Review of Hyouka

Critical: A slice-of-life focusing on the everyday life of four club members, with the twist of solving mysteries within their school and beyond. Though the first season engages with the interpersonal struggles associated with these mysteries—and presents them in visually playful ways—its unique, though slow and subtle, approach to scenarios begins to fatigue in its second season. If you happen to enjoy the first season for its main cast, then the second season should be worth your time; if you enjoy the first season for its handling of interpersonal mysteries, the second season stretches those dramatic highs too far in between. Personal: (spoiler warning from this pointforward — implications of the show's conclusion)
And yet, by the end of it, I still can't get the ending of the show out of my mind. It's honestly nothing remarkable, and maybe some say that it opens up for a possible return of the series, but it really captures a lot about what this show is about: a period of personal growth, created by meeting the right people at the right time, doing silly things here and there until it's time to say goodbye and move on your own path.