Season 2 sucks!!!

I can't watch it, I have it 3 episodes, it went from a 9 to a 1, absolute garbage.

Same here. Precisely. Episode 3 (S2) was the last straw. I'd watch the rest if it were included with the service, but not at two bucks a pop. Prime is getting expensive these days. It's all up-sell and add-on subscriptions. This is getting as expensive as cable TV all over again.

"Everyone is entitled to my own opinion."

No kidding, it is just getting worse. I'm up to episode 8. I've noticed they are starting to throw in these pointless little musical snippets that are supposed to make us feel something. OK, I didn't explain it very well, but these little time wasters. And now, they are getting into the moral ambiguity. Did we take the Abi's land? Oh, I guess maybe we are the invaders. Like in the natural world of tooth and claw, we are supposed to pause and think, well, maybe humanity should die to make way for them.

I'm going to finish the season, but good god, this is just going nowhere.

Season 1 started interesting, was very good up till the end then was crap. This carried over into the start of season 2. However season 2 was very good by the end, rounded off more about wayward pines birth, the good intentions and bad consequences.

Now all the nut jobs are dead we'll see how well they cope in a few hundred years again, if th abi's are dead or have just evolved back into next level humans

I actually liked season 2 more, but that's cause I was a huge fan of the books and Fox was stupid and rushed all three books into season one :-/ so it was nice getting a fresh take from season two I guess

I still thought it was good but I don't think anything will beat Season 1. The eeriness and mystery is what drew me to the show in the first place. I think they should have at least dragged out the big reveal till the last episode of Season 1.

The only club I get down at is club penguin.

What hurts most is the potential wasted, especially when it comes to scifi allegories, which they constantly hint towards but never dare to explore. The whole "survival of the fittest" could have been brought up as a dilemma rather than the idiotic idea of a maniac.
It is sad when shows just jump from event to event, instead of trying to develop a plausible chain of causality making each step unavoidable, the way well written shows manage to do.

Yeah, too bad really. This happens to a lot of shows. You know, it costs a lot of money to develop a show like this with huge set, a large cast, cgi, and action. It's pretty cheap to have a couple actors sitting and speaking dialog to each other in a one room set. So, if you can get enough people excited about characters in the first season by using money shots to draw them in - you can go relatively cheap on the next seasons, and even episodes within a season. (Notice how some seasons only have about half the episodes following the main plot, with off the wall dialog driven subplots used as filler?)

What happens when you have a strong season one ending with main characters "going away" and being replaced starting in season two? Well, if the money hasn't been spent at the same level as the prior season and none of the audience has a relationship with the new characters - the show dies.

It's all driven by income. I could see a bad season two of this show, because they have to balance the viewership with the income brought in by ad sponsors. As time goes on I think more good shows will continue from direct income by the public, cutting the sponsors out of the process. Have 100k people watch a season at $20 a pop, compared to having to make a show that 3 Million watch where maybe 50k will buy something from the commercials shown. Then more shows will be like 20 hour movies and less like cheap soap operas where every corner is cut.

Change things with your cash. Why can't every episode of a season have the same quality as Ep, 1 and the season finale? Don't buy shows that don't - and tell them why.