Chance and D are back at it. Chance is the pupil with the big time psychological skills. Chance begins to learn to handle himself. Remember at the beginning of the first season, he is a bit of a Casper Milquetoast. He goes from in over his head to managing pretty well. But his newfound persona becomes, at time, too much of a hair trigger. His daughter has put her finger on his evolution. D needs to rein him in or he will get himself killed. The first episode presents the new case. A philanthropist billionaire who has the adulation of everyone is probably responsible in some way for the deaths of several people. That cop that had Chance on the ropes earlier knows something about the incident of the last episode and is extorting our guy into doing some work for him.
4 Reviews
Episode 201
bobcobb30111 October 2017
Warning: Spoilers
Chance was a nice little show last year. A show that tried too hard to be Breaking Bad while focusing on the crazy patients a psychiatrist encounters, but an enjoyable one nonetheless.
The season 2 premiere shook things up greatly and came right out of the gate swinging. Dr. Chance, just like Walter White did slowly on Breaking Bad, went from being afraid and on the sidelines to taking matters into his own hands. And surprisingly, Hugh Laurie is believable as a violent person.
This was a great episode, the show is now heading in the right direction and I can't wait to see what is next this season.
The season 2 premiere shook things up greatly and came right out of the gate swinging. Dr. Chance, just like Walter White did slowly on Breaking Bad, went from being afraid and on the sidelines to taking matters into his own hands. And surprisingly, Hugh Laurie is believable as a violent person.
This was a great episode, the show is now heading in the right direction and I can't wait to see what is next this season.
Time travel sci - fi or film noir?
nickhutson-2870925 October 2017
At the start of the episode, Hugh Laurie says Eldon Chance is a 53 year old neuro psychiatrist. Funny that, over a year ago, in the first series, he was a 55 year old neuro psychiatrist. I also thought Hugh Laurie was wearing guy liner in this episode, which was off-putting, was it meant to make him look younger? So how can he lose 2 years? Has D got a time machine? Is a 56 year old bad ass neuro psychiatrist just too old to do bad ass stuff and they hoped no one would notice?
Don't Let Season Premiere Persuade You to Give Up
hilaryjrp17 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
The premiere of Season 2 is a weak episode. For anyone who watched Season 1 and is on the fence about whether to be all-in for Season 2, this review is to convince you to be patient.
The start of a new season has to set up the basic plot. The hard thing for a limited series starting a new season is that its audience already knows the continuing characters, in this case the hero (Chance, Hugh Laurie) and the best alternate-hero you'll ever see on made-for-streaming (D, Ethan Suplee). D is not an anti-hero; he's an alternate hero. For reasons that will become clear in the episodes to come, it's important to keep this distinction in mind. D is Chance's "co-hero."
The first episode of Season 2 is too full of D's sensei-pithy spiritual comments. Neatly sandwiched between a series of revenge scenes against various evil-doers, the D "sermons" sound adolescent and almost trite. This is a shame, not only because D has suffered so badly and continues to be plagued by a brutally abusive narcissist father. (No spoiler here; the audience learns all about D's nightmare childhood in Season 1.) As Season 2 continues, D's insights never once are wrong--even when, shared with people besides Eldon Chance, they lead to consequences he doesn't intend.
So this episode is filled with two guys--Chance and D--basically doing a t.v. version of a Tarantino film...and it's not good. Just remember: this specific episode is burdened with 1) starting an entirely new story arc; while 2) being unable to be exciting, specifically because the episode is a set-up for what will follow. In my opinion, "Chance" made a mistake by relying on as much violence in this Season 2 premiere as it did.
Don't give up. If you do, you'll miss what everyone will be calling the best streaming series of the decade. Serious.
The start of a new season has to set up the basic plot. The hard thing for a limited series starting a new season is that its audience already knows the continuing characters, in this case the hero (Chance, Hugh Laurie) and the best alternate-hero you'll ever see on made-for-streaming (D, Ethan Suplee). D is not an anti-hero; he's an alternate hero. For reasons that will become clear in the episodes to come, it's important to keep this distinction in mind. D is Chance's "co-hero."
The first episode of Season 2 is too full of D's sensei-pithy spiritual comments. Neatly sandwiched between a series of revenge scenes against various evil-doers, the D "sermons" sound adolescent and almost trite. This is a shame, not only because D has suffered so badly and continues to be plagued by a brutally abusive narcissist father. (No spoiler here; the audience learns all about D's nightmare childhood in Season 1.) As Season 2 continues, D's insights never once are wrong--even when, shared with people besides Eldon Chance, they lead to consequences he doesn't intend.
So this episode is filled with two guys--Chance and D--basically doing a t.v. version of a Tarantino film...and it's not good. Just remember: this specific episode is burdened with 1) starting an entirely new story arc; while 2) being unable to be exciting, specifically because the episode is a set-up for what will follow. In my opinion, "Chance" made a mistake by relying on as much violence in this Season 2 premiere as it did.
Don't give up. If you do, you'll miss what everyone will be calling the best streaming series of the decade. Serious.
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