Season 1 was brilliant in how the story slowly lets the characters unfold in time with the story (there's a sense that something massive is going to happen, something to change course of time as we know it, forever). Season 2 speeds up that pace, which is fine. But it's repetitive in its dramaturgical build-up, and when characters aren't threedimensional it just gets boring. Breaking Bad is an excellent example of a tv-show that needed time to develop the character's story arch, and they deserved it due to world class acting and writing. Hughie's attempt at portraying himself as the centrepiece of the story, the protagonist if you like, the one who battles with the morale aspect of it all, when all we see is just a whimp or a sad pathetic little cunt. The pay-off for watching him walking around making faces for 10 one-hour episodes straight, is not even close to enough considering how outright painful and frustrating it is to see him trying to master complex emotional distress for his character. Having said that, his ending for season 2 makes sense, as does the others, it tails off nicely, saves it by a thread, but there's not much suspense left to play on. Another character that became one-dimensional is Butcher, and the sad lacklustre attempt at trying to give him some depths by introducing his father and the backstory of his brother, why did we even need to know that?? So him hanging out with Hughie would make sense? Yeah sure, but did you really have to spend an entire episode on it?? Juggling around different character archs seemed to be difficult for the writers on season 2. and the show's strengths from the first season; explicit scenes thru blood and gore and sex and shocking fetishes - became the shows cheapshots for the second season. It didn't really have much more to offer. There's a lot complexity with surrounding characters that aren't allowed enough time and space. I honestly got mostly pissed off watching it all unfold as I was so fascinated by the first season. Hearing midway thru season 2 that they're doing a spin-off series to just makes me sick, and dreadding the upcoming spam of content from amazon that is just full of gory cheapshots. I smell a new superhero franschise that is literally DC comics on a budget, and that's a real budget.