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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Series Two has it all locked up...., 13 Jun 2001
By A Customer
No details announced yet that I can find on the special features included in this set, but the second series carries on the rollercoaster precedent set by the first series.The final episode is hilarious, moving, and shocking all at once, you'll be on the edge of your seat til you fall off it screaming with either fright or laughter. Difficult to pick a star of this series. Debra Stephenson makes an intimidating Shell Dockley with some great scenes with Claire King playing Wing Govenor Karen Betts. The romance between Nikki and Helen continues with a great denoument. Both Jim and Helen get a chance to play Knight in shining armour, saving lives, but tragically not everyone makes it to the end of the series. One the highlights for me was the arrival of Linda Henry (excellent in Beautiful Thing), a brilliant character who brings a lot of humour and really stirs things up. Like the first series, it is shocking and violent in places, but very original and completely addictive. Bad Girls has an enormous tv following and web presence. If you're new to it all, you'll love it, but I'd advise you to get series one first (!) there's quite a lot of storylines that run between the two.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
BACK and better than ever, 31 Jul 2004
If Series 1 got you hooked, Series 2 will keep you hooked! In this series, situations intensify to a greater level with more deaths, more mayhem and more characters. As the series opens, Jim Fenner is Acting G Wing Governor and is resolute that things will go his way and he'll be made permanent Wing Governor. However, he has two enemies out to get him, Stewart and Dockley. Helen returns from her leave as Wing Governor and sends Fenner back to uniform. Dockley starts calling Mrs. Fenner and successfully convinces her that Fenner is being unfaithful. Fenner isn't having it and is determined not to let Dockley or Stewart ruin him. His solution is to beat up Dockley and snub Helen. Prison Governor Stubberfield refuses to support Helen when she starts disciplinary proceedings against Fenner and so Helen resigns! New Senior Officer Karen Betts is fast-tracked to Wing Governor in her place. New characters are introduced including Di Barker, a rather chirpy prison officer, as well as Shaz Whiley, a friend for Denny and also Atkins' arch-nemesis turns up to get even with her. As things turn out, Atkins gets her way. As usual there are many twists and turns. There's the usual comic moments with the 2 Julies, Shaz and Denny, but also sadder moments when Zandra dies from cancer, leaving her baby Robbie and personal officer Dominic behind, a man she grows to love. An exciting series, leaving you wanting more, especially in the last episode when Dockley gets even with Fenner, and to make matters worse for Fenner, Stewart makes a triumphant return as Head of the Lifers'Unit, working for the Home Office, leaving her untouchable by Stubberfield and Fenner!
STRONGLY RECOMMENDED
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The Second Series of a Successful Prison Drama, 11 Feb 2007
The second series of Bad Girls is in my opinion more eventful and better than the first. The series in general is really great and is really interesting from start to finish.
Series 1 ended with two things; Monica Lindsey's release from prison, and G-Wing governor Helen Stewart breaking up with her fiance Sean. Series 2 begins where series 1 left of. Helen hasn't been to work in a while, and Jim fenner is now acting wing governor, and it's unlikely that Helen will return. Jim sits there in her office acting smug about this for a short while, but recieves a bit of a shock and finds that Helen has returned. Ha. G- Wing sees a new officer join Larkhall, Karen Betts. Helen soon leaves Larkhall, and is replaced by Karen herself, who is more strict then Helen. Helen does return shortly afterwards with a new job, helping lifers (and that includes Wade). Helen however isn't seen that much in the series; you see a bit of her at the start, then near towards the end, and a couple of times in between. Taking this into consideration it would have been better to have had Karen on the cover of this series box set and Helen on the cover of the third series box set.
Zandra Placket has her baby (whom she names Robbie) but sadly loses custody of her child, and further tragic events follow. Series 2 also continues (begins really) a storyline that was created at the end of the first series. Jim's wife Marilyn has lately been recieving letters from Shell Dockley herself, spilling the beans about her afair with Jim, also writing it from the perspective of somebody else. The second episode begins with Marilyn recieving anonymous phone calls from Shell herself (who also puts on a voice) Jim is certain that Nikki is behind it (I won't say anymore).
Series 2 also introduces new characters (Betts I've mentioned). Series 2 brings in Di Barker, a transfer from another wing, and new inmates Barbara Hunt and Shaz Wiley. Crystal Gordon finds romance in this series with a maintenence guy named Josh Mitchel, and Yvonne Atkins is brilliant in this series, who not only helps her fellow inmates out (such as finding a way for Julie J to see her children) but also makes the show that more entertaining. The funniest thing she does is starting the "Babes Behind Bars" scam with Denny, Shell and the Julies.
And lastly this series really brings in the relationship between Nikki Wade and Helen Stewart. All in all, a fantastic series (my second favourite in fact), better then the first, and consists of 13 episodes (3 more then the first series). A must buy.
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