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Originally Posted by Shoes
100%- the setting of an isolated Alaskan town in darkness for weeks is the perfect atmosphere of what could be a real creepy show. Unfortunately the writing has been awful, haven't really advanced the plot or leaned into creating scenes and situations that can really let the setting of the show shine. Too many shitty character conflicts with characters the audience has no connection to.
First episode set the table fairly well but it's been downhill after that.
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It's a show that can't really figure out what it wants to be. If you want to make it about ghosts and a crazy murder(?) and mysterious videos of people being killed then you have to go all in and focus on that. If you want it to be less about the murder and more about the characters like season 1, then focus on that. Instead we have neither. There's been very little actual detective work, and most of it that has been done centers in on a murder that wasn't even the original one we see in episode 1 anyway.
I still have no idea what they could possibly find in these caves that will explain anything. The leader of the mining company saying "they can't get in those caves at all costs" was just really funny to me. Like the original murder they are investigating and maybe happened there was years ago. If you are part of some vast corporate coverup, you've had plenty of time to clean things up.
I guess the only explanation that makes sense is they are going to find out in the caves that there is some kind of chemical that is getting into the water and it causes some people to have hallucinations and go crazy and that's what happened in the original murder and the scientists at the station were trying to find a cure or something for it but it ended up getting them.