Welcome to the full-spoiler discussion page for Season 2 of Netflix's Bloodline. This is for those who've watched all ten episodes of the second season and want to read my thoughts about plot specifics or comment down below about the finale or any other spoiler-ific aspect of the show.
Not that the Season 2 finale didn't land well, but one of the big hindrances to Season 2 was us knowing ahead of time that someone in John's way was going to die. We didn't know who'd bite the dust (though Marco and Eric were at the top of the list) and we didn't know who'd be doing the killing, but we knew it was coming. And that it would round out the season.
Wayne's death, at the end of Episode 4 was a sort of neat, bow-on-top happenstance. John was cornered and was about to bear the brunt of all the consequences and then the universe saved him. But we knew something else had to give because his decision to run for sheriff actively kept Danny's case open (at first for political reasons and then for actual reasons). And so the season remained about the Rayburn's big lie. Which meant that another huge line had to be crossed. Because for every bit of progress the siblings would make to sell their story, something else would simultaneously work to tear it down.
So the twist here was that John didn't do the killing. He opted not to shoot Eric. He couldn't go to that dark place again and wound up back as his Episode 4 self. Talking to a vision of Danny, ready for whatever the law would bring down on him once all the dominos fell. No, the actual death blow was delivered by Kevin. Who - what else? - panicked and brained Marco with a dolphin statue. I wasn't a huge fan of this really since I'd become invested in Kevin's recent turnaround. He'd started the season off as a giant mess and had since made some great progress. Now, as we head into Season 3 (I assume there will be one?), I'm not looking forward to seeing whatever new type of walking storm Kevin will become in the wake of this murder. Or everyone, perhaps, racing to hide another body.
Another element this season that frustrated me was the sort of "forbidden love" dance Nolan was doing with young Jane which made her lash out against her own family in typical angsty teenage ways. The Rayburns were beset on all sides this year so watching them also have to suffer the scorn from one of their own, who was half-informed, took some steam out of the story.
Fortunately, both Nolan and Evangeline became more sympathetic characters toward the end as Nolan's flashbacks with Danny got dosed out and Sally began to accept him more into her life. By the end, all three of them looked to move forward and past the all the shame and regrets. Perhaps Sally was just relieved to find two people who didn't now consider it a curse to be a Rayburn. Because both Nolan and John Leguizamo's Ozzy both mentioned, separately over the coarse of the season, that the Rayburn's had it good. How no one growing up there should have complaints about anything. Granted, family dysfunction comes in many forms, but it probably took decades to pass before the Rayburn Inn could be a nice, warm place to live for family. It took Sally surviving Robert and coming to terms with all her past mistakes.
In closing here, I enjoyed the Roy Gilbert character. Beau Bridges' slippery snake of local wealth who we'd discover, by the end, had taken over for Wayne Lowery with regards to the local smuggling. Or, was Wayne's boss to begin with. I like how he entered Meg and John's life as an understanding benefactor and yet always gave off a bit of contempt when it came to their father. You knew there were past issues between the two of them. So the way he stealthily infiltrated the Rayburns' life made for a nice build.
Matt Fowler is a writer for IGN and a member of the Television Critics Association (TCA). Follow him on Twitter at @TheMattFowler and Facebook at http://ift.tt/1kiBJkp.
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