Adventure Time: Fionna & Cake S2 ★★☆☆☆

I never liked the Fionna and Cake episodes of Adventure Time and I am generally biased against multiverse stories and alternative universe versions of characters so I was surprised at how much I had enjoyed the first series. The second definitely did not land as well with me, though. I think the second half was a lot stronger than the first but overall the halfway house between episodic and serialised formats did not help it. The episodes that do something very different and self-contained, like Fionna and Fennel getting high and going to Venus, were highlights but otherwise it often felt like it was spinning its wheels while throwing up new hurdles to cause the protagonists to not make any progress on anything. Ended up feeling very meandering and unsatisfying. Also the original show ended over half a decade ago now and I do not remember who any of these side characters are.