I'm not sure I've ever known quite such a profound turnaround in my opinion of a show from one season to the next as my declining admiration for "Happy" caused by this second season. Season one was a bold and confident show, that after a shaky start was very entertaining. Season two is a mess of jumbled plots and ideas, most of which don't pay off and was a real chore to get through.
Though his daughter is saved, the effects of the events of the first season are still being felt by Nick (Christopher Meloni) and his family. His ex-wife Amanda (Median Senghore) is unable to quite remember what happened to her in that night at Sonny Shine's (Christopher Fitzgerald) fetish party and his ex-Partner is still intent on bringing Shine to justice.
Though it does rally a bit for the last couple of episodes of this season, for the most part I genuinely thought it was awful. There's a fine line between irreverent and stupid and unfortunately the wavered way beyond the threshold for most of it, leading you down plot cul-de-sacs, seemingly just to give characters something to do so they were still around for the end of it. Personally, I'd have left at least one of the three villainous characters out of this season, and saved them for a potential third run. I might even have gone for a full split away from all of the rest of the characters and have Nick and Happy work a new case together.
I still enjoyed the manic violence, and the tone of the series and I still felt like Chris Meloni was having a good time. I wanted to spend time with the character of Nick, which also made the tangents with Happy and Amanda all the more annoying.
Cut down to a couple of hours, there's probably a decent film that could be made from this season, but it too bloated with rubbish subplots to make it worthwhile.