It was far too obviously trying to recreate the first season for me and the polish wasn't quite there. Season two actaully worked better in hindsight. The show would have worked better with a new creative team every year, the writer was never going to manage.
I wonder how much of the quality of the first was because of nonsense Reddit. Two things spring to mind
Spoiler:
The green ear defenders makes way more sense than a person painting their ears.
When the family came in at the end and the music was dramatic I was expecting some terrifying thing to happen because of the theoretical links with the cult and the wife
Having said that I think when the show wanted to go serious tensions there were few shows which could do ramping tense through nothing as well.
I mean I genuinely got more excited because of some of the theories on the internet and some of those ideas were better than what happened in the show.
Until the show reveals its hand the idea of the show (and the elevation caused by external discussion) might make it feel like a better show than it is.