Review of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2009)

I wrote a review which I'll provide at the bottom. Some loser deleted it because they didn't agree with it. Let's start over entirely. If you're considering watching this second season, you've probably seen the first. If you haven't then you should go see the first, there's little point in starting midway through. If you've seen the first, you probably know if you like the general format of the show. This second season is a direct continuation of the first. If you don't like the first season, you won't like the second. The second season is good with abig caveat: the endless eight. These are nearly-identical episodes that serve as filler. They're repetitive and once you've seen one you can skip straight to the last.

ART+SOUND: The art is typical for its era. Competent, with what I'd consider above-average animation quality. Audio in this series isn't important, and you likely won't be able to tell much of this show's audio from another's without context.

CHARACTER/STORY: with the endless eight exception the story is nice and the characters remain consistent with the first season. No meaningful character development here, but that's not the point.

Now for the spooky scary banned original review text, which really isn't all that different except in brevity:
Endless Eight sucked, and there was no point besides filling space to have the entire arc take up 8 episodes. It's not artistic, it's not deep, it's not complex, it's lazy. The 8-episode arc could have been compressed into one episode.

Look up the viewing order chronologically on wikipedia, then skip the 8 shit episodes. Then you might enjoy the other 6. That's right, more than half the season is one episode on repeat.

Characters remain consistent from season one, so no real surprises in what you watch unless you haven't seen season one, in which case why are you starting with two?