The Fatal Seduction Season 2 is an irreverent, visually appealing show that widely stretches into the erotic and glamorous aesthetic of the piece. The rich production design, vibrant costumes, and gleaming camera work make a world of luxury and scandal, and skillfully attracts those who want to lose their mind and escape. Nevertheless, behind this seductive superficiality is a meandering and hurried storyline, where there are several story lines going on; that is, between wrongful incarceration to political intrigues, which are rarely compatible with each other (and thus, convergent). These anarchic narrations are detrimental to the character growth, making the major characters, particularly Nandi, seem inconsistent and underdeveloped, reducing the level of investment in emotions.
With its shortcomings, the series has performances that sometimes make the content better, the actors have subtlety and charm that balance the scripted melodrama. The dialogue, cheesy at times, nevertheless can shockingly, and actually, give an honest feeling of emotion and grab the passionate soap-opera sound the show is intended to convey. The last episodes are trying to/somewhat succeed in returning to more dramatic emotional conflicts and tensions, to provide some answers but it is too late to save the previous disjointed story telling fully. The series ends up swerving between suggestive spectacle and narrative confusion, and it leaves people feeling that they haven’t been able to explore the characters as they might have.
Finally, Fatal Seduction Season 2 is a guilty pleasure that is strong in its visual and sensual presentation but not strong in its cognition and substance. It’s a show that is cool and risky and has plenty of titillation available to the people who want to watch a trashy, provocative thrill. But to viewers who want intricate characters or a tight story, it might be wanting. Its bold stance makes it an interesting but also a bad defective entry into the genre, whose ultimate effect is more that of fascination and disorder.
