Okay, I haven't watched up to the latest episode (I've seen the other 5?) for Season 2, but it looks like no one else is very excited either.
This is another case with great setup, great actors/characters that could be worked with... and I just feel like Season 2 bites and took an artistic misstep.
This was nowhere more obvious than in Episode 5, which was like the capstone of a particular 2-3 episode plotline. It was arguably poorly plotted, but a decent director might have shot it in such a way as to salvage it a bit... and THAT failed as well. The ending was hackneyed enough that you might expect to see it as a first-time director's/writer's high school film project.
There's also the intersection with the web series (16 1-minute web episodes) about the airplane flight, right about the time the outbreak occurred. It was highly touted that "one of the characters would appear on the show" which made them sound like they'd become a regular. Well, I had a pretty good idea (out of two) which one would show up as a potential regular; as it were, both showed up for a few episodes, but both were entirely mishandled and failed to capitalize on the goodwill of the web series audience, and now both seem to be written off the show. Total crappy handling.
And while we're staying on the water, I was hoping for something a little thematically different so that there would be a difference between the two shows. Instead we're just seeing what we see in TWD, just accelerated a few seasons. People are jerks, and zombies are dangerous. They are just having nautical adventures versus land-based ones. Whatever.
Again, so far a disappointment. Which is really a shame because almost every cast member is just really solid, and you've got characters like Strand who just are interesting to study. It's a plotting/theme (AKA "vision") thing, not the actors.