I was on the fence about this season, i didn't hate it not the way many did for reasons such as it played with a serious problem badly and it made light and glorified a big teen crises, in fact i like that it talked about difficult subjects such as suicide, religion , bullying, lack of adult supervision, rich entitlement, power of money, recklessness of adults with serious teen problems,cruelty, the effect of small gestures on different personalities ,etc , these are hard subjects to discuss therefore the hate and backlash against the show was expected if not needed , they are problems that are really hard to speak about and represent truthfully and i think the show did it's best to try and convey a meaningful message , and the actors did a great job with it . my problem with season 2 is more about the links with season 1 and the plot holes , for me the show ended in season 1 or it should have , what the show did was go back in time and create new stories and new character flows and new plot lines that benefit the story in no obvious way , and it only adds confusion and a lot more questions and it slows the pace of the show to becoming extremely boring at some points, most of these were fillers and didn't do much for the progress of the story but only messed with the credibility of the first season for no apparent reason. i expected the writers to continue the show in a way that didnt feel like a bad "pretty little liars " spin-off .