Netflix ‘The Accident’ Season 2 Review - Sex, Violence and Revenge

At least, one cannot say that the second season of The Accident/Accidente was made without any direction, any aim. Season 1 ended with cliffhangers and loose threads, which creator Leonardo Padrón addresses and resolves here before bidding us farewell. With Season 2, The Accident manages to do what most Netflix Originals aren't able to achieve due to unpredictable cancellations: it ties its plot threads and...ends. If those final scenes indicate anything, it's that Padrón is done with this story and wants to move on to something else. Then again, it's entirely possible that we could end up getting a third season out of nowhere. Now take a moment to grasp that we are appreciating a show for reaching a conclusion, for giving us a climax. What should be the norm is being celebrated as a significant achievement. But then, The Accident Season 2 has no other great qualities, virtues, or strengths. Its script could have very well been generated by ChatGPT, given the stupid actions of some characters and the "well, this was a waste of time" feeling one gets when the show ends. 

Season 2 begins one year after the events of the first season. The parents still miss their dead kids and have not fully moved on from that tragic "bouncy castle" incident. Daniela (Ana Claudia Talancón) even visits Fabián (Erick Elías) for therapy, which I found both appropriate and interesting. The show could have used these sessions to generate emotionally charged confessions by diving deep into Daniela's head. Unfortunately, all we see are generic "I am in so much pain" moments, and, apart from one scene in Episode 1, we never see Daniela receiving therapy from Fabián. What's befuddling is that Daniela, at one point, calls Fabián for an urgent appointment, but the meeting apparently never takes place. If I had to provide a reason, I would point out that Padrón uses grief as mere window dressing. He likes to show characters in distress without getting close to them. In Season 2, for instance, he has Brenda (Valentina Acosta) trying to mold the identity of her newborn baby according to the appearance of her dead son, which strains her relationship with her husband (Ruben Zamora). This is a complex, painful territory, but The Accident reduces it all to an image of a suspicious wife who thinks her husband is cheating on her with a coworker. 

Ultimately, The Accident's selling point has always been its sex scenes, which aren't that explicit, though they do come with a sprinkle of illicit suggestions. Wives cheat on husbands; husbands cheat on wives. This time, an ex-lover (Bárbara de Regil) appears to break somebody out of the prison, but her plans, in the end, seem futile. It's just one of those things characters are made to do to move the plot wheels. The same can be said of Lucia (Macarena García Romero), who, in one episode, starts driving recklessly simply to generate tension and keep the show busy. However, the worst scene is definitely the one where Lupita (Eréndira Ibarra) and Ulises (Luis Ernesto Franco) discuss whatever they have done to frame Charro (Alberto Guerra), her husband, just so that Alex (Sebastian Dante) can hear them and the show can introduce some more tension and conflict. Such lame tricks further prove that the series should not be taken seriously. The title, then, should probably be considered as a confession—a confession that the success of the first season was an...accident. And as far as Season 2 is concerned, take it as proof that if you didn't like the show back then due to its blandness, you were not wrong in your judgment. The Accident is tame and vacuous.

Final Score- [3.5/10]
Reviewed by - Vikas Yadav
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Publisher at Midgard Times