(trailer review) - Enola Holmes

I do try to keep my ears to the streets in regards to the latest news on film.  And when I say streets, I mean the internet, Internet Provider permitting of course, but I remember when it was announced they were going to do a show/film on Enola Holmes, Sherlock and Mycroft's younger sister.  I think I remember them mentioning Helen Bonham-Carter but for the most part, I remember how I felt when they mentioned this project surrounding Sherlock's younger sister.  I believe my thoughts were, "Ok!?" "Why?" "Really?" something along those lines.  I might have even said "Who cares?" and then proceeded with "Anything to just milk a franchise for change".  You see, I know nothing of Sherlock's younger sister, never heard of her.  I've never read any of those books and the only Sherlock I'm familiar with was the ones I used to watch growing up.  I've only really found out recently about his older brother Mycroft through either the Robert Downey Jr. portrayal in the movies, which I really like (Guy Ritchie, get back on it for the third one) or the Benedict Cumberbatch BBC One TV series.  Upon seeing the trailer (and I'm going to be honest), I actually liked it.

From what is made known in the trailer, Enola (Millie Bobby Brown) wakes up one day and her mother is missing.  As she has a close relationship with her, she sets out on mission to track and find her mother with the help of her older brother's Sherlock (Henry Cavill) and Mycroft (Sam Claflin), but when it seems her brothers are not interested, she goes about it by herself anyway.  

This trailer showed how fun this film may be.  Millie is a wonderful actress, famed for her role as Eleven in the Stranger Things series (which is a really really good series) and Henry aka Superman aka August Walker (from Mission Impossible) aka Geralt or Rivia (from the Witcher series) is an excellent actor growing in popularity and charm in nothing but great roles. I also loved him in The Man from U.N.C.L.E (one again, Guy Ritchie, pull your finger out mate).  Nothing but a superb cast, not to mention Helen and her plethora of great roles.  It looks like fun so it would be interesting to watch, albeit very kiddie friendly, which isn't a bad thing at all.

Directed by Harry Bradbeer and starring Millie Bobby Brown, Sam Claflin, Adeel Akhtar, Fiona Shaw, Frances de la Tour, Louis Partridge, Susie Wokoma, Henry Cavill, Helena Bonham Carter,

(trailer review) - The Batman

While a lot of us are trying to understand as to why there is ANOTHER Batman film, we need to first understand that Hollywood is a business and whatever makes the most money, they will milk it dry and then move onto the next.  With that said, we also need to understand that Warner Bros. who own Detective Comics (DC) in its entirety and all of its characters, will do whatever they can in order to gross the most amount of money in their films.  This also means using what has been successful.

The issue we had with Spider-Man (from Sony) and the multiple Spider-Men movies over the years were due to many things; too much studio control or influence, no plan or structure, lacklustre storylines etc and that isn't to mention the signed contracts and having to produce a movie every so often before the rights revert back to Marvel, like what happened with Daredevil, Punisher, Ghost Rider etc.  With Batman, it is a different type of "struggle".  Although Batman was successful on film in 1989 and then had a major dip a little later, Batman has been most successful in recent years since Christopher Nolan's 'Batman Begins'.  Everyone loves the Batman character and for the most part, he is easy to put together on film.  A lunatic dressed as a Bat goes around beating people up and stopping crime in his city, due to the loss of his parents as a child.  But the problem is, we now have Batman fatigue and we don't know who is playing Batman, which world/universe or whatever.  Do any of us even care anymore?

I do!  But for me, it's more of a, which story are they going to tell and are they going to do it successfully.  Also, is this a standalone movie not connected to anything or will we have other characters from the DC catalogue of heroes and villains.  Also Batman has a huge rogues gallery, so why do we need to see another Joker and the same faces over an over.
What I will say is, WB may have only just caught their stride and they are making movies whether it is a standalone movie or team/universe/interconnected movie and they are forcing the audience to understand that these movies will be different and while some will be connected, other may not and if I'm honest, I am totally cool with that.  If you think about it, they can make soo much more money with two Batmen running around, one connected and one not, because people will see Batman and people will be forced to identify which is which and that is not a bad thing.  Those who care will take note, those who don't, wont.  I just want them to introduce more characters now.

As for this teaser trailer though, it's not garbage at all.  From Matt Reeves, the guy that brought us the last two recent Planet of the Apes movies, this trailer looks great.  Dark, gritty, with a noir feel to it.  We see Jim Gordon, Catwoman and possibly a Robin.  Batman is using a grappling hook and beating up thugs like he should.  We even see the Batmobile.  This is Batman starting out which is different to Batman Begins and this looks good!  Imagine, they are currently still filming and this teaser trailer is great.

Directed by Matt Reeves an starring Robert Pattinson, Zoë Kravitz, Paul Dano, Jeffrey Wright, John Turturro, Peter Sarsgaard, Barry Keoghan, Jayme Lawson, Andy Serkis, Colin Farrell

(trailer review) - Zack Snyder's Justice League

First of all, imagine being a director and the studio feel you haven't done such a great job (not like the studio knew what they were doing or if any of them are comic book fanatics anyway), they use your recently passed young daughter to remove you from the film they wanted you to make and get someone else to finish the job, adding the same kind of flair that director helped to make another similar movie popular and a lot of money for the studio's rival or main competition.  I'd feel a type of way, I'm not going to lie.

Warner Bros. have been trying to catch up with Marvel (well Disney, now) since the very first Iron Man movie in 2008.  With nobody at the top detailing a plan and sticking to it, they were simply trying this character, then that character, rather than starting with a character and building a story and an over-arching plot/plan etc like what Marvel did with Thanos and the Infinity Gauntlet Saga spanning 22 or so movies.  Apparently, it was to start with Batman Begins, they asked Christopher Nolan and he wasn't on it and wanted to make his own thing.  Then they attempted again with Green Lantern, but that was a dud.  DC have been chasing behind Marvel all this time and unless someone can tell me otherwise, is the reason as to why Zack has gone back to this project to finish it because he was essentially robbed of his movie.

This trailer looks phenomenal.  I know Zack is a lot of style and flair, but damn!  And considering, he will be putting a little bit more money into it (I think I heard), with no reshoots AND this movie will be something like 4 hours long, I can only assume this movie will fully flesh out how the movie and story was meant to play out without troubled Josh Whedon getting involved.  I don't really talk about the behaviours of actors and directors etc, but from when I heard Josh was being a twit to the actor who plays Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and also removed a lot of his scenes, made me feel a type of way towards him and now I'm looking at Josh sideways.  I hope this movie turns out to be very good and blows Josh's one out of the water.

Directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, Jason Momoa, Ray Fisher, Jeremy Irons, Diane Lane, Connie Nielsen, J. K. Simmons, Ciarán Hinds

(trailer review) - Wonder Woman 1984

(Official Main Trailer)

(Official Trailer)

What has been really weird of lately is that, I've not reviewed a few trailers and many would go by and somehow I would, well, not review it for some reason.  I'm going to try and get on top of that in a way that benefits us both, myself the reviewer and you, the reader.  In some ways, I'm thankful because I'm not reviewing 26 trailers for one film or TV series, like The Boys for a good example, but then at the same time, I'm not reviewing the subtle differences with these trailers.  The Official Trailer was 8th December 2019, pre-covid....lol!

Anyway, this trailer is a huge step up from an already great looking trailer.  It shows more of what is going on and what is meant to be happening in regards to plot.  It seems as though Maxwell Lord is able to grant people wishes in which Diana Prince wishes for Steve Trevor and Barbara, wishes to be more powerful than Wonder Woman, an Apex Predator and becomes a Cheetah.  She doesn't look like Cats the movie, so that's a good thing and the CGI/Special effects on her may need a little tweaking, but this film looks really good.  It looks like it's about greed and balance.  Imagine, the film is meant to be out already, but hopefully it is out soon.  I'm still loving that majestical flipping truck scene and Wonder Woman is gracefully floating.


Directed by Patty Jenkins and starring Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Kristen Wiig, Pedro Pascal, Connie Nielsen, Robin Wright

(trailer review) - The New Mutants

It's funny, I haven't done a single trailer review for this Movie so I guess it is only fitting to put THIS trailer up out of the thousands that came before because at least this one will give you more of a taster of what we should expect.  I haven't done a single review until now because, 1). I only started doing trailer reviews late last year.  2). This film is essentially two years old and I'm sure it was announced 6 years ago.  3). How do we even know it's going to come out on the 28th August 2020?  This movie has been through it and they are really starting to hype it up so I take it, they are more concrete than ever right now?  Te Disney acquisition of Fox and all their movie properties has put a lot of their projects in a weird place and this movie was definitely one of them.  At one point, it seemed likely that they would drop the movie on Disney Plus, but at this rate, it IS a matter of, people want to see what kind of sh*tshow this movie is, IF it is even that, because of all the delays etc.  I mean it has promise to be actually decent but with all the delays, people are either disinterested becaue of the delays or they simply just don't care for it.  What I will say is, there is a bunch of curious people who will go to see this to see if, a). It Stinks. b). If it was any good in the first place and if it really should have been released on Disney Plus or scrapped and c). IF the movie will somehow connect to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  I can bet money that there WILL be people waiting after the credits have started rolling looking for a connectivity nugget.
TWO years ago! Even in some of their recent trailer clips, they are mocking themselves at this point, 13th April 2018, 22nd February 2019, 2nd August 2019, 3rd April 2020, but 28th August 2020 seems to be the date...well we shall see.

For the most part, I do believe Kevin Feige has a few drafts of the script for Doctor Strange II and he will be watching closely for the feedback of this movie and judge whether how dark and scary he will take the sequel because it seems as though Scott Derrickson came off the project because perhaps, he was taking it too dark!?!  This trailer and what is happening in the movie from the clips I've seen look really good.  Demon Bear is trying to stalk and/or kill one of the characters so the characters must band together to defeat him, simplistic but decent.  A little like Stranger Things but with Mutants.  We shall see IF it actually comes out and how good it really is.

Directed by Josh Boone and starring Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, Alice Braga, Blu Hunt, Henry Zaga,

(trailer review) - Death on the Nile

I remember seeing the trailer for 'Death on the Orient Express' and for the most part, I was somewhat interested in it.  It wasn't a moving mountains to go and see it kind of movie for me but I would have liked to have seen it in the cinema but I just didn't get around to seeing it.  For this trailer, I do feel the same as the first movie but seeing Letitia Wright aka Shuri (Black Panther) and Gal Gadot (Wonder Woman) in a movie together with Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders is an absolute madness to me.

Kenneth must know the two latter ladies personally because French and Saunders (It used to be a British TV show back in the day) are definitely two comedic ladies he has certainly pulled from obscurity because I haven't seen them in ANYTHING recently.  Russell Brand was totally unrecognisable and to have Rose Leslie aka 'You Know Nothing Jon Snow' also featured, the talent alone has more than peaked my interest, it's just that, in this climate now, when will we be seeing it?

I loved Knives Out as it was funny and very entertaining and having not seen Murder on the Orient Express, but I was interested, I will definitely watch that first to help me make up my mind about watching this one.  I did hear good reviews but, I'll ultimately be the judge of that.  I mean, Kenneth did direct Artimis Fowl...

Directed by Kenneth Branagh and starring Tom Bateman, Annette Bening, Russell Brand, Ali Fazal, Dawn French, Gal Gadot, Armie Hammer, Rose Leslie, Emma Mackey, Sophie Okonedo, Jennifer Saunders, Letitia Wright

(film review) [STREAMING] - Project Power

As previously stated in my trailer review, "Just when I thought we may have had enough of superhero shows and such, this trailer reared it's head like "Hello there!" (only said in an Obi Wan voice)" and for the most part, that is EXACTLY what this film has done taking many people and fans alike aback, scratching their head wondering many things.  Super powers? Comic book? Jamie Foxx? Netflix?  But from what I know and working my way backwards, Netflix has a host of it's own shows which are pretty good, including films which includes some kind of super powers or enhanced individuals.  It is definitely a surprise seeing Jamie Foxx again since The Amazing Spider-Man 2 and for the most part, who knew he was filming anything other than Soul.  Nope, doesn't appear to be connected to any graphic novel, cartoon strip or comic book.  And well, why not have a movie about super powers? It's this era's hot commodity in which if done well, isn't something you can be bored with, you know?  Think 2012's Chronicle.  Think 2013's Prisoners.  Think...I should just let you know how it all went.

So, Project Power is about a young drug dealer named Robyn (Dominique Fishback) who gets caught up in Art Reilly's (Jamie Foxx) personal vendetta trying to find his missing daughter and a city cop Frank Shaver (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who is trying to rid his city of a drug called Power, a drug which will "give" the user an unpredicted power limited to 5 minutes. 
Whilst Robyn has her own personal reasons as to why she is pushing these drugs, Art has his own reasons as to why he is after these drugs and at the same time, Frank, who is also using these drugs, is trying to stop the drugs from getting around the city leading to a cat and mouse chase for Power.  However, when they all eventually butt heads, each person is caught in some kind of power struggle.  I can't really go into much more detail due to spoilers, but that is about it.

The film unfortunately is quite generic, but at the same time is very enjoyable to watch.  It is funny, it is action-packed, it is smart, it is gory (to an extent), the fight scenes, dialogue and music are all great.  The pacing is good and the characters are also great.  Even the tone, although a little all over the place, lends itself to the movie as it is definitely a different type of "superhero" movie.  You could say quirky in places, but the execution, cinematography and some of the scenes are stylish and inviting whilst being fast-paced, energetic and in some places, erratic.  Imagine if this drug was on the streets where you come from and how things would go down, this film feels very much like that and feels very grounded from the dialogue and the things the characters say and the way they behave, but although being generic, I do feel they could have pushed the boat out a little and digged deeper into the world of the deep seedy underground and the different gangs all fighting for Power.  Although Art's story is told in small little flashbacks, not enough is done for Robyn as her background is surface level as well as Franks.  I loved Art as a character and Award winning Jamie Foxx kills it; very relentless and I liked what they did with Robyn and her abilities.  Dominique Fishback's portray was great but she could have been given more.  Joseph has been in excellent movies like The Dark Knight Rises and Inception, he is a great actor.  He did well in this movie but a little underused.  The villain is also generic with no real purpose really, other than the usual, but that does not take away from the movie.  In some cases, it is style over substance but with great acting from the trio, the movie is forgiven for its small short-comings and when it was finished, i didn't essentially feel like it was missing anything until i gave it some thought.

There are a few quotes in this movie that stand out as funny and a few scenes which were excellent, however, I just feel, although great, they could have done just that little bit more by maybe extending the film by 20 minutes of footage with Frank and Robyn's characters maybe.  One of my favourite scenes was near the end when Art is talking about a creature called the "Pistol Scrimp" which then leads into a funny moment in the following scene, but I can only imagine Google has had a number of people googling.  Another one of my favourite scenes involved a woman in a container and we have a view of what's going on outside of the container from inside the container, very stylish and I liked it.  Oh yeah, I hate the name Power for a drug.  Give it some letters and numbers or something, blimey!

I wonder if all the viewings in the next week or so could generate enough money to double the 85 million used to make the film to possible get Netflix to move onto a sequel.  It would be interesting if they do a sequel in another town with another protagonist but maybe put a different spin on it.

(trailer review) - The Devil All The Time

So, I remember hearing about this movie a little while back and then I completely forgot about it, now that I have seen the trailer, this movie looks great!  The cast alone is great from Robert Pattinson to young Luke Skywalker aka Sebastian Stan, but what really gripped me to the trailer, was the nefarious tone and vibe to it all.  EVERYONE seems a bit sketchy and untrustworthy.  Jason Clarke alone is a little creepy in this and Tom Holland looks as though he will be playing a much darker role than what he has been recently or wildly known for as Peter Parker, Spider-Man.  Oh and Pennywise himself Bill Skarsgård...nothing much more needs to be said, I'm sure.

I can't gauge exactly what is going on in this trailer other than some, what looks like murder and ritualistic, insane, barbaric, possibly sexual, killing type craziness.  Maybe another trailer will flush out the goings on a little better!

Directed by Antonio Campos and starring Tom Holland, Bill Skarsgård, Riley Keough, Jason Clarke, Sebastian Stan, Haley Bennett, Eliza Scanlen, Mia Wasikowska, Robert Pattinson

(trailer review) - Judas and the Black Messiah

I swear this has to be one of the most humble guys I've seen in acting who is just AMAZING at his craft.  Not to say that other actors are not amazing and/or humble, but I really do feel that Daniel brings a different kind of energy to his craftsmanship.
He was in Kick Ass 2, he was in a Black Mirror Episode, starred in Get Out WITH Lakeith Stanfield, in Black Panther DIRECTED by Ryan Coogler (who also produces this movie) and also in Queen and Slim, a film that made me cry and angry and his performance was also great in that.  he has been in other movies i haven't mentioned, but this trailer alone looks Award winning for this award nominated actor.

There's nothing much I can say in regards to this trailer as the trailer speaks volumes loud and clear, unless there will be some twists involved.  Fred Hampton is set up by close ally and/or friend due to his co-operation with the police who are trying to take Fred down.  I don't know the real life story along with countless others, so I'm totally unaware of how the story is meant to have gone but I'm sure it would be great to learn this story directed by Shaka King.  I've watched this trailer like 3-4 times now and it just get's more powerful with every watch.  I think, the movie being released now would be very poignant to what is happening in society right now and also brings me back to Umbrella Academy Season 2. 1963 and 1969 are only 6 years apart.

Directed by Shaka King and starring Daniel Kaluuya, Lakeith Stanfield, Jesse Plemons, Dominique Fishback, Ashton Sanders, Martin Sheen, Algee Smith, Lil Rel Howery, Jermaine Fowler, Darrell Britt-Gibson,

(trailer review) - The Boys: Season 2

(Official Trailer)

(official teaser trailer)

(second trailer/first look clip)

(first trailer)

How many trailers, guys??? HOW MANY!?!  At this point it's literally a Copy + Paste effort!
This trailer though, is definitely the business and if you wasn't involved already, there is a strong possibility that you are now, unless you simply don't care for it.

You see, the superhero/comic book genre is somewhat over saturated and if we are going to keep with the genre, we DO need to have a fresh spin on it and last years, The Boys from Amazon, was JUST THAT!  Along with Umbrella Academy from Netflix, Amazon hit this one clean out of the park and although grittier and and more violent than Umbrella Academy, this show's storyline was also great to get into.

This trailer gives you SOOOO much more with what is going on in this season and without trying to repeat myself, Homelander and Stormfront don't seem to be seeing eye-to-eye, but whilst Homelander is after Billy Butcher and The Boys and trying to raise his son (remember from previous clips/trailers), Huey is still with Starlight and it seems as though The Seven is fractured.  A-Train running away from Huey rather than just killing him...interesting and Billy has a plan to get back his wife.  Early September is too long away...lol.  Umbrella Academy season 2 was brilliant. I'm just hoping this one is too or at least as good as the first season.

Directed by Eric Kripke and starring Karl Urban, Jack Quaid, Antony Starr, Erin Moriarty, Dominique McElligott, Jessie T. Usher, Laz Alonso,  Chace Crawford, Tomer Kapon, Karen Fukuhara, Nathan Mitchell, Elisabeth Shu

(series review) [STREAMING] - Umbrella Academy: Season 2

We now live in a world where binging is a past time we indulge in shows that we love and we tend to consume it within just a few days.  I say "we now live in a world" but if I'm honest, we have been here a while now and binging is becoming the norm, especially during this Pandemic and for the most part, information is everywhere and nobody really want to have shows they are interested, spoiled for them.

What I will say though, although binging will take hours from you instantly, it does help you to catch up on shows you've never seen before or for a nice little recap.  I gave myself a recap on this show for the first season as I couldn't remember all the details and wanted to be ready for season 2.  I will go into season 1 ever so briefly, with mild spoilers before I go into my non-spoiler review. for season 2.

So, if you haven't seen the first season of Umbrella Academy, prepared to be spoiled just a little.

Imagine X-Men, a school for gifted children to hone their powers and do good in the world with said powers, The Umbrella Academy is a little like that.  Sir Reginald Hargreeves The Monocle, an extremely cold-hearted eccentric billionaire industrialist and world-renowned scientist adopted 7 children out of 43, who were all born on the same day at the same time across the world.  These 7 children were to have special abilities and he named them 1 through 7.  Number 1 The Spaceboy aka Luther (Tom Hopper) is the leader of the bunch and is super strong.  Number 2 The Kraken aka Diego (David Castañeda) can throw objects, usually knives with proficiency (somewhat bending their direction mid-air).  Number 3 The Rumour aka Allison (Emmy Raver-Lampman) can control minds once she utters the words "I heard a rumour...".  Number 4 The Seance aka Klaus (Robert Sheehan) can communicate with the dead.  Number 5 The Boy aka Five (Aidan Gallagher) can travel through space and time.  Number 6 The Horror aka Ben (Justin H. Min) can summon tentacle horrors from his body and Number 7 The White Violin aka Vanya (Ellen Page) has no powers.  

Sir Hargreeves trained the children vigorously whilst also scolding, berating and subjecting them to experiments.  He called the team 'The Umbrella Academy' and would send them out into the field to stop crime.  When arguing with Sir Hargreeves about the possibility of time travel, Five disobeys Sir Hargreeves and does it anyway finding himself stuck in a Post-Apocalyptic world where he lived for several decades.  On a mission, Ben dies and shortly after his death, the team disbands leaving Luther as the only person who stayed carrying out missions for Sir Hargreeves.  One day Luther is injured on a mission and after experimenting on him, Sir Hargreeves sends him on an important mission to the moon where he lives for 4 years.  Sir Hargreeves dies and having known about the end of the world, Five finds his way back to the past several days before the apocalypse and tries to band the team back together to stop the end of the world.

Having recently watched the first season, I instantly remembered why I found the show brilliant.  Not only did it have a comic book essence to it visually, some of the characters had layers but it was more of the family dynamics which captured me.  A dysfunctional family trying to band together, putting aside their grievances with one another, trying to solve the mystery of who it is who will cause the end of the world.  Although done on a non-movie budget, the special effects were quite top-notch for a Netflix show and the music was also very good.  The action and choreography was great and Umbrella Academy travels at a medium to slow pace that gradually brings you closer and closer to the mystery with a few twists.  On my second watch I found David Castañeda's character of Diego to be of a tragic story when on my first watch it was more Vanya.  Aiden Gallagher's Five as well as Robert Sheehan's Klaus are the screen stealers.  Another interesting element to the show is the Commission's two operatives, Hazel (Cameron Britton) and Cha-Cha (Mary J. Blige) who are a disruptive force running through the series as they both are on a mission sent by The Commission.

By the end of the show, in trying to stop the Apocalypse, the group find themselves travelling with Five through time, but we don't know where.

Highlights from This season is when the family is dancing in different locations of the mansion which I found fun and cool.  Another crazy scene was Luther dancing in the club.  The funniest moment for me was, when Hazel and Cha-Cha go to the lab. Comedy Gold.

The second season picks up immediately after the events of the first season and Five's time travel goes awry taking them back to the 60's.  When Five arrives, he finds his family fighting against the soviets in World War 3 moments before the planet is nuked.  Hazel arrives with just enough time to advise Five that he will need to get the family together as him and his family are the only ones who can stop the end of the world and another Apocalypse.

One again, the people behind The Umbrella Academy have not only done a great job the second time around, they have managed to get the audience to empathise and care for pretty much every single character in the show to some degree.  Some characters get a bit more to do than others and Klaus and Five are still the standouts, but they give Diego and Allison a bit more meat.  Both characters end up having love/relationship angles to the story that do not feel forced.  No scenes felt wasted as every scene led to something whether you saw it play out shortly afterwards or will have a role to play in the future.  A highlight for me was a scene involving 5 and the board members.  It felt like a scene from a movie I cannot say as it would give away the movie and what potentially happens in the show.  With that said, a Season 3 is very welcomed and I actually hope they are quarantining now in order to make this happen so they can start shooting in a few weeks from now...WE NEED SEASON 3.

They also gave Ben's character a bit more to do and it was great seeing more of him other than just seeing him to the side like a 3rd wheel to Klaus.  Ben had his moments and I loved them.  There were many great quotes and one-liners in this season, obviously by the two characters that stand out, Five and Klaus and the cinematography, especially the beginning/intro was straight out of a X-Men movie.  The music is on point and there really isn't anything wrong with this season at all.  There were some real laugh out loud moments and one that particularly stood out for me was with Luther in the Alleyway shouting out for Allison.  I couldn't stop laughing.  I feel the intro give you insight to what you will be getting through the 10 episodes.

But this season isn't all fun and jokes as it does touch on some serious topics with Vanya, Klaus and moments with Allison's character and her storyline.  I won't lie, but a scene brought tears to my eyes and I even tweeted about it, with Allison's story.  It was masterfully handled and it was not great to see, but great to see in a show like this, enabling people all over the world who will watch the show to see these scenes and have an understanding of History as a lot of history was cleverly woven into the story.  I won't go into much to avoid spoilers, but the moment couldn't be more pertinent.  With that said, the new characters were excellent, Raymond Chestnut (Yusuf Gatewood) and Lila (Ritu Arya) and the main villain, in which I will no go into due to spoilers, was also great and loved every moment they were on screen chewing up the scenery.

While the show continues to have secrets and twists throughout, it is fun to discover them as they came at you as you get soo engrossed with these characters to the point, near the end of the show, I was wondering which of the new characters will be brought forward.  The final fight could have been a touch better, but I didn't mind how that wrapped up, but the final scene was great and will be intriguing from a story standpoint going forward.

If you liked the first season, I don't see how you wouldn't like this season as they do expand on what came before, in more better ways than one.