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Technically speaking, I guess I should have titled this an �End� post rather than a season finale.� This is not officially a split cour, and there�s been no official announcement of a sequel (and timetable).� But we didn�t need that *see you next x mission� end card to know it�s only a matter of time.� Spy x Family is huge, very huge.� It�s one of the biggest hits of the decade, it has a theatrical film coming soon, and it�s a virtual certainty that it will receive a complete adaptation (though it may get the Haikyuu!! treatment, as it�s even more popular).� I�ll be very surprised if we don�t see a continuation (whether they call it Season 3 or Season 2 Part 2) before the end of 2024.
Which is, you know, fine.� Some of the bloom is off the rose for me � this season was a definite step down from the first.� SxF is another kaijuu I just can�t fully embrace.� At its best it can be very good indeed � the comedy is sometimes really sharp and when it shifts into true screwball comedy (as in old Hollywood) mode, it�s got a lot of charm.� But the bad moments can be pretty grisly, and a lot of this season was frankly kind of boring.
I mean, you�re going to finish with an entire episode focused on Bond?� That�s somehow fitting, seems to me.� Borf is fine, but he�s not a character to carry a series for 22 minutes.� He�s got one gag, basically, and if he�s in the spotlight for too long Endou basically has to put that gag on a loop.� The training thing and the ice cream and the bird poop misunderstandings would have worked fine as a six or seven-minute B part.� But a whole episode they�re not, even with the fire subplot thrown in.
This season seemed to have less of what really makes Spy x Family look the best � the Eden stuff generally and Damian specifically.� There was no real development in Damian�s subplot, but in fact the whole thing with Loid�s mission (which is the catalyst for the entire premise) went absolutely nowhere.� And this is a larger problem, in that SxF just doesn�t have much development, period.� Yor stays dumb, Yuri remains insufferable, Anya is Anya,� Nothing much ever seems to change, really.� And that limits a series� upside in a profound way.
All that makes me feel pretty ambivalent about the idea of covering a third (or whatever it�s eventually called) season.� I imagine I probably will, at least at the start, because I still feel like this show�s best is the strongest of any of the current megaseries crop�s best.� I just wish we saw a lot more of it, and that I had some real idea where Endou was trying to go with this series � whether there�s some sort of larger point to any of it.� There are times I wonder if he know himself, to be honest � and that too is part of the problem.
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