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    How To Defend Season 2 Of 'American Vandal' Against Its Naysayers

    Now that enough people have seen the second season of Netflix's comedy/drama/true crime parody, your weekend will be full of people comparing it unfavorably to season one. Here's why they're wrong.
    by Glen Weldon Sep 22, 2018 5 minutes
    The second season of Netflix's <em>American Vandal</em> uses several true-crime techniques, like this moody reenactment, to explore its fake-crime story.

    The second season of Netflix's American Vandal dropped last Friday. The first season proved a slow-build, under-the-radar, word-of-mouth phenomenon; the second arrived to a devoted and vocal fanbase. Season one was something you started hearing about over the course of weeks and months, from disparate friends and family; full, spoilery reviews of season two were posted at 12:01:01 a.m. last Friday.

    They're good-to-glowing, those reviews, mostly. But that's critics. Critics have to make cases, argue on the merits, note the shortcomings — show their work, in other words, citing specific examples.

    But your friends and family don't. They can simply hold opinions, and voice them, loudly, repeatedly, at your neighborhood bar, over the dinner table or at some friend of a friend's interminable game night.

    The critics have had their say already. By the end of last weekend, most outlets who were prepared to weigh in on's second season had done so.

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