I assume the rave reviews were posted while only the first episodes had been released, as they're quite enjoyable, but there's no way a self-respecting viewer can accept this as remotely decent drama after that absolute trainwreck of a finish. Man those last episodes were painful.
When the 2nd season of a masterpiece is released so soon after the masterpiece itself it's usually not a good sign, especially when the star-writer is already doing so many things at once (Yellowstone, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, etc.). One can only have so much inspiration, and it was all used-up long before this season could be wrapped-up.
So it has all the fat tricks of a botched sequel made under producers pressure and tight deadlines, and then worse. Fillers, added exoticism and spectacular events to make up for the lack of inspiration, hollow dialogues, soapy, fragmented storylines, corny romance, gratuitously lewd scenes, cartoon villains being pure evil in every possible way, music artificially building tension, cheap & almost explicit political messages (from all sides), etc.
They obviously intend to make a 2nd season of it and maybe that's why the story is stretched so thin, but who would want to watch it?
When the 2nd season of a masterpiece is released so soon after the masterpiece itself it's usually not a good sign, especially when the star-writer is already doing so many things at once (Yellowstone, Tulsa King, Mayor of Kingstown, etc.). One can only have so much inspiration, and it was all used-up long before this season could be wrapped-up.
So it has all the fat tricks of a botched sequel made under producers pressure and tight deadlines, and then worse. Fillers, added exoticism and spectacular events to make up for the lack of inspiration, hollow dialogues, soapy, fragmented storylines, corny romance, gratuitously lewd scenes, cartoon villains being pure evil in every possible way, music artificially building tension, cheap & almost explicit political messages (from all sides), etc.
They obviously intend to make a 2nd season of it and maybe that's why the story is stretched so thin, but who would want to watch it?