I liked season one quite a bit. It was full of surprises and turns... had odd character quirks and was compelling.
Season two.. not so much... it's more drudgery where the story is concerned. The characters are still the same.. but.. there's not a great deal of humor in season two.. there's some.. but it's just, well, fleeting. For the most part it's leaned more towards drama for season two. It's still an okay watch, but not to the same degree as the first season was.
Season one was all about women in the 70s and Joyce pushing against the patriarchy to get her voice heard... eventually settling for the low-level publisher that was the only one who would gamble on her. This made for an engaging story. Season one pushed Joyce's moral boundaries to shoe how dedicated she was to getting a woman's voice heard.
Season two.. well. Season two is clearly pushing a different (more current) social agenda that has little to do with Joyce or the magazine. They've thrown out the driving factor which worked so well in season one in favor of a new, completely different, agenda for season two. Season two has NOTHING to do with feminism or pushing against the patriarchy.
One would think that Joyce, once she got published and it was relatively successful, completely gave up on pushing feminism in favor of this new (more current) social agenda. This makes it seem as though Joyce wasn't really interested in getting women heard at all.. she just wanted to make money and be successful and feminism was merely a vehicle to that capitalistic goal. That's NOT what season one presented.
In addition.. for season two.. Each episode seems to be oddly, overly orange in color - someone tweaked the color balance to make it more orange. They also seems to have applied some sort of soft blur to much of the episodes. This makes them all come across as slightly out of focus and REALLY orange. I thought I needed to get my eyes checked a couple times.. but when comparing side by side with other shows, its glaringly obvious they've intentionally altered the visuals on a global level for this series. I just don't understand these decisions for the visual aspect of season two - it does more harm than any of the scripts or acting does.
Season two.. not so much... it's more drudgery where the story is concerned. The characters are still the same.. but.. there's not a great deal of humor in season two.. there's some.. but it's just, well, fleeting. For the most part it's leaned more towards drama for season two. It's still an okay watch, but not to the same degree as the first season was.
Season one was all about women in the 70s and Joyce pushing against the patriarchy to get her voice heard... eventually settling for the low-level publisher that was the only one who would gamble on her. This made for an engaging story. Season one pushed Joyce's moral boundaries to shoe how dedicated she was to getting a woman's voice heard.
Season two.. well. Season two is clearly pushing a different (more current) social agenda that has little to do with Joyce or the magazine. They've thrown out the driving factor which worked so well in season one in favor of a new, completely different, agenda for season two. Season two has NOTHING to do with feminism or pushing against the patriarchy.
One would think that Joyce, once she got published and it was relatively successful, completely gave up on pushing feminism in favor of this new (more current) social agenda. This makes it seem as though Joyce wasn't really interested in getting women heard at all.. she just wanted to make money and be successful and feminism was merely a vehicle to that capitalistic goal. That's NOT what season one presented.
In addition.. for season two.. Each episode seems to be oddly, overly orange in color - someone tweaked the color balance to make it more orange. They also seems to have applied some sort of soft blur to much of the episodes. This makes them all come across as slightly out of focus and REALLY orange. I thought I needed to get my eyes checked a couple times.. but when comparing side by side with other shows, its glaringly obvious they've intentionally altered the visuals on a global level for this series. I just don't understand these decisions for the visual aspect of season two - it does more harm than any of the scripts or acting does.