The first 5 eps of S2 are straight up bad

by Mike (bart), Thursday, July 13, 2023, 10:56 (1068 days ago) @ Jay

Just finished ep 6 which is the Christmas episode and a masterpiece. First half of the season is so far up its own ass that it feels like a 19 year old's vision of opening a restaurant.

Also, there's this very silly thing they do where they go out of their way to shoehorn in some Chicago thing in a way that totally distracts from the main narrative. Like in Ep 5, Carmen needs to drop off the liquor license permit application, which apparently requires him to drive to a post office in Winnetka? It doesn't even make good nonsense. I understand they wanted to get the characters in a car but there are sane ways to do that which don't involve name dropping a north shore suburb like it's some kind of easter egg