The art work and animation is as scrumptious as the first season. The animation might even be a bit better, as some scenes do a great job of blending 2D and 3D renderings, as to be nearly undetectable. Even minor scenes get fine attention to detail.
Our main cast of characters is back and they get some good development this season. There are a handful of intriguing new characters as well. This season suffers from something I was a bit dissapointed with from Season 1. The secondary characters are so interesting I wanted to learn more of them. Leaving Benton without further explanation, or examination of her backstory, is short of criminal. We get to see some real emotion from her, but what we don't get is any WHY. Heck, she could probably handle a spinoff of her own, but we'll never know. We get the same passivity towards some of the new characters too. They end up being props.
It's not affecting the narrative much though. At first it kind of meanders around, and had me wondering where this season was heading. But once it starts falling into place, things move along swiftly to a quite dramatic conclusion. One thing the writers did better this season was weave in the comedy. There were a couple scenes had me LMAO. The ending was satisfying, with just about everyone getting their just desserts. How sweet it was!
Again, the cast is stupendous, and even the new character are done with skill. This points towards knowledgable direction. A commendable job indeed.
This family may be eccentric but there's no weirdness to them. If I was grading this season, it's a bit better at 94/100 for as high an A- as I could give it. If there had only been a bit more secondary character development, this surely would have been a 10 in my book.
