Kathryn Clippard

Horrible, terrible second season. The first season was okay, it was fun and had good twists and turns and seemed to know what it was about. The casting and cinematography made it better than it should have been. The second season is a mishmash of moods and ideas that never gel. Comedy? Black comedy? Melodrama? You get a whiplash of moods that do not make for a coherent or consistent experience. This season asks us to suspend our disbelief on too many levels, the first and most distracting being, that a hot, sexy man would EVER be attracted to an insecure, ugly woman. He wouldn't. I don't care if he doesn't remember who he is, as a human being, surely he'd want someone around who isn't insufferably judgmental and morally high handed; surely he'd want someone who has something, anything to offer other than her own sense of moral superiority, and this woman has zero. There's no chemistry between them, and we're meant to believe that (spoiler alert) after she f*$&ing DUMPS HIM when he's in jail, when she demonstrates that she doesn't have confidence in him or believe in him as a person, he takes her back?! No. And the stupid and repeated idea that "love isn't enough" must come from a writer who hasn't the first notion of what love is. The writing is so bad I feel like there's a dare behind it, as in: how bad can I make this and still get paid? Or a vendetta, like this show is an "ef you" to someone. Danielle Macdonald is a bad actress, which makes the character she plays worse. I don't know how or why she got cast, but she's the only cast member who doesn't have the acting skills to be there. Everyone else: very good to excellent. They elevate the material. And here again, the cinematography was excellent. The show is shot like it's a movie, beautiful camera work, colors, lighting, all of it. Everything is so well done, except Danielle Macdonald and the writing.