DA VINCIS DEMONS Season 2

 

201- THE BLOOD OF MAN

202- THE BLOOD OF BROTHERS

203- THE VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED

204- THE ENDS OF THE EARTH

205- THE SUN AND THE MOON

 

 

 

The second season of Da Vinci’s Demons is a very interesting season from the five episodes I have watched.  It has involved blood transfusions, amplified sound, and a submarine.  It also reveals the journey it took for Da Vinci and Riario took to get to the first scene of the first episode (and that journey isn’t over by the end of episode five). The first two episodes wrap up the cliffhangers from the end of the first season before Da Vinci gets back on his quest for the Book of Leaves and answers about his mother, but Riario is also taking the same journey.   Lucrezia Donati plots her revenge against Pope Sixtus IV and the story is very interesting indeed, but I thought parts of that story were already revealed in season one.

 

Still I like how the second season is shaping up with the new characters they are throwing in like Amerigo Vespucci and the bastard child of the Medici family.  David S. Goyer and the writing staff are definitely taking creative license with Leonardo Da Vinci since he had a two year gap where no one knew where he was while they also weave in the usual historical events of the time.   I do like how they are involving what are (probably) the Incas in this season and the production design seems to have a bigger budget than last season with some location work for the South America scenes.   I am a big fan of the small moments like Leonardo posing as Riario in the first scene of THE VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED that it made me think of Riario for a few moments before I realized it was Da Vinci and also the same episode features a moment where Da Vinci has to draw a better picture of himself on a wanted poster (when he complains it doesn’t anything like him).  I’m intrigued by where the rest of the season will go and how they will continue to weave history into the plot.  I also wonder if they will do a little jump in time for season 3 since history has some very interesting things to draw from.