Hot take: This show became uhhh pretty mid and boring not gonna lie. Why? Well let me present you with a hypothetical. You get offered cake alright? And at first you accept it and its good and then you get offered more cake and its fine then you get offered more and at that point you get sick of it but thats what you only get offered. Spy x Family Season 2 is basically that. An overabundance of one thing and not really much else. Granted for what it does it does really well. I think the slice of life moments are well executed displaying the characters in entertaining moments and it really helps you show that Family feel of the show. And the sound visual and animation department is top notch as always and its never going to be an object of criticism for me because from the start its proven to be really great But...thats basically the only thing thats in abundance. While most people deem it fine with the show just being a montage of the Forger family engaging in shenanigans or the other side characters going about the stuff to me personally it feels like the story has taken a back seat for the sake of filler or episodic structures where its just characters placed in different situations without so much as a process of development or changes in the current situation in the plot. Yes I know Yors arc on the boat was technically Yor getting development but to me it feels lacking because for one it still suffers from the issues I mentioned feeling like filler not adding anything to the story and the development itself feels lacking like theres no inherent change beyond just motivational changes. Yes it is well animated action but the action itself doesnt feel emotionally engaging because the show has shown time and time again either for the sake of a gag or just a display of coolness how strong Yor is. While she did struggle I never thought for a second she would lose because I knew for one reason or another that she would win how else would the status quo of the Forger family be maintained after all if by the end of the fight Yor doesnt return to her family with them being none the wiser to her job? And that realization I feel displays the writing limitations of the show. The Forger family has to keep their double lives a secret so no matter what situation befalls on them theyll go back to being this happy family that doesnt seem suspicious of their own lives otherwise therell be a change in the dynamic and theyll not be able to do this happy slice of life fluff the show is known for. But having an overabundance of said SOL fluff leads to stagnancy an element thats already shown given the lack of progression to Operation Strix Loids reason for starting a family in the first place. You can have the fluff thats not my issue but you need to have some progression otherwise youll tire out people from the lack of progress. Perhaps itll change with the upcoming movie but as the second season stands in a vacuum the show fails to pick up where the first season left off properly opting to just settle with letting the characters just go through the motions of a narrative without much change in the status quo. Its been often said but mostly ignored that the mangaka/writer of the show doesnt really enjoy or like Spy x Family. That he deemed it as rehab work or a side project that he would not commit much work into. And I gotta say with how the second season went about it shows. Which makes this all the more depressing when his rehab work basically became his most famous IP thus far as opposed to his previous works. After all if youre probably not having any fun with your work its gonna show and others probably wont have any fun going through it. Also Yor is overrated. Thats it.