Iron Fist Season 2 Review: 5 Ups & 7 Downs

6. The Awful, AWFUL Subplots

Almost every single Netflix Marvel show is bogged down by a needless abundance of subplots intended to pad out the 13-episode duration.

With its sensibly shortened episode order, there was hope that Iron Fist's second season would feel more concise and dispense with the hokey, over-dramatic interludes, but that's not the case at all.

Ward (Tom Pelphrey) and Joy Meachum (Jessica Stroup) are once again forced to contend with the worst of it: their season tenure begins with soul-destroyingly boring business chatter and later veers off into family melodrama worthy of a soap opera.

On the whole it just feels grossly, excessively plotted and cluttered with languid through-lines that go nowhere interesting. As is so common in TV, the creators have mistaken convolution for complexity, and as a result it can be truly exhausting sitting through the bloat to get to the prime (or, at least, better) stuff.

Seriously, don't binge this thing unless you want to end up tired and irritable.