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Runaways Season 2



I don't know how I forgot to write about this, but here we are. I finished the second season of Runaways a few weeks ago and yet I didn't write my thoughts down. I'm seriously slipping.

Because I can't remember all the finer details, I guess this will be a shorter review. My gift to you, my dear reader.

In short, I thought the second season of Runaways, while good, didn't capture the magic for me like the first season. In fact, I thought this season was a lot more middling. I'll try to explain without giving away in big plot points.

In the last season, you had this whole mystery about how bad WERE the Pride. Our heroes fought against them and eventually ran away, hence the title. It's about branding people! This season, they ran away so... now what? That's what this season feels like. They get into misadventures, they clash with their parents multiple times and it feels like everyone turns on each other at some point. Maybe the point is that families fight and then come back together?

First of all, the show is still well acted. I like the kids and the parents. The special effects on Old Lace is still fairly decent, but the effects on Karolina and her father look a little weird.

What I also like about this show is there has not been any world domination type take over. It's all localized within LA, so I love that the show is self contained in that way. Also, like the first season, the locale of LA makes for a much brighter back drop than all the Netflix Marvel shows that take place in the darkest, grittiest parts of New York.

Now before I get to the things I didn't like, I appreciated that each character had their own arc to work through. It helped to keep things moving, but also showed how untogether they were at times. No one really came out unscathed when it came to personal tragedy.

On the flip side, with all those arcs, it felt like there were too many things going on at once and then the show tried to make them all fit back together in nice little pieces. Sometimes it felt like the show was a series of vignettes. I also feel like we are spending way too much time with the parents. This show isn't about them and I don't care to see what their motivations are. Let's keep the focus on the main characters and how they are dealing with everything.

I know I may be coming off as negative here, but I really did like the show. We get introduced to a few new characters, Alex keeps switching back and forth between hairstyles and it felt like Molly kept getting betrayed by everyone. So, typical day in the Runaways universe.

I am glad this show got picked up for a third season because I am invested in the characters and I am happy for it's success.
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