Review of Spy x Family Season 2

It’s misleading to call this the second season. At most it’s a part three. Very little changes compared to the first two “parts” (season 1 on Netflix). All the basics are the same, the actors, art, animation and the like are totally unchanged. It’s the same over the top organised chaos as the first season. There is something of note though. Seeing as this “season” is many less episodes than the first I expected a cutback on the filler and more to the point story. This was not even remotely the case. I was very surprised to see that there was actually significantly MORE fillerin this 12 episode season than the 25 episode first season. It was honestly kind of astonishing. In a way I was happy though, all this filler and the inconsistent content before and after the music further reinforced my point that there should have been an OVA series where these stories would go. Unfortunately we know that wasn’t the route they went with.

You might think I’m exaggerated about the filler but I’m not. Very little advanced the story in any way. Even the main arc of the season technically didn’t advance it at all. It was good to get some focus on Yor, and that arc was very enjoyable, but the rest of the season feels pointless. My memory isn’t doing me very well because I had a break during my watchtime but the ratio of filler to actual content might exceed 1:1.

In the end I lost patience with it. It isn’t complete at all as a season and was basically a waste of time. My rating doesn’t really reflect that because on the fundamentals it was identical to the first season and was kind of enjoyable, but the big “Not Recommended” is to be taken literally. Until a third season is out (as of now it’s not on Netflix) don’t bother with this intermediate “season.”