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Product Description Compelling characters and intricate plot twists make this riveting crime drama one of television’s slickest, sexiest shows! Matt Bomer returns as sophisticated conman Neal Caffrey, who teams up with FBI Agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay) to investigate an intriguing array of crimes ranging from extortion to murder. Now, reeling from the death of his girlfriend, Neal struggles to unlock the secret behind a mysterious music box and find Kate’s killer, even as his partnership with Peter begins to crumble. Featuring exclusive extras, including a character spotlight on Mozzie and behind-the-scenes with Matt Bomer, White Collar Season Two is not to be missed! Amazon.com White Collar cleverly fuses the delicate thrills of the heist genre (where everything has to go just right) with the dogged pursuit of the police procedural (where the police dig until the criminals do something wrong). The ridiculously good-looking Matt Bomer stars as reformed (well, maybe) con artist Neal Caffrey, who works for the FBI under the guidance/control of strait-laced agent Peter Burke (Tim DeKay). This odd-couple pair investigate con games, bank robberies, jewel smuggling, political corruption, counterfeiting, corporate skullduggery, and much more, often featuring sneaky undercover activity. The first season ended with Neal's girlfriend getting blown up in an airplane; the thread through the second season follows Neal's investigation of that explosion--along with the mysterious music box, which Neal's partner-in-crime Mozzie (Willie Garson, still best known as Carrie's best pal Sanford from Sex and the City) finally deciphers. At the season's end, an old mentor of Neal's emerges from the shadows, pulling an amazing treasure up from the depths… a treasure that Neal may not be able to resist. Bomer and DeKay have a nice rapport, and the supporting cast members (including Tiffani Thiessen as Burke's sensible wife, Marsha Thomason and Sharif Atkins as FBI agents, Diahann Carroll as Neal's landlady, and Hilarie Burton, an insurance investigator who becomes a new love interest for Neal) play their parts with a light touch. White Collar is a sprightly show; even its more dramatic scenes are played more for plot momentum than real drama. But, much like with the rogue covert agent show Burn Notice, that lightness is part of the charm. Think of it as the snack cracker of television; nothing you want to see all the time, but when you get a taste, it's hard not to empty the box. --Bret Fetzer
which strikes me as odd because the strength of this series is the relationship between Matt Bomer's Neal Caffrey and DeKay's Peter Burke. The vagaries of marketing aside, this is, for my money, the best series on television right now. Willie Garson plays Neal's eccentric friend Mozzie and Tiffani Thiessen is Peter's wife Elizabeth. Cleverly written with a very strong cast, season two opens with conman/thief Caffrey back in prison and FBI agent Burke fighting to get him released again - and get himself reinstated back at the FBI. It's a tall order but everything moves fast in White Collar and this is no exception.Season Two is chock full of really good episodes, some of which seem more like you're watching a movie other than a modestly budgeted TV series. There was only episode I really didn't like; the retrospective Forging Bonds, which pretty much threw the series timeline to the wind, odd for a show that usually keeps to a very strict line. We see how Neal meet Moz and together they picked a dubious target, the mysterious Trump like financier Vincent Adler (Andrew McCarthy). Neal also met his great love Kate, the thief/fence Alex Hunter and, to his dismay, ended up on the radar of FBI Agent Burke. This episode was weak and a rarity, almost dull in places. But it's the only one, folks. The rest are solid or top drawer.My favorites: Withdrawal (season opener, see above); By the Book, a Mozzie episode that is by turns humorous and dangerous. Prisoner's Dilemma, a turnaround where Peter is forced to go on the run with a rogue FBI agent while Neal tries to cover at the FBI for him. Company Man, a rare look at Peter's life choices and talents when he and Neal go undercover at a high tech company. It has a near deadly twist at the end. Burke's Seven, the mid season opener that finds the entire gang looking for Mozzie's shooter and then things get even more interesting with Peter on suspension for evidence tampering. The elaborate con Neal and Peter put together trying to right the wrongs is fascinating to watch. My personal favorite is Payback. Neal's odious arch enemy, Matthew Keller, is back again, this time with a new mission, get himself out of prison and make Neal pay for his triumph in last season's episode Bottlenecked. Keller ups the ante this time though but having an associate kidnap Agent Burke. A tense, fast moving episode that concludes with my favorite scene, Neal on the phone to an imprisoned Peter, who has partially freed himself, trying to 'talk him through a jailbreak'. Excellent episode.This DVD set lacks all the opulent extras the first season had, to my disappointment but the price is significantly lower. The White Collar cast is one of the few though that I actually do listen to the commentaries and we only have three, none of them on the really strong episodes. (Go figure) You do get a gag reel though (again, funny although not as long as season 1)and a rather long commercial for Burn Notice/White Collar, where the show's creators and writers roast/compliment each other. Its okay but nothing I would have paid for though. Also, something called Slick Willie (I'm assuming Garson) but I have not watched it yet.All in all, I highly recommend White Collar. I only started watching the show a couple episodes in on season two and I'm hooked. It is one of the few shows on television that the writing is not predictable and the acting is superb. Try it; I really doubt that you'll be disappointed.
