Where season one we saw a team that was working together most of the episodes under the leadership of Murn (Chukwudi Iwuji), who by the way isn’t even mentioned once, as also these parasitic aliens, in season two, they aren’t a team for most of the whole season, except in the finale for a very brief moment. And where in the first season you had an adversary in the form of the alien parasites, project butterfly, in season two, there basically is no external adversary, only internal, in the form of Rick Flag Sr. and A.R.G.U.S. . For me this was a disappointment.

When Chris stumbles into this alternate dimension, seeing his brother, his father who loves him, it is understandable that Chris doesn’t want to go back. He has his brother back, he is respected by his father and Harcourt is an entirely different woman, one whom he can have a relationship with. When his friends try to get him back, it is understandable he doesn’t want to go back, but then the ultimate bomb drops, it is Earth X, the Nazi planet, all this time Chris hadn’t noticed there only were white people, the big fat wallpaper of Hitler at A.R.G.U.S., the Nazi flags. I mean, yes, Chris is perhaps not the most observant human being, but missing that wallpaper of Hitler, that does say something about him, or perhaps about the writing. So, at one point Ads is walking outside, not knowing about all this Nazi stuff and suddenly people actually are coming after her, chasing her, wanting to lynch her or something, when she is saved by the Judomaster, she actually says: Not sure if this Nazi world is so different from our own world as we wish it was? And Judomaster responds: Damn straight! – I mean, I know our world has issues, I know there is much to improve and it certainly is not perfect, but to say our world is probably not so different than Earth X, that really knocks my socks off! Sure, I do not live in the USA, but I cannot imagine this taking place there every day?! Run for your life to get to work, to the grocery store? And at work or the grocery store doing the same? I do think James Gunn entered this sentence purposely, so, basically James Gunn thinks we are all racist?

In today’s television, creators, writers are often trying to push you into directions you should think or behave. In the past, the creators, writers gave you a dilemma and gave you food for thought. They did not push you into a specific direction, they just wanted you to think about the subject in question. These days, it seems that you aren’t allowed to think for yourself anymore.

What happens just before they escape from the Nazi world, Auggie turns out to be understanding of what happened with his son, killed by Chris from our world! I thought this was interesting and very surprising, and I was looking forward to see this continued because Auggie in Earth X wasn’t or didn’t appear to be a bad guy or even a racist. But within a minute Adrian comes by and kills him in a gruesome way while this really could have been an interesting turn of events but apparently a massive murder fest was much more interesting to the makers.

When Flag gets hold of the portal device, he only has one goal, to find a suitable planet, for what, he doesn’t tell to his subordinates, but he basically wants this planet, calling it ‘Salvation’, to become a prison to all dangerous people, metahumans and of course peacemaker. Checking out these portals costs many lives, but Flag can live with that easily, he celebrates every new positive information while behind him injured and death colleagues are being dragged back in from the different portals.

Well everything was building up to the season finale, after two tiny episodes of 36 and 33 minutes and the season finale was….lackluster! I’ve read and heard the term “nothing burger” and that this perhaps is the best term for it, I expected an explosive finale, it went out with a whimper, a cliff-hanger and as of yet, no discussions for a season 3. In the finale the team and some A.R.G.U.S. members create a new agency called Checkmate, which perhaps could turn into something new. Basically this season storyline was about Chris and Harcourt, will they or won’t they get together, that is perhaps the best way you can describe this season. One moment actually gave me a lump in the throat, that was when Eagly put his wing around Economos, yes, I am a sucker for Eagly, and this season Economos definitely was one of my favorite characters for sure, can there be someone more anti-hero than he is? I also have a soft spot for Ads aka Leota Adebayo (Danielle Brooks) but I felt this season she was a bit underused. I mean, she was there, but that was mostly it, while in season one she had actual story-arc of her own. This season arc with her girlfriend was just too thin.

Final Word:

Well, as I said, overall I enjoyed the second season, but I think this story could have told in a two-hour movie instead of eight episodes. I didn’t need a love story between Chris and Harcourt, I wanted more fun, the same kind of blast season one was, and perhaps also a little more depth into the other characters. And yes, I had a few issues with season two, perhaps a few more than I’ve written down, but you get the gist of it. Do I recommend it? Well, as long as you don’t expect an as much fun season as the first because than you will be sorely disappointed.

Screencaps taken from: cap-that.com

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