Shoushimin Series 2nd Season

Where there were first cute self-contained stories, there is now S U S P E N S E. This show is drip-feeding me information and I am on the ground SLOBBERING it up. Osanai is standing over me. Smiling.

There is a single overarching narrative now, and even though Osanai hardly gets any screentime, she's THERE. The entire time. In the background, you know she's there. The whole tone has shifted. Osanai is a manipulative MENACE. The suspense is palpable, and I feel like I've self-inflicted it somehow? There's not even THAT much going on every episode, yet the whole time I'm sitting there thinking "What ... the fuck is she doing?? How far is she going to take... whatever this is?? How dangerous is she actually??". Every time she's on screen, she is the one in control. There is a scene in episode 3, and it is just, so good. How do you make DROPPING A PIECE OF PAPER ON THE GROUND so fucking scary?!! They made her scary in a way that I have not seen many other characters be scary. It's not "creepy" scary, it's "intimidating" scary, mentally intimidating. It's all just the right amount of "there's something really fucked up going on here but I JUST don't quite know what it is".

I'm so fucking hooked. It's rare for me to say that a second season is better than the first, usually shows that are interesting initially lose the magic they had because what made it interesting gets old, or drawn out. But not this. It's episode 3 and I'm way more invested in what's going on now than I was all of season one. If it can keep this level of suspense for the rest of the season AND lead to an interesting conclusion, I might have to change my rating to a 10.

9/10

Oh and it's still as cinematic and beautiful as the first season