It packs eight incisive audio commentaries by the producers, writers, directors and stars across six discs. The DVD package rewards fans of the show. However, the show avoids slipping into cheesiness due to its strong writing and smart casting starting with lead, Matt Dallas, who plays Kyle as strange, yet always sympathetic. It’s really a whitebread soap opera about teens searching for their identity. With its brooding pacing, paranoid atmosphere and setting in the American northwest (filmed in B.C.), KYLE XY sometimes feels like the son of X-Files. Jessi becomes Kyle’s foil: vicious and ready to kill. She roams the Seattle area until the company that created her, Madacorp, hunts her down and reprograms her into Jessi. In season two, a major storyline emerges when an “XX” female like Kyle (played by Jaimie Alexander) is “hatched” and wakes up naked in a forest as a wild savage. Meanwhile, Kyle further develops his attraction to neighbour girl Amanda (Kirsten Prout). This strains Kyle’s relationship with parents Nicole and Stephen (Marguerite MacIntyre & Bruce Thomas) who continue to prefer Kyle to their own teenage children, Lori and Josh. However, Kyle keeps his studies with Baylin secret from the Tragers, his adopted family. The crucial one being that Adam wasn’t born, but created in a lab. Eddie Peck) who teaches Kyle about his otherworldly powers, like mental telepathy, and provides further clues about his origins. In season two (a full 23 episodes compared to the opening season’s 10), Kyle’s continues to study under Adam Baylin (J. Yet Kyle he possesses superhuman strength and a powerful brain that can do complex calculus like most of us add one plus one.
In fact, Kyle woke with no memories at all and no connection to any family, place or time. That’s never been truer as in the case of Kyle XY (Matt Dallas) who in season one of this ABC Family series woke up nude in a forest near Seattle with no memory of how he got there. Most teens don’t feel like they belong to their peers, family and sometimes the human race. KYLE XY takes teen alienation to a whole new level.
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