...or the curse of the second season!

JUST A RANT after a disappointing beginning!
I am starting this immediately after finishing the first series I simply adored and I can feel the differences in pacing, and in storyline with the introduction of a bunch of annoying characters! Moreover Nanon seems to have forgotten how to button up his shirt and why is Wave wearing his jacket on his shoulders like a soap opera diva , not to mention that Claire's makeup is making me think she's not being played by the same actress(WTF are you thinking Mr. Director !?!) ?And do not start me on PPLs! What mildly irritated me in the first series, it is seriously annoying me here (the first 20 min of the ep. two are just filled with ads!!! At one moment I seriously thought one character was going to discover his potential while eating ramen!) Please tell me they tone it down afterwards because if I have to watch them continuously eating noodles, drinking soft drinks and wash their faces I am going to drop it! ??? Episode 5 and they are still taking forever to eat OK ramen.... And PPLs go on and on and on endlessly!
Basically the theme of this season is DIVIDE & CONQUER implemented by adults manipulating idealistic kids! Nanon's character, Pang, has lost all his nice sides which made him such a lovable dork in the first season! It looks like he lost most of his braincells when he decided to leave his shirt half unbuttonned: he has been behaving like a total clueless idiot! While in the first season, he would think and figure out the most unprobable solutions, here he is such a gullible fool! No wonder, none of his friends do not want to be with him: he keeps trusting the wrong people, something he would never have done a year earlier! So annoying!
On to ep.8 and the backstory of the Director Supot (those anthology like episodes in season 1 were my favourite so I was happy we were finally getting one here!) which was fascinating. They also talked a lot about the virus but why is all that talk making me think of AIDS? Maybe it is an allegory?
So after listening to Supot's story we were made to sympathize with him and believe him to be better than we thought! Wrong! So wrong, actually he is much, much worse than we thought but eventually he looks like a villain from a James Bond or a Marvel movie: ridiculous! (After realizing that young version of Supot is played by Tay Tawan, I can so see him in the older actor! They managed to mimic each other's micro mannerisms to perfection!)
These twists are mindblowing! And they keep coming, relentlessly as the ending approaches! But Pang's stupidity at the same time seems to be boundless! What happened to him? I hoped he'd grow a brain before the ending, but, well guess what?, he doesn't!!! And then they decide to end it all like Buffy did: give the potential to everyone! At least Buffy had a cool sword and an even cooler witch friend!
So my final thoughts: if you liked the first series, watch this one as well but be aware it is definitely not as good and that you risk a disappointment!