I've totally lost patience with this show. All of season 2 has seemed like a shell game, constantly relying on hiding information, blatant lies, false leads (the whole Craig Robinson storyline), and manufactured cliff hangers to distract from the fact that there has been no real story development this season.
We started season 2 wondering what was next after the big hack, and that has not been answered in the slightest. This season we learned that Phase 2 comes next. And that's it.
Dom's investigations have netted nothing, and it seems like she's being written by two completely different people - one who writes the investigation scenes, who sees her as a focused, driven, never-take-no-for-an-answer pitbull, and one who writes her personal scenes, who sees her as a frail, weepy figure.
Angela's scenes have established one thing: the events that killed her mother have something to do with the Dark Army. As far as I can tell, that's it for the entire season.
Darlene's scenes have established...? What? That the Dark Army is dangerous? Anything else?
As for Elliot, his scenes have been nothing but filler. The first 2/3 of the season were a complete lie that didn't forward the story at all. And since then, everytime it could progress the story we/Elliott are shut out just before any actual information can be garnered.
In the end, IMO this show has become 95% style and 5% substance because the creators had no idea where to take the story after season 1 and/or fell in love with the smell of their own farts and became convinced that style=substance. Whatever the reality, it's ultimately amounted to wasting 10+ hours... Unless Esmail can pull massive rabbit out of his hat next week.
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