Unorganized thoughts on HSMTMS s2 (ft North High)
Writing my own HSMTMTS rant so I dont take over the post made by @eristhekid .
Disclaimer: This is is an unorganized rant from a random person on the internet. Do not spread hate in the notes.
I know Tim said HSMTMTS was loosely inspired by Glee so I was expecting North High to be some kind of Dalton Academy + Vocal Adrenaline hybrid badass school that swooped in to cause mayhem but we've only seen Lily twice. We haven't even seen Andrew's character and now they're almost halfway done with the season so if they try to shove the whole plot line into 6 episodes it's just going to be forced.
Its painfully obvious most of the characters themselves only care about the relationship drama. Literally we had the love triangle + rini drama last season. It's also obvious the writers want us, the audience, to care more about the Rini drama than anything else. I've never liked main character favoritism and I never will.
I love Quinceanera because it focuses on characters who we don't always get to see. Even Kourtney got more screen time this week!!! It just felt so refreshing to watch something that wasn't 30mins of drama shoved down our throats.
In regards to North High I was expecting them to be bigger. There's no buildup for them outside of the first episode. There is no reason I (as an audience member) should care about North High. Maybe I expected too much from season 2, but it's almost like they've forgotten how to write their own characters. North High was gonna be this fresh and flashy new threat and everyone at East High would have to band together and focus on beating them. At least, that's how it was advertised. But they dont even seem to be focused on their own show much less beating a rival.
It's not even because my favorite character (EJ Caswell) doesn't have development. It's because they refuse to give anyone outside of the rini relationship circle screentime. Now to be clear - I think Rini is a good ship in theory but HSMTMTS is the kind of show where it feeds off relationship drama. I'm just at the point where I'm singing Kumbaiya and Why Can't We Be Friends because I don't really care about the Rini drama at all this season. Wouldn't it have been much more interesting to see Rini drama caused by a North High student rather than themselves? Like, throw in Nini being nice to North High's leading man so Ricky can be jealous or something. It feels like we're watching recycled writing.
NOT EVERYONE NEEDS A RELATIONSHIP TO BE HAPPY. It's like they're trying to shove everyone together with someone and it's just not working.
I like drama and angst if it's done right and this season of HSMTMTS just hasn't been doing it for me. It feels less put together than season one. Ever since episode one the entirety of season two has just felt off. Whether that's because of poor writing or because they rushed it since they filmed during the shutdowns and the pandemic so they couldn't flush ideas out to their full potential we'll never know.
Right now it just feels like someone wrote together a Rini centric fanfic and sold it to the writers to use for this season.
I'm not trying to spread hate but that's just how it feels.
Anyways sorry for the long rant, I just know I'm not the only one who feels this vibe.
