And his dad's Gus Grissom.
I don't think the critics of season 2, myself included, are asking for an easy to follow storyline. But it does need to have enough coherence to
allow you to follow it. This season seemed to just wallow in the fact that these are all miserable people. OK, I get it. At least have something I can latch on to and care about.
I'm watching Breaking Bad now from start to finish. I never saw it when it originally aired. Only on season 4, so no spoilers. But I think of Jesse Pinkman. By all accounts, a loser junkie. He is impulsive and makes very bad choices. But, deep inside he has a heart and you see enough empathy in him that you can care about whether he lives or dies. I just didn't really care for any of these characters enough. Velcoro possibly, but he was ultimately so self destructive and full of rage. Frank did nothing for me. Ani again just seemed like living in misery. All broken people. That alone is fine. Broken people can be interesting in a drama, but it has to go somewhere.
MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
VELCORO: I have too much rage, killed the wrong guy, my kid and ex-wife want nothing to do with me, I'm working a case, boom, I'm dead.
FRANK: My wife and I can't have a kid, I lost all my money on a bad deal, I have too much rage, I'm trying to figure out what happened, I forgot about a certain group I pissed off, stab, I'm dead.
ANI: I had trauma as a kid, I'm messed up regarding relationships permanently, don't like my father or sister or co-workers or bosses, trying to understand this case, killed someone, leaving the country, bye.
WOODRUGH: I had trauma in foreign lands, I'm gay, I hate that I'm gay, I don't understand the case I'm working, something about land deals, I'm being blackmailed because I'm gay, boom, I'm dead too.
And it bugs me that John Carter is basically killed for protecting a secret that no one but he would really care about. Well, his girlfriend would now, but if he had just owned it, he never would have hooked up with her. It just felt odd that in 2015 this character exists. His mom knew, his co-workers knew, his security buddy certainly knew. Whatever.
As much as there was to complain about with season 1, I cared about Rust and Marty. And, There was a case. It was integral to the series and the character arcs revolved around it. It was never totally obscured by it. There too, they pulled on many threads that never developed. A massive cult involving important families, but we end up with a couple swamp creatures in a Deliverance setting. But, just watching Rust carving up his beer cans and talking about his version of the universe... crazy, but compelling.