Healy's assholishness is compounded by his racism and homophobia.

+1 The male and female former guards who are dating each other.

What Brandon Teasy said. John's objectives were to:
…deflect suspicion from John/the Rayburns,
…match the M.O. of the burned boat/bodies from season 1/ep. 1, and
…in so doing intentionally implicate Lowry.

Agreed. But for some reason, your choice of TFI Fridays made me laugh out loud.

Diana's realization and confrontation of John, her spending the night at her sister's, then returning home and going through the motions of being "back" but obviously feeling disconnected from her husband, evoked faint memories of a fictional North Jersey mobster's blonde wife, who also had a son and daughter.

Viewership and viewers' ratings carry more weight than critics' ratings.

MY TAKE ON IT:

John's decision was powerful, yes. But I do think he's got an over-healthy case of hubris, in that he thought he could control whatever fallout occurred. He's lucky the dead girl's father killed Lowry, but I'm looking forward to seeing how he handles the inevitable reveal of the damaging cassette tape.

I agree, mostly. But Sally's behavior makes for deep family dysfunction, too. For example:

I suppose so, just as in real life.

RE: "Ben Mendelsohn, as usual, is great here, capturing Danny’s reluctance to go full bad."
Just say it, I know you want to: "Danny's reluctance to fully BREAK BAD". There, I've said it.

Absolutely your choice. But before bailing, I suggest considering other points of view about this season, expressed in the posts below.

Just finished watching Part 20. Boy, those female Rayburns - whether in the family by blood or marriage - are pieces of work.

Perhaps my fave dialogue exchange this season:

I hope she gets to do more this season, too.

Speaking of criticisms and "groundwork" - my only real concerns, after watching season 1 and now 2.5 episodes of season 2 are:

Mida; David Zayas! I most recently remember him as Angel Batista on "Dexter" (terrible judge of character, Angel was), but I also fondly remember him from the films "16 Blocks" (2006) and "The Expendables" (2010), and from various cop shows, e.g., "CSI: Miami", "Law & Order" (and several of its spinoffs), ''New York…

I agree, except about the stick-in-the-mud, part. I thought Meg's boss/friend did a masterful job of balancing the needs to: fire a shot over Meg's bow; communicate what behavior's not becoming for lawyers at that firm; demonstrate both friendly and boss-like concern and support, in multiple ways; give Meg the mixed…

I like this show. Far more than Damages, which really turned me off in some spots.

Jake (who I initially thought was Tobias) is dead. But we don't know for sure what happened to Tobias. Maybe (hopefully) we'll see him again.