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Damages · Season 2 · FX / DirecTV

Damages Season 2

Damages Season 2 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 8.2/10. 13 episodes on FX / DirecTV from 7 January 2009.

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BollyMeter8.2/10A 90-percent-fresh sophomore season maintained the structural engine with a new case and William Hurt as the antagonist. Critics found the formula slightly more familiar but praised the continued craft.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Season 2 introduced a Wall Street-centred case with William Hurt as the primary foil for Patty. The 90-percent Rotten Tomatoes score reflected a consensus that Damages had settled into its identity rather than strained to prove it. The split-timeline device remains sharp, and the dynamic between Close and Byrne deepens as Ellen's complicity grows harder to deny. The season occasionally over-explains what Season 1 trusted the audience to feel, but the craft - cinematography, score, performance - remained far above the cable average of the era.

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Season Over Season

Season 2 maintains the legal-thriller engine with a new antagonist but loses some of the debut's shock of the new.