ETA: i tried to review S2 without spoilering but, if any y'all think i should cover any of it, lemme know. Reader beware, i guess.
Finished S2 of Mindhunter and ended up quite disappointed after many promising moments. Lotta stretching & filling (apparently, 8 eps became 9 eps cuz Netflix wanted 10 eps like last season) and, ultimately, disruptive & gratuitous story arcs. Rarely have i seen a more poorly-conceived sub-plot than Tench's kid. If that had actually happened to one of the principals the series was based on, i would have had to bury it for its clunky distractiveness. To make it up as a structural pile-on is confounding, and i originally liked the angle of an already unlikely BSU agent w a problem kid at home. And Wendy Carr's personal subplot devolved into more clumsy underlining of her loneliness arc from S1 when, if Anna Torv needed more screen time while everyone was in Atlanta, they had given themselves the ingredients of an important arc with her "outing" herself in one of the interviews. The post-Hoover FBI woulda had a field day with that, but....... And Atlanta itself was a clusterhug that was always going to be disappointing, but was still underwritten. Not as disappointing an S2 as Ozark, but......