The main.character has been pretty much relegated to an extra in this season.
It's now a drama show about anyone and everyone, about tedious everyday interactions, and not the clever look at humanity from an alien's perspective.
Tudyk does his best with what he has to work with, and it got exactly three small chuckles out of us during the 40 minute episode. He's a fantastic actor who with the good material made us LoL pretty much throughout season one,
Example of the magnitude loss in writing quality was a joke about not fitting a cow through a bunker entrance. The classic semantic overlap, where a discussion involves two perspectives, where someone asks a question from the first perspective and gets the answer from the other. I'm still puzzled as to how the writers failed so utterly at making that sort of joke work. It sure wasn't the delivery.
I'll let this season run its course, and in autumn might fast-forward to the "Harry" scenes in hope of at least some chuckles.
I prayed they wouldn't change up the formula from season one, but here we are. Another fizzle.