Can we give Captain Cuck his crew their own forum or something? Every fucking thread is getting derailed.
Anyway like many here have said, Season 1 is definitely better. But I don't think this follow up season falls all that short. Other than episode 7, christ wtf was that? It's like they just thought wait let's try this and see what happens. Well it was awful. But besides that one episode, I thought the season was pretty good in general.
The thing is, this season was missing something that season 1 had which I've now seen 3 times. I think it was the fact we had a recognizable, yet completely unrecognizable main villain. We didn't know where the fuck it came from, how it interacted the electricity, the shady fukin people trying to cover everything it up. It was mysterious yet familiar in a way. That's what made the journey to understand everything so intriguing.
This season the main villain is a smoke monster nobody else but Will can see, and can apparently posses people. It's too much to grasp...I mean what chance does anyone have against something like that (other than 11 of course). Who was treated primarily just as a deux ex machine in the later episodes. The whole trip to Chicago (ep 7) just didn't work, it's almost like they wrote 8 episodes then someone was like oh btw, we're gonna do 9 this year and they just went SHIT.
Anyway my main criticism is it just that it didn't have that same intangible connection the first season had. But still, it was pretty fucking good compared to most TV. Much better than the season 2 of True Detectives.