Helluva Boss Episode 2 Review and Impressions

So another episode of Helluva Boss decided to come around again, and I had apprehensions, probably because they hadn’t exactly nailed what they had set out to do in the first two episodes. It was the Deus Ex thing again, if you make a sequel to something that was just fine, without improving anything, you get all the annoyances again without the novelty. Fortunately, my qualms were put to rest rather quickly because Helluva Boss episode 2 is actually quite good.I think what held back the first two episodes of Helluva Boss was a lack of focus. The Pilot felt rather spread thin, like it was trying to cover everything it could without the time to do so. Pilots are generally like this, however, since you want to appeal to as broad an audience as possible so that the largest group of people come back for more. The aversion really only started to kick in when the Halloween episode came out, mostly because it was inconsistent, wasn’t terribly funny, and had several tonal issues. I think I said at the time that it felt like they could do a lot better, and this felt like a product that was rushed…
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