Bloody Monday Season 2

Falcon returns to 'Save the Earth' with his hacking skills, but we've seen everything he can do in the first season. Hardly anything changes with Fujimaru Takagi; there is an attempt to make it seem as if he has been wholly affected by the incidents of the past (first season) but nothing has really changed with his character. Pitted against 'Spider', Falcon must use all his magic to do what he does best, but we don't find out like we did in the first season to what extent Falcon's hacking capabilities are, because it's all just glossed over in the end. Spoiler? Falcon wins, obviously, but we never find out how. I always love Miura Haruma's acting but he overdoes it it here with the screwed up faces and tears.

The main storyline is as interesting as always, but the subplots are very much less so. Kawashima Umika's Takagi Haruka runs around unsupervised around Tokyo with her so-called boyfriend God-knows doing what but contributing very little to the main story; Narimiya Hiroki is underused as the sinister J who drops hints that he knows what's going on but in the end just suffers from sister-complex. Satoh Takeru's Kujoh Otoya plays a main role in the development of the story but becomes redundant in the end.

There are some shockers and interesting twists; the first episode was a blast, and I quite liked the emotional and psychological aspects of Spider's sob-story, but it's not really enough to want to recommend this drama to anyone.