My overall rating of "Dead like me"'s Season 2: 7/10.
I had remembered the series' final episode being very bad, with Mason's face turning blue from the dry ice being a particular lowpoint of cartoonishness. Well, that episode _is_ bad, and perhaps drives a lot of the sentiment that I've seen, that seems unfounded otherwise: that Season 2, or specifically its second half, is bad in its entirety. I'm at a loss as to why this episode is the highest-rated of the series, when it should rather be the opposite. At least "Nighthawks" had a brilliant plotline buried below the clipshow.
In S2 there are 3 episodes that I consider bad: this one, "The escape artist" and "Death defying", but at least "TEA" had the fun plane plotline and the seeming telegraphing that the noose was tightening on George's identity; and "DD" had George finally arrive to a common-sense realisation, that her behaviour in the Trip arc has been bonkers, in the end. In this one, on the contrary, George concludes the series by doing something so stupid, Mason would be ashamed to mess up that badly. The boredom and plotholes that this episode introduces are just too immense even without that final kick in the 'nads.
I had remembered the series' final episode being very bad, with Mason's face turning blue from the dry ice being a particular lowpoint of cartoonishness. Well, that episode _is_ bad, and perhaps drives a lot of the sentiment that I've seen, that seems unfounded otherwise: that Season 2, or specifically its second half, is bad in its entirety. I'm at a loss as to why this episode is the highest-rated of the series, when it should rather be the opposite. At least "Nighthawks" had a brilliant plotline buried below the clipshow.
In S2 there are 3 episodes that I consider bad: this one, "The escape artist" and "Death defying", but at least "TEA" had the fun plane plotline and the seeming telegraphing that the noose was tightening on George's identity; and "DD" had George finally arrive to a common-sense realisation, that her behaviour in the Trip arc has been bonkers, in the end. In this one, on the contrary, George concludes the series by doing something so stupid, Mason would be ashamed to mess up that badly. The boredom and plotholes that this episode introduces are just too immense even without that final kick in the 'nads.
