I believe my initial fear going into the season was one of the failings. Too many characters. Especially for a single season. If your multiple season, with rich source content like GoT, then maybe you can get away with it, but this didn't work. To much to do all at once. Characters weren't properly fleshed out. One of the things that drove season one, was the duality of the two main characters. This season it felt like the tried to one up it by making it more complicated and having more characters. It didn't work. I never does.
One of the very first lessons you learn in drama is don't introduce more characters unless you absolutely have to. They would have done well to follow this rule. When Woodrugh died, I wasn't sad. I even said, 'well he WAS the most boring character.'
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