We even get a few glimpses into the high school for the Nadine storyline, and I do really feel that they made a mistake not to make more of the high school setting. Then there is the whole terrible plotline about who Donnas real father is.
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Audrey and Bobby are part of Bens plot, Shelly has the short romance with Gordon, James has basically no agency in the Evelyn plot (and then just disappears from the show), Mike(who I don't think we've seen for like a dozen episodes) becomes Nadines boyfriend. Barely any of them get any real screentime and even when they do they are mostly relegated to be in someone elses plotline. Sadly, the high school characters are really relegated to secondary characters in this second half of the season. I know a lot of people hate James, but the Donna/James/Laura triangle was incredibly important to the mystery in the first season and I always found the Donna/James romance to be quite touching. One big thing that has been missing this entire backhalf though, and which I think really was a big part of the appeal of the whole series: The teenage melodrama. There's still plenty here that doesn't work though: The John Justice Wheeler/Audrey romance is terrible, the continuing Eckhard storyline doesn't really work, the Miss Twin Peaks contest just seems very forced. The terrible "Josie as a maid" storyline is over, the James/Evelyn plot is done, Little Nicky is nowhere to be seen (although the Dick/Andy/Lucy plotline is still not resolved), Ben has finally regained his mind, the whole drug enterprise is over. It still isn't quite there, with some plotlines really working better than others.Ī lot of it is just silly fun, but still, those parts work way better than anything in the mid-season. It really kinda feels like a second new start, with most of the mid-season plotlines resolved or dropped. Me and two friends are finally getting to the end of season 2 (we really kinda fell off for a while, the middle of season 2 really drags) and it's crazy how much the show catches itself once Annie is introduced.