When the season was first starting, there was some talk about how the writers and producers were going to be bringing back more of the fun from the first season, less darkness and all that. Instead I have found this to be maybe the most depressing season of all.
Sure, Jenny’s better, though she still seems a little self-righteous to me sometimes. She’s been almost unbelievably patient and understanding with Max.
Max on the other hand is not really growing on me like the other new characters. I feel like she/he needs someone more to connect her/him to the group than Jenny. Hard to do, with all the rest that was going on, I think.
Helena somehow went from sexual predator who breaks up happy families to a likable and almost naive woman who simply falls deep, deep into love way too easily. Makes me wish that she had never broken up with Tina.
Tina and Bette…ugh. I started disliking Bette last season and this season just made it worse. Too domineering, too aggressive, too self-centered. She kept on about how Tina was breaking up the family and how she had been the breadwinner for so many years and all that…I just wanted Tina to say, "well, talking about breaking up a family, how about when you cheated on me multiple times while I was pregnant with “our” child? Bette just seems like a jerk to me. I have no idea what they have in store for her. Maybe she’ll have a fling with Helena next season or something, I don’t know.
Kit and Angus; for once, they came up with a storyline for Kit that I liked; I was wary at first, thinking that maybe Angus would turn out to be a con man or something; who knows, maybe he still will be. But he seems genuine and a pretty decent guy.
Shane and Carmen; well, we knew eventually there would be some cheating going on, the question was, how would they react to it? They seem to be weathering the storm so far, but how much will they be willing to endure? Still, it has been interesting seeing Shane trying out monogamy. However, I find myself thinking, “what does Shane see in Carmen, other than a hot body?” I mean, I see Shane as someone who is fiercely loyal to her friends, someone who is sympathetic and so forth, she seems likable to me. All I’ve really seen from Carmen so far is a fiery Latina temper and, yes, a hot body. I need more from her, I think, before I get into the character.
Dana/Alice/Lara: Man, o man…I was SO rooting for Dana and Lara and was happy when Alice started seeing Uta (hope that still plays out next season) and then the shit hits the fan with the breast cancer. I REALLY wished that Lara would have toughed it out and stayed with Dana (she was there for her for a long time through the initial stages) but I was really kind of shocked this episode to find out that she really DID end up going to Paris. I thought that she would have been just staying around L.A. in a fit of depression and all that. Oh well. I know that they needed to have closure for the Alice/Dana thing and it really is true that, whether as friends or lovers, Alice and Dana have true love for each other. I’m predicting that when Lara returns and finds out Dana is dead, Alice will tell her that yes, Dana said to say that she loved Lara, even though she knows differently, just to ease Lara’s pain. She’s good like that. Sad to see Dana go, but she went out well, I think. Had some closure, at least with Alice. Poor Lara. I do hope that she comes back next season though. Uta too. This show needs some vampires.