The End of the F***ing World season 2 review, Culture Whisper
The weird and violent teen drama The End of the F***ing World, from Humans writer Charlie Covell, was well-liked by critics when it aired on Channel 4 in 2017, but didn't receive much attention from audiences... not at first, anyway.
This changed once the claws of Netflix half-snatched it away. They distributed the series to a global audience all at once, and made an international cult favourite out of it. Because of that elevated reputation, this initially limited series extended to a second season like Big Little Lies and The Sinner before it.
But both those series share a common, undesirable trait with The End of the F***ing World: the money-motivated second season is simply not as good as the first. Regrettably, Covell can’t quite reach the joy, abandon, or violence that made the show so popular, but re-engages once familiar characters come back to the foreground.
