Season One was magical. Something new, something funny.
Now it is a knockoff the parts of what made Season One work but as a collection of barely integrated scenes. Just using the characters as puppets to say things we expect them to say. They have missed the whole.
Each of these two episodes was just marking time until they hit the cliffhanger in the last 40 seconds.
Scenes like what and how he eats is a cute flourish, not a plot point which then seems to go nowhere. His name calling with the kids is sort of funny, but now pointless. Why is the young boy a complete nitwit this season? He went from naive but able to form a plan with his little friend; maybe she is right, space did something, like drop his IQ by 30pts.
I believe there is a rule where if you can take something out of a story and the story doesn't change then you take it out. The problem in applying that rule to these last two episodes would be only five minutes would remain; or less.
Maybe a few of these things have some "gun on the mantelpiece" aspect that will prove valuable later, but every "lead" is being ground out.
Then we have the editing. I don't think they have much to work with but it is just a bunch of scenes that don't flow together. Just scenes. Here we are in the lake, here we are in the diner, here we are somewhere else.
Something is missing from this show now. Something core. I highly suspect it is at least one someone who is missing or many a few missing someones.
I have recommended this show to so very many people and now I am having to apologize.