Hap And Leonard Season Two 10/10
This
will have some spoilers. Arcs! Story arcs! I have realized that this
is what every show pretends to have but does not. I am tired of shows
having twenty something episodes to tell one story. Even with
commercials a twenty episode season has over thirteen hours to flesh
a story out and most times do not. Hap And Leonard is not one of
those shows. I just finished watching season two on Netflix and, holy
shit, this show continues to be amazing. James Purefoy and Michael K.
Williams return as the stars and manage to make this season even
better than the first (click here to check out that review). This
season has six episodes and three directors whom none of them worked
during the first season but the show felt the same in the best of
ways. It also had some of the same writers.
This
season starts off with Leonard living in his late uncle Chester's
house next to drug dealing gang members who are generally shitty
neighbors. He is still recovering from injuries in the first season
when his legs go through the floor of the house. He checks underneath
and finds the skeleton of a small boy. He tells Hap who tells him to
tell the police thinking they are doing the right thing. Immediately
they are arrested. There is a history between the police and these
two so nothing is going to be easy for them. Their new lawyer Florida
Grange played by Tiffany Mack shows up and scares them free.
It
turns out that Hap had a thing for her when they were children.
Speaking of kids, this boy named Ivan played by Olaniyan Thurmon ends
up in Leonard's care at the behest of his not quite boyfriend Raoul.
Ivan was found in Leonard's place after overdosing on drugs from the
neighbors next door. Hap and Leonard ask about the boy whose body was
found under the house and starts to think his uncle may have killed
him along with a bunch of other missing kids over the years. The
police are hiding some stuff and are not saying a damned thing.
MeMaw
who lives across the street from Leonard played by Irma P. Hall has a
backstory that connects with this story incredibly and just when I
thought I knew what it was I was super wrong. I don't even wanna kind
of spoil her plot line in this because when I saw how it wrapped up I
gasped. That is something this show made me do a lot which was not
done by violence or jump-scares, but great storytelling. This show is
driven so much by the good acting and a lot of times not even
talking. There is a scene in the final episode that is a series of
looks that made me go “Oooooooh...” It is so hard to write about
this and not spoil things but I am trying my best. You don't have to
have watched the first season of this show but I would suggest you do
because there are small flashbacks that flesh out the past of Hap and
Leonard. A third season has aired and I can not wait until it comes
to Netflix. Check this show out. Now!
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here for previous The Review.
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