hard part: pinching pennies while trying to teach the profligate, clueless Cheyenne and Van that they don't have the scratch to get an apartment or spend money on non-essentials. Or interviewing for jobs for which Reba clearly has no experience. Or trying to hold onto Kyra's loyalty when what the girl wants is more of dad. The seriousness of these running issues speaks for itself, forming a strong foundation for a show whose humor is understandably biting without being off-putting. McEntire and the rest of the cast are consistently strong and funny, while Peterman continues to stand out in her somewhat broader performance. (Peterman's comic assuredness sometimes reminds one of Lucille Ball.) Lots of life lessons in this show, but a lot of disciplined if gentle comedy as well. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Reba takes the stage for a second season!
I have been eagerly anticipating this DVD. I am a fairly recent fan of Reba (since last summer), and unfortunately did not begin watching her television show until midway through the third season. However, I bought the first season when it came out last year, and LOVED IT. I can not even begin to try and give a higher recommendation for anything involving this show. The ensemble cast gives a stellar performance as a dysfunctional family trying to cope with problems such as adultery and teen marriage. Reba takes the stage in this warm family sitcom that takes those issues, and shows viewers how you can handle them, with a lighthearted, funny perspective that is sure to leave you with a warm, satisfied feeling. Whether you are watching Reba herself handle these situations in her life as a "survivor," as the theme song so appropriately states, Barbra Jean and all of her hilarious antics, or any of the other characters, you are sure to enjoy this sitcom. I can't wait for this release in December, and if you are smart, you will indulge yourself in this smart and funny sitcom! YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!

Family dys-fun-ction.
Reba's mad family returns in the second season of "Reba," with the overstressed redhead overcoming the crises of the first season. Think things are going to get calmer? No way. Reba McIntyre continues to be funny, wonky and extraordinarily tolerant as the family madcappery continues.

Last season ended with the birth of Reba's first grandchild. But she doesn't have time to relax, with Cheyenne and Van going off to college, only to have Van injure his knee and postpone school. So the new parents will be living with Grandma Reba awhile longer -- whether she likes it or not.

Things get even more complex when Reba finds that she must get a job, for the first time in several years -- especially when she ends up working for her ex-husband's hated rival. And her old pal Lori Ann convinces her to try "speed dating," which leads to a rather deceptive date with a nice guy. Problem is, she can't manage to say "I love you."

And those are only a few of her problems: attractions to her daughter's boyfriend's dad, lonely Christmas Eves, private videotapes, Barbara Jean's maternal yearnings, an ex-boyfriend's death, self-defense courses, jealousy over the expensive gifts Van's parents are lavishing on baby Elizabeth... and whether Kyra will leave home to live with Brock.

Perhaps no sitcom on TV embodies the fragmented extended family better than "Reba" -- ex-husband, new wife and her baby, ex-wife and her kids, ex-wife's daughter and her new husband and baby. And in the second season, "Reba" settles into a comfortable niche that builds on what we already have seen. High school is over, babies are born, couples are married. Let the chaos begin.

There are some unrealistic twists. After treating Reba and Cheyenne like dirt, the cold-hearted, hard-drinking Montgomery Sr. suddenly goes all goopy over his grandchild and turns up at Reba's house to fawn over her? Nuh-uh. And the whole subplot about Reba's boyfriend never really goes anywhere, and fortunately ends quickly.

Fortunately, most of them are all too real, such as Reba's anguish over her kids seeming to prefer Brock and Barbara Jean's more stable household. It's fun to see them all beating each other up at a self-defense course, insulting each other on a "time capsule" video, and dealing with weepy boyfriends. And the twisted family situations reach a peak with the rivalry between Brock and Barbara Jean's ex-boyfriend.

Reba McIntyre continues the "manic wise woman" role that she had in the first season, but polishes the edges this time. Melissa Peterman also gets even better, with a less pushy but still crazy Barbara Jean (who no longer talks about Jesus in every sentence). And fans of "Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" will want to keep an eye out for James Avery, playing (what else?) a sarcastic judge. "Uncle Phil" is the icing on the cake for one of the season's best episodes.

Post-divorce dating, new parenthood, teen romance and workplace rivalry rule in the second season of "Reba." It's weaker than the first season in places, but still enormous fun.

"REBA" is on a roll!
This show gets better and better! If you havn't seen Season 1, it's also available on DVD! Do yourself a favor and buy both seasons! DEFINETLY WORTH IT!