'the end of the f***ing world' season 2 recap

Offering a new ending (that"s not really an ending) and a new story (that"s a lot lượt thích the old one), Charlie Covell"s sequel season proves the worrywarts right.

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“The End of the Fucking World”

Speaking literally, this is what “The End of the Fucking World” fans who didn’t want lớn see a Season 2 were most worried about — rewriting a great, sad ending in order khổng lồ tell a longer, less effective sầu story. And what happens next is both less effective sầu and seemingly designed lớn keep going into Season 3. It’s easy lớn watch. It’s well-acted, especially by Lawther. It’s even touching in small moments, when it’s not being manipulative. While Covell keeps the episodes at tight, less-than-30-minute clips và lets his characters mature into the wiser rebels they were primed lớn become at the end of Season 1, everything that happens in Season 2 feels primarily focused lớn keep telling a story that refuses khổng lồ engage with its original self.

In the beginning, what James and Alyssa fight to lớn escape is reality itself; theirs were so horrid that illegal road trips with psychopathic boys intent on killing you (or rude, demanding girls who wanted to lớn use you for your car) seem lượt thích enticing alternatives, và what they found in each other was the same thing they found in themselves. The love saved them, even when it was too late to lớn save sầu them.

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The same can’t be said after Season 2, and worse yet, there’s even less to lớn be said besides bitching about the kết thúc of this “Fucking World.” Continuing Alyssa và James’ odyssey in friendlier pastures neutralizes the urgency và power of their original endeavor. Forcing more drama onto lớn them after they’ve sầu left only feels forced. It’s a lose-thất bại scenario, and while I’ll always contover there’s a good way lớn keep telling many stories, this isn’t it. Season 2 is an empty shell of an epilogue that still usurps what it should be propping up.

Grade: C+

“The End of the Fucking World” Season 2 is streaming now on Netflix.

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