Summary
The second season is clearly inferior to the first, since it is more serious, downcast and linear, but it also captures us again by the charisma and fortitude of its protagonist (by Luna Wedler), his conspiracy climate that constantly calls into question the loyalties and behaviors of the characters, some successful suspense scenes, their renewed class notes and what again implies that it takes place in a country with the historical background of Germany.
Review
Contains some information about season 1
The first chapter begins with Mia waking up in a class at the University of Freiburg in a state of confusion: she suffers from an amnesia that prevents her from remembering what happened in the last three months. Her account will describe her attempts to discover the cause of her condition, what is her connection with the event that she had closed the previous season and to reconstruct those three months, while she suffers from some symptoms and signs in principle inexplicable.
The resource of amnesia is always interesting, where those who suffer from it must reconnect with her inner circle and reconstruct her immediate past and assimilate the affective changes that occurred in that period.
Recall that the previous season had ended with Mia betrayed by the journalist Winter and kidnapped in a van with Dr. Lorenz. The young woman does not remember this episode clearly either.
Throughout her investigation and adapting to a changed affective environment, Mia experiences some physical disorders and glimpses of her recent past, the frequency of which makes the use of staging them somewhat repetitive. The situation of Dr. Lorenz, her former nemesis, is also very different.
The comparison with season 1, which was clearly better, is inevitable. Season 2 is more linear, even with all the characters of the previous one it is less choral (his roomates friends are at first almost reduced to a comic relief), it is more serious and does not introduce great conceptual novelties with respect to the first. Mia remains the valued successful experimental subject of the eugenic project Homo Deus, with a highly enhanced immune system. But even the bioethical aspects raised in the previous season lose strength at first, although they reappear at the hands of a powerful character who is revealed as her enemy. Again, the series missed the opportunity to better develop Lorenz's character and her new circumstances.
In any case, the series captures us by the charisma and integrity of its protagonist (by Luna Wedler), its conspiracy climate that constantly calls into question the loyalties and behaviors of the characters, some successful suspense scenes, their renewed notes class and what it implies that it takes place in a country with the historical background of Germany.
