Midway through the second season as I type.
I like it – I found myself OD’ing on the first season, and setting it aside about halfway through before returning and hungrily devouring the rest of it. This second season is… interesting?
It feels like there’s been a shift that the writers haven’t quite managed to come to terms with, with Frank in the VP seat. There’s no throughline like the Russo plot of the first season, and Frank’s new duties mean that he seems too removed from the tightly focused scrum of party politics the year before.
Tonally, it feels like it’s lurched more towards dark comedy – while I admired the “You probably think I’ve forgotten about you” monologue at the end of the first episode, everything feels a little bit more cartoonish this time around, and it was hardly the least cartoonish show to begin with.
Overall, I like it, and I’m going to keep watching. But this year feels problematic in a way that the first didn’t.