As good as the first one, more plot ... and I am only through Disc 1. Can't wait for #2! At first as lost in the beginning as the first. Which I loved. Has similar elements to the first series, but clearly different and faster now some characters are established. But its the 'greater' crowd out there that is beginning to enter the story. I do not want to give away anything. But you realize it resumes a bit of time after the first series, but you are not cheated as that gets revealed in its own time what happened and why...part of the fun.