WOAT parents on the show, letting teens make decisions they are nowhere ready to handle. It was too much of we trust that you will make the right decisions. S2 felt disconnected to S1 even though it was to shed light on the motivation of the characters. Some of those kids were willing to cover up rapes because people would find out that they shared poetry in class or were a lesbian LOL. The one guy who said lets throw Bryce under the bus probably had the right idea among the conspirators instead of let's shut Clay up as if they are some mafia that can make problems disappear. They also tried to explore the race angle in S2 after making those characters "color blind" in S1