The second season of this Vimeo original continues in the same way as the first season came out. In the same way as it ever has, we follow the guy delivering drugs on his bicycle, through a range of characters, some of whom reoccur and connect across stories. Mostly we have two characters per episode, so we have around 15 minutes with each, which is comparable to some of the original webseries. This season we have a range of the quirky characters who are shaped by the vitality of the city around them in the same way as rural life promotes a slower pace.
In this season there is much to like, and the writing continues to be good when it comes to creating characters, making connections, and producing something which is not so much 'funny' but engaging, amusing, moving, and all other things which real people are. This in a nutshell is what I like about the show, is that it finds the people in the quirks. That said, I do wish it did it more because this season continues that trend from the first, which is that it is not quite as heartfelt as the best of the Vimeo episodes. There are moments of real humanity and pathos, but not enough, and some characters either just play to the quirk, or they don't have the space to fully engage and deliver - mostly the latter.
Despite this feeling though, I still very much enjoyed each episode. The pace and content varied, and some were better than others but overall it engaged and pleased me throughout. The focus on alternative lifestyles of all ilk's is not new to the show (indeed it has been its core value since the start) and here it continued, and as before it both didn't bother me at all, but yet also stood out in my line of vision as a thing it was doing. The writing helps it be a non-issue, but at the same time there are deliberate choices being made along the way here. In some small way it breaks it out of feeling grounded, but mostly it has sufficient strength in other ways to cover this.
Another great collection of episodes from this show, but for the third I do hope they try to deliver more than tastes of the characters they bring in - which is really the only gripe I have about it.
In this season there is much to like, and the writing continues to be good when it comes to creating characters, making connections, and producing something which is not so much 'funny' but engaging, amusing, moving, and all other things which real people are. This in a nutshell is what I like about the show, is that it finds the people in the quirks. That said, I do wish it did it more because this season continues that trend from the first, which is that it is not quite as heartfelt as the best of the Vimeo episodes. There are moments of real humanity and pathos, but not enough, and some characters either just play to the quirk, or they don't have the space to fully engage and deliver - mostly the latter.
Despite this feeling though, I still very much enjoyed each episode. The pace and content varied, and some were better than others but overall it engaged and pleased me throughout. The focus on alternative lifestyles of all ilk's is not new to the show (indeed it has been its core value since the start) and here it continued, and as before it both didn't bother me at all, but yet also stood out in my line of vision as a thing it was doing. The writing helps it be a non-issue, but at the same time there are deliberate choices being made along the way here. In some small way it breaks it out of feeling grounded, but mostly it has sufficient strength in other ways to cover this.
Another great collection of episodes from this show, but for the third I do hope they try to deliver more than tastes of the characters they bring in - which is really the only gripe I have about it.
