While many reviewers stated expressed an opinion that the second season of Tourist doesn’t quite hold up to the first one, I would beg to differ.
I mean, the first season was great, don’t get me wrong, but the majority of it hinged on the fact that Jamie Dornan’s character did not know who he was—a suspense bit impossible to maintain in full, especially in a show dedicated to finding out just who that character is. With that in mind, season two is a perfect continuation of that journey. The two leads are now together, as a proper couple, despite certain aesthetic disparities (I mean, come on, that’s Christian Grey, people). The two of them are very much in love and have both become tourists now traveling wherever the wind takes them, until a letter from Ireland finds them and they decide to go there and find out more of that origin story. The pan goes off the rails from the get-go with our favorite amnesiac getting kidnapped. And from there on it’s Tourist, the Gangs of Ireland edition, with Eugene Cassidy (real name finally found) at the very center of it, stuck between two warring clans with an ancient grudge. Mama Cassidy played by the always formidable Olwen Fouéré is a force to reckon with alone, but there’s more, and the revelations keep on coming, while the former Probationary Constable Chambers gets into a mess of her own, assisted or hindered by the troubled diminutive local cop played most charming by Conor MacNeill. Also, her former fiancé is back, traveling to Ireland to win his woman back or drink Guiness trying. He’d been woke-educated (hilariously so, just watch him mansplain Mansplaining) and is mostly here for rather effective comic relief. All in all, it’s very entertaining. Action mixed with mystery and dark comedy in a way that actually works, aided in no small way by a very talented cast. As an armchair traveler might say, well worth a visit. Right down to one final whopper of a twist at the very end. Guess they’re hoping for season 3. I wouldn’t say no to it either.
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