American Vandal Season 2 Review: 7 Ups & 2 Downs

2. It's Sensibly Standalone

American Vandal
Netflix

There was a lot of pre-release speculation that this new season might have a surprising tie-in to season one, but thankfully, the new series is an almost completely standalone offering.

Apart from Peter (Tyler Alvarez) and Sam (Griffin Gluck) returning as our documentarians, there aren't any contrived, forced links back to the #WhoDrewTheDicks phenomenon, nor really many callbacks or references to speak of.

It's for the best, really, because the season's going to be unavoidably compared to what came before regardless, so there's no need to encourage that further by, say, giving Dylan a cameo or something.

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