Review of Vinland Saga Season 2

I will try to make a more in depth review later, when I have more time, so for the time being here are my spoiler free thoughts. The second season tries to take the show in a completely new direction. The fast paced action of season 1 is nowhere to be seen around here, but in its place we get a much slower story about Thorfin struggling with his past and learning to live a peaceful life. As you can imagine, there is some awkwardness to the transition and there are some problems here and there, but its nothing dealbreaking. If the show stayed like thatit would be an easy recommend from me. Sadly, the second half of the show is not like that. The trouble starts with episode 13, when a jojo character spawns in the woods and uses his stand "Let the bodies hit the floor" to give the entire main cast brain damage, after which they all take a massive shit on everything the first half tried to achieve. I hoped that the last arc could rescue the show, but instead we got one of the stupidest endings I have ever had the displeasure of seeing.