Having watched seasons 1 and 2 I find it enjoyable to watch.
Season 1 was almost great but the last two episodes sent it back to barely tolerable.
You invest a ton of time to have very little resolved and a huge cliffhanger.
Season 2 had some really interesting concepts that they weave together.
But the love drama and flip flopping are a total joke and wasted scenes - simple no reason for it.
Like "Team America" "I will never die" moments over and over again.
Writers withholding information that people would lever do. That is way overused storytelling technique. Very lazy.
The moments of "building tension" are a joke. Those could almost all be cut.
They are invincible, Establishing a dengerious situation is enough. Cutting back 2 or three times "Oh gosh! Will they escape?!" Yes... yes they will. Get back to the story.
Or the kids sneaking through the halls - they NEVER get caught.
They can roam anywhere at anytime - keys to everything - any room - pick up guns and drugs or whatever. No problem.
After a few episodes of this you just ignore the "sneaking around" moments.
The long scenes trying to build tension are simply a waste of time.
Talking of time - they pay no attention to it.
One scene a character is overdosing - next scene (presumably 30 minutes later) they are all cleaned up and running through the woods.
So many examples to bother listing.
Just know they are invincible (of course they are) they heal as fast as needed to move the story along.
And the story IS interesting, Corporate greed, mystical legends, conflicts of identity and the standard teen trope of stupid adults underestimating the super smart kids.
Somehow it all works nicely together.
But then the most unsatisfactory endings possible.
It looked all queued up to have closure of at least one or two of the over TEN arcs we are required to track.
Even down to the last scene where they bust open two arcs almost closed.
It's just treating the audience as idiots.
They must have gotten the email renewing for a new season on the last day of shooting and lazily just decided to queue up another season of the same arcs.
Fun watch - but don't expect closure.
Season 1 was almost great but the last two episodes sent it back to barely tolerable.
You invest a ton of time to have very little resolved and a huge cliffhanger.
Season 2 had some really interesting concepts that they weave together.
But the love drama and flip flopping are a total joke and wasted scenes - simple no reason for it.
Like "Team America" "I will never die" moments over and over again.
Writers withholding information that people would lever do. That is way overused storytelling technique. Very lazy.
The moments of "building tension" are a joke. Those could almost all be cut.
They are invincible, Establishing a dengerious situation is enough. Cutting back 2 or three times "Oh gosh! Will they escape?!" Yes... yes they will. Get back to the story.
Or the kids sneaking through the halls - they NEVER get caught.
They can roam anywhere at anytime - keys to everything - any room - pick up guns and drugs or whatever. No problem.
After a few episodes of this you just ignore the "sneaking around" moments.
The long scenes trying to build tension are simply a waste of time.
Talking of time - they pay no attention to it.
One scene a character is overdosing - next scene (presumably 30 minutes later) they are all cleaned up and running through the woods.
So many examples to bother listing.
Just know they are invincible (of course they are) they heal as fast as needed to move the story along.
And the story IS interesting, Corporate greed, mystical legends, conflicts of identity and the standard teen trope of stupid adults underestimating the super smart kids.
Somehow it all works nicely together.
But then the most unsatisfactory endings possible.
It looked all queued up to have closure of at least one or two of the over TEN arcs we are required to track.
Even down to the last scene where they bust open two arcs almost closed.
It's just treating the audience as idiots.
They must have gotten the email renewing for a new season on the last day of shooting and lazily just decided to queue up another season of the same arcs.
Fun watch - but don't expect closure.