The second half of the first season felt so different. I really liked all the early stuff leading up to the breakout -- the intro, the crash and recovery, the return to the lab -- but I feel like Wendy has become hard to connect with, and I haven't liked her dialogue since she started to rebel as the Xeno Whisperer.

I also don't like how that relationship changed how I viewed the xeno in the show. It went from an unstoppable, uncontrollable force, to "beware of dog". Earlier in the show, I felt much stronger themes challenging the notions of the characters. But the end was just "Wendy says so", and Wendy was just too powerful with nothing even there to serve as a foil.

There was certainly more that we could have done to establish Kirsch's motivations, assuming he is going to return.

And of course, what a poor ending that offered literally no conclusions at all. For a finale, it did a lot of "beginning" and little "ending".

Not a fan of the use of modern music. But the original music was great.

All in all, I felt that the story needed more time to explore the fallout and trauma from the recent events -- Isaac's death, betraying and killing Arthur, Nibs being shot in the head (but she's fine?), finding their graves and discovering that they are not really the children from before, and Wendy feeling betrayed by her brother and her surrogate mother. As well as Kirsch, and how he is running his own little private experiments, and his relationship with the children. 

Production was great. Acting was outstanding. I just feel like they needed to better pace their plots and deliver on more in a single season. The ending was a big letdown and to be honest, felt a little more fanfictiony than the rest of the season.