This is my post particularly talking about how the Helluva Boss fandom has given the second season a more mixed reaction as compared to Season 1.
Keep in mind, I will also be discussing other fandom issues I've noticed over the number of years along with how other movies like Ruby Gilman, The Flash, Multiverse of Madness, The Little Mermaid, Elemental, Turning Red, etc have gotten low viewers since it's something I've noticed regarding the entire entertainment industry as a whole. I'll leave a tl:dr at the end summarising this.
But first, let me start with Helluva Boss' second season (I will be leaving out Unhappy Camper's criticisms for obvious reasons). Some of the common criticisms I've heard in the fandom after "The Circus" until now can be summarized as:
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Blitzø and Stolas shouldn't have met when they were kids since it now paints their present day interactions as being gross since it seems like Blitzø's taking advantage of Stolas by having sex with him and stealing the Grimoire.
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Stella is now just an adult Veruca Salt and isn't the manipulative she-beast many fans thought she was back in Season 1, to the point where Andrealphus points this out.
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Underdeveloped characters, this is something I've seen since Season 1 particularly with Millie and Loona. The second episode of the series fleshes put a supporting character and a minor character (Stolas and Octavia), and not either one of the main characters.
VivziePop did say that a future episode will be focused on Millie but apparent leaks and the time people have been waiting has made people uncomfortable. That along with Loona being more comforting to Blitzø in "Queen Bee" and going to kicking him in the crotch for getting too close in "Seeing Stars" paints some double standards on female-to-male violence in the show with it being played for laughs, but Stella is taken seriously.
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Striker is no longer intimidating and has a massive ego with his statue in "Western Energy" showing off his huge penis. I feel like people were more torn up by Norman Reedus not coming back to the role (he's a busy man) and personally, I didn't notice until the credits since I'm not a Striker D-rider like some fandom members are and am just a normal viewer.
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The Stolas/Stella argument is now more one-sided on Stolas' favor instead of being more balanced with Stolas' writing only showing him as a sympathetic, gay, UWU bird man in Season 2.
This post is too long so I'll divide it into two parts.
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