TOTDY is a pretentious, self-indulgent, narcissistic,navel-gazing, misogynistic, slow-moving mess that does look great but offers nothing in the way of plot, character development, nuance, real tension or, indeed, meaning. It's what happens when a studio (Amazon Prime) just hands out money to a self-professed auteur without any restrictions. So far, so bad.
Episode 2 shifts the focus from Miles Teller's stone-faced Martin to Augusto Aguilera's equally stone-faced Jésus. The pacing becomes even more ponderous (if that's conceivable) and slow, with even more of those pointless panning shots that don't reveal anything at all. On the upside, character actors Emiliano Díez (as the cartel patriarch) and Sal Lopez (as the corrupt Captain Cortez) refuse to act robotically and deliver nuanced performances, stealing every scene they're in. Apart from that, it's the same muted colours throughout, the same lobotomized pacing, the same meaningless interaction between the characters, the same narcicistic navel-gazing by Refn. In fact, it's even slower than the first episode.