i suffered through Another Life season 2

Somehow Netflix greenlit Another Life for a season 2 but then they did the truly impressive task of making it worse than the first. Let's talk about how bad Another Life season 2 is.
Season 1 video: • Complaining About Netl...
PLUSHY CAMPAIGN STARTS OCTOBER 29TH! www.makeship.c...
Mask kink merch- swell-entertai...
Swell Slasher merch- swell-entertai...
Swell spooky simp- swell-entertai...
Check out my new podcast Swell Shenanigans! podcasts.apple...
PSSST! I started writing on Medium for a video sign up for memberships here / membership
If there are any products you would like me to try, topics you would want me to cover, or film or series you would like me to review feel free to reach out to me!
Like, comment, subscribe, and share this video!
Thank you for watching and a special thanks to my patrons for supporting me!
My P.O. Box-
Swell Entertainment
P.O. Box 714
Beverly Hills, CA 90210
Merch- teespring.com/...
Social Media
Personal-
Twitter- / luvu2golka
Instagram- / luvu2golka
Ko-fi- ko-fi.com/swel...
Patreon- / swellentertainment
Venmo- Amanda-Golka
Depop- @swell_stuff
Swell Entertainment-
email- [e-mail]
My Gear (This list contains affiliate links)
DSLR Camera- go.magik.ly/ml...
Microphone- go.magik.ly/ml...
Tripod- amzn.to/3bg215i
Current subscriber count: 256,454
#anotherlife #netflix #swellentertainment

[@Emh19]

Every time Netflix greenlights new seasons of a terrible show and cancels a great one I die a little inside

[@muteddeer]

srsly why did they get rid of santa clarita diet :|

[@albertjacobosantana6985]

no one watches the good shows but hate watch the bad ones so they renew the bad ones cuz.....viewership

[@averyjeanne]

Justice for I Am Not Ok With This!!!!

[@monkaWGiga]

@@averyjeanne That's the one I always think of! Heartbreaking we'll never get a conclusion to that cliffhanger :(

[@Metroid250]

They learned from Facebook that outrage lasts longer in engagement

[@docsmooth]

Content wise season 2 was horrible but I only saw maybe 15 minutes of each episode because It helped me fall asleep so in that case, season 2 was great.

[@coda1235]

I think that's the best way to watch another life

[@marielcarey4288]

@@coda1235 background noise

[@QueerCripple]

Awesome, my sleep has been crap lately 🤣

[@coda1235]

@@QueerCripple mine too if we're being honest

[@rl318]

I passed out on two episodes myself. I do not know if it was the droning dialog or weird lighting but it was better than those ambient noise videos.

[@lauramax93]

“I wanted her to choose her daughter. Choosing humanity is boring” Oooh girl! You gotta play/watch a play through of The Last of Us.

[@Larissawesome]

Oh she’s DEFINITELY gonna watch the show when it comes out, so one way or another she’s gonna see the ending

[@courtstuck6739]

This!!!

[@PopChanx]

Oh my god, YES. I need this!

[@AXSofHFDS]

That was my first thought too

[@TannerisSmol97]

What a dumbas comment, are you saying she'd enjoy it because the game forces you to play as Joel making a game changing decision at the end of the game that you have no control over?

[@jackharper2087]

I fucking love this show. It’s so bad. Would never watch it again.

[@KristylikeKrisT]

Me with riverdale

[@dxcibel7772]

same it's horrible i absolutely need to watch it. am i part of the problem

[@osotegreat]

I can't be the only one who is tired of Sackoff's talent being continually wasted.

[@wolfdragonhorse]

At this point I'm worried she might not be aware it's a bad show...since she stuck around for a second season while several other actors jumped ship, so to speak...

[@angelalovell5669]

@@wolfdragonhorse Maybe! It could also be that her schedule was booked after the gig and there wasn't much time to change things around if she dropped Another Life, could have been contractually obligated or even that she didn't want to bail on a show that was maybe fun to film, had a great cast to work with or an amazing crew, especially during the pandemic. There are a lot of factors that go into why actors accept jobs, and they're usually not to do with artistic integrity, unfortunately. They gotta eat too.

[@wolfdragonhorse]

@@angelalovell5669 those are all very fair and reasonable possibilities! I really hope it's one or multiple of those

[@sandythemaster6898]

She'll always have BSG and Longmire

[@MetaphorUB]

You are not, friend.

[@SoaringLettuce]

I like to call Erik "live action Goku" because that's who he was in Dragonball Evolution. That's all you'll ever be to me, bro.

[@nailinthefashion]

And just like that (snaps fingers) my repression of that film was undone, and with it, my sanity also left. The horror of the cgi is enough to make me weep...

[@caffeinatedkatie4696]

He was also Robbie in the 2005 War of the World's if that helps at all.

[@SoaringLettuce]

@@caffeinatedkatie4696 lol I know, but War of the worlds was a good movie. I had the displeasure of watching Dragonball Evolution in theaters

[@caffeinatedkatie4696]

@@SoaringLettuce oh dear my condolences

[@FirstLast-kp9jx]

Oh yeah, he always looks so familiar to me but I couldn't place it.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

They probably crammed in 6 seasons because they doubted they would be allowed enough time to do all 6 before being canceled. Lol.

[@yetidoesstuff228]

Yeah, it could have been a decent show if 1. Half the cast didn’t leave. 2. They didn’t cram all this into 1 season. The show could have worked if the cast left, but the fact that they crammed all this crap into 1 season, makes it feel crammed.

[@ianesgrecia8568]

Let's be real and accept that they f it up so much on season 1 that this show needed a miracle AND a very good writing to succed.

[@SoManyRandomRamblings]

@@ianesgrecia8568 no argument there. Lol

[@kalystagutierrez1607]

"Australia is not inhabitable" I see that nothing has changed

[@Naptosis]

I imagine it's totally overrun with vengeful emus and dropbears.

[@a.s.1659]

@@Naptosis as if dropbears aren't already vengeful

[@eriksteele2810]

The worst was her husband, the "scientist" playing pidgeon noises to the alien artifact, suddenly knew how to build neutrino weapons when the plot needed it to happen.

[@scifirealism5943]

deus ex machina.

[@k0lpA]

I hated him so much, but he was like the funniest character at the same time. Spitting such utter BS with a straight face like that cracks me up

[@scifirealism5943]

@@k0lpA lol

[@QuestioningYourSanity]

I've seen shows sacrifice the scifi for the story or sacrifice the story for the scifi but doing both is almost impressive.

[@stahppls2293]

This show makes Katee Sackoff look so exhausted and worn She's so radiant in The Mandalorian 💛

[@gametime2473]

If you want to see her at her best, watch Syfy's Battlestar Galactica. It also happens to be one of the best shows of all time.

[@jeepersjava]

She’s so chaotic and real and troubled in Longmire. I love her so much and it physically pains me that she’s in this god forsaken mess

[@gametime2473]

@@jeepersjava There is an industry around negativity nowadays. Don't take other people's opinions as serious. If you are interested, watch it and make your own mind up. Most of the time I have done that, I found out that haters are just that. A word to the wise.

[@jonfreeman9682]

@@gametime2473 So you're saying battle star is good? I remember the original series way back in the 80s and thought it was a third class sci-fi after Star Trek and Star Wars.

[@gametime2473]

@@jonfreeman9682 Yeah, I didn't like the 80s one either honestly. The sci-fi channel one is epic.

[@blane2472]

When I saw the second season released I got so excited. Not because I wanted to see it, but because I knew you'd review it.

[@ThakYuki]

I started watching season 2 because it popped up. I looked away for five seconds and suddenly half the crew is different.

[@jonfreeman9682]

I was not a fan of how they wrote off the cast.

[@melleelizabeth2853]

I love how passionate you is about how much cooler the other alien's ship is. What grudge do you have about spaceship design?

[@k0lpA]

As a sci-fi fan, spaceship design is serious business

[@ilexdiapason]

i love how you started writing this comment in "how passionate she is" form then decided to change the pronoun but forgot to change the "is"

[@DouglasBurton]

Haha, so just not even gonna put Netlfix in the title at all this time. Thanks for going through this, I was never gonna power through again to find out how bad it would be.

[@leileyaravencroft]

This sounds like someone watched Contact and The Host and decided both of those were good stories to revisit.

[@iciajay6891]

Nailed it.

[@gateauxq4604]

Also was very jealous of The Expanse because it’s actually good. That alien looks just like one of the lifeforms from Expanse.

[@harry_ord]

The korean film the host is pretty good.

[@williammiller3277]

Dont forget independence day.

[@Janzer_]

To revist, and destroy...

[@pastelricky]

Another life is my favortie pure trash sifi series on Netflix. It is just so bad I cannot pull away. I love it.

[@23ahndra]

I ain’t NEVA gone watch this show…but Ima listen to Amanda talk her shyt about it.🤷🏾‍♀️🤣

[@shochre6497]

Same, she makes everything more entertaining

[@sirenelectric143]

Im mad THIS has 3 seasons, while Netflix cancelled “Teenage Bounty Hunters” on a cliffhanger

[@harry_ord]

likewise, the first season was so much fun.

[@iamepic6726]

Netlfix stay canceling all the good shows

[@jacobd1984]

Teenage Bounty Hunters being cancelled was disgraceful.

[@ElGaby323]

There is no 3rd season of this.

[@leDespicable]

It only has two

[@monicaenns9967]

I had no intention of watching this. So thank you Swell for watching this Netlfix show, so I don't have to!

[@twerkingsanta]

It's kind of her thing.

[@bgroesser]

I heard how bad season one was. I'm kind of surprised they wasted another season on it.

[@Zero-di3cf]

Honestly, once the aliens were revealed to be world conquers i lost interest

[@HerrIMorke]

"Australia is barely habitable" Speaking as an Aussie, way too late.

[@whoinvitedthatguy6417]

sci fi media made by people who failed their science classes in highschool are my favorite genre of bad media

[@issi9740]

it's fictional

[@scifirealism5943]

@@issi9740 that's self-evident.

[@issi9740]

@@scifirealism5943 apparently not

[@scifirealism5943]

@@issi9740 you can be passionate about stories.

[@issi9740]

​@@scifirealism5943 and how many realistic crime series or emergency room series or any other genre have you seen? At least in scifi they add the "fiction" in the name

[@janaicr9629]

I'm just happy you didn't change Netlfix. We're all tired of Netflix Originals, there may be hope for this new kid...🤔

[@erikdaniels0n]

Ah yes, my favorite Netlfix show is back for another season

[@ImperativeGames]

So, how's life under the bridge? ^^

[@Kayworx]

That one episode that you actually liked sounds like it could have been an episode of Doctor Who

[@nailinthefashion]

This season was very much Matt Smith's run but worse

[@raeganj6744]

It reminded me of Stargate, especially with the healing boxes

[@jacklandismusic]

Not gonna lie, I’ve watched the first Another Life video multiple times. I have NEVER noticed the typo.

[@nailinthefashion]

"Hey let's try and make a better version of one of the most universally (ba dum tissss) loved shows, Star Trek, but more action packed and gayer. What could go wrong?" (Smashcut to every instance of wonky acting, memeable cgi, glaring plothole etc)

[@remulous]

*Gayer* than Star Trek? Impossible.

[@nf9053]

I got out of a very toxic 3 year relationship this past march and being dragged into binge watching the first season of this dumpster fire is still one of the things I'm most pissed about...and my ex broke up with me while my dad was on his death bed.

[@MaxDamageTV]

That escalated quickly.

[@CinemalecularFilms]

I thought Amanda was intentionally being salty with that Netlfix title in her first video...I mean, I noticed it...but who am I to criticize art? 😉

[@calupoh9788]

Amanda is the only person alive who can get away with making both an IPBS reference and a Twilight reference in the same video

[@IsaacIsaacIsaacson]

The most terrifying part of Another Life's science is that they just accept AI being able to make more AI as ... fine... If I was the aliens I'd blow the humans up before they cause an AI singularity.

[@tjenadonn6158]

It would be enough to get me starting a one-person Butlerian Jihad.

[@rouaneb6664]

i love living in australia, sci-fi's designated Disposable Country

[@kidd32888]

Why they renew this terrible show and cancelled some good shows?!

[@constantwanderlust]

I kinda enjoyed the second season more just cuz we got to see other planets and other aliens. That’s about it lol. I have no idea how this show got a second season but at least it sounds like it’s done.

[@tinytigertamer]

Hearing Amanda summarize this show makes me feel like I’m having a stoke

[@nenmaster5218]

I'd say it says a lot about this Society that objectively bad Shows are genuiinly seen as good or even great. Yes, i did. I just did use the dreaded O-Word, i know. That's how Writing and Stuff works: Humanity has figured Rules and such out. Chekovs Gun, Show, Dont Tell, these arent 'some random dudes opinion', they are universally accepted ways to not F-Up-hard. If aa Show were to; imagine; throw them all outta the Window... that'd be... negative?

[@katelawrence2500]

I actually enjoyed season 2. I thought killing off all the dud characters in the first episode was a great move. Of course I probably enjoyed it because I compared it to the train wreck of the first season. If it had no comparison i'd probably say its a dumpster fire as well.

[@stuffz4040]

Yeah I kinda liked how the characters’ incompetence added to the colonialism in space vibes. Also I’m happy they didn’t continue that trash threesome arc that could’ve been pulled straight out of the pages of Stephanie Myer or Cassandra Clare.

[@LG-of8ue]

It’s like I didn’t understand it word you were saying, but I enjoyed your summation nevertheless! 💜

[@ancientmaverick13]

This sounds like a cross between Battlestar and a Stargate episode. But bad. Also, you didn’t capitalize I. Sorry I didn’t notice Netlfix.

[@icoborg]

that's heresy my friend..

[@ArturGlass.C]

Me: Oh yeaaah Another Life that's the show that made like no sense and was super inconsistent right ? Amanda: Season 1 was more consistent than season 2 I'll give it that. ......Oh.....No...

[@Greenteabook]

Thank goodness Beauchamp isn't in the second season. I had to deal with Outlander, and at least their set design is amazing. I actually like it when people don't pronounce my name properly, it almost never happens.

[@culturedfrog7999]

This made me realize I apparently turn my brain off when I watch shows. I had no clue there were so many flaws with another life but oh my God now I see that it coud have been 100x better!

[@stuffz4040]

As someone with ADD, I kinda liked how the series jumped all over the place constantly oof.

[@samuelese22]

"oof" HAHAHAHAHAH

[@ayajade6683]

That crystalization infection is cool as hell so many interesting concepts just wasted on this mess

[@MetaphorUB]

I agree with both of your reviews! That said, I came to the opposite conclusion regarding people picking the many over the few. In my experience, people in movies always risk the many to save the few. Neo picks Trinity over humankind. The crew in The Martian risks their lives and the heartbreak of their family to rescue Matt Damon. Countless war movies refuse to leave a man behind, regardless of the cost: this is Saving Private Ryan’s central conceit. I think you get my point: the hero makes the hard, risky choice and it pays off for them.

[@RealBradMiller]

I thought the story was lacking, but I did enjoy the first season. I also liked I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House, so maybe I shouldn't have a say. XD

[@somemortal516]

The alien thing just makes me think it's a worse version of The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals

[@vincentferrari]

Before I even watch this CHRIST HOW CAN SEASON TWO POSSIBLY BE WORSE THAN SEASON 1?

[@potatopotato5127]

I know its bad but Another Life is my gulity pleasure, I love how its constant chaos, never a dull moment.

[@Ai_Oracle]

Biggest shocked, Australia was inhabitable lol

[@samueltheprideofafrikarobi9319]

"Shoving 6 seasons worth of content into 1 season is never a good idea..." I agree with that the vast majority of the time. But I do think that it was done relatively well twice by Joss Whedon (out of necessity because he'd been canceled both times). The second season of Dollhouse and the movie Serenity.

[@culturedfrog7999]

I really wish they went into the colonizer planet/abduction story arc :(

[@ZakanaHachihaCBC]

Not sure if I should point it out or wait for Amanda to make a video for season 3 to mention that the I at the start of the title isn't capitalized.

[@biashacker]

"Blond, all that....," That needs a t-shirt. Underrated saying for sure.

[@octopusoctopus9173]

It's not good, but I don't actually want it to be cancelled. I just need more space and alien content on Netflix. I don't really like Lost In Space and even The Expanse. But it might be cancelled since it was not in the top 10 series due to bad timing for the release (right before You).

[@colebuckon3856]

Well, wha’d’ya know. Your Season 1 video is in my recommendations now, and it does indeed say “Netlfix”. I learned something new today.

[@CalvinChikelue]

So did the Akaya(?) broadcast the extinction of their species at the hands of humanity to every other alien civilization?

[@Aedeus]

I hate that I watched this, but I think it was more that all of the civilizations were under the overlordship of the Achya were released and knew what was going on via the Achyan spacetime bridging technology

[@Swell_Simps_United]

Is anyone else UwU for swell reviews of terrible Netlfix shows?? 🥺

[@JoeMenjivar]

I also marathoned season 2 right away instead of watching the new season of You. BECAUSE I'M A SUCKER.

[@winterburden]

I hope everyone is excited to order their swell plushy from makeship, it's so cute and round! 🙆‍♀️

[@erikdaniels0n]

Swell Plushie be like “that’s it, that’s my plushie”

[@LizzBowlen]

I completely forgot this show existed until I saw this vid pop up in my yt recs. I went and watched S2, then watched your vid on S1, and wondered if the writers also watched your S1 vid with all the course adjustments they made in S2 with the Team A retcons, Bernie fixes, etc. Amazing how they managed to make a number of new and equally unfortunate errors in S2 though.

[@ceceelizabeth527]

Thank you for saving me from watching another season! I somewhat liked the first one, but it's been so long that I can't remember.

[@Jeff_denHartog]

Oh look, Amanda made a review of "bootleg The Expanse" SE02

[@kushagratripathi7444]

The most shameful thing about the whole neutrino weapon deal is that neutrinos are almost completely massless, they can't be used as a weapon for anything

[@renkalan8587]

And, you know, you know what outputs an absolute *fuck ton* of neutrinos? Stars. Any spaceship that can’t handle a little neutrino radiation has no business conducting an invasion.

[@k0lpA]

I bet their science guy was like yeah neutrino weapons are dumb but they were like.. nah it sounds cool we'll keep it. Can't be worse than the cloud of dark matter that is blinding them lol

[@4amlibra]

So the Acaia (idk the spelling) are basically the brain parasites from Stephanie Meyer’s “Host”?

[@jaygandra]

They canceled The Society for this????

[@estefaniac.1011]

33:37 "How did they know that it was Earth?" Easy, they read the script 😬 Thanks for your suffering, it was highly entertaining ♥

[@amberstanding479]

Bold of you to assume that I would notice a typo in your title when I rely on Grammarly to edit my papers

[@thundergunn7203]

Make “Netlfix” tshirts please!

[@agingerbeard]

I can't stop laughing at Netlfix 😂

[@MrRorosuri]

the show sounds horrible. why are the actors so hot though 😅🤣🤣

[@thelookingglass-x]

Honestly I only clicked on this video because I basically only watched the scenes with catherine lough haggquist [on the left @ 2:10] since I have a crush on her (thank you, Motherland: Fort Salem) and so this was insightful as to what the show is actually like lmao fkdjkjfdg

[@C0C0N0T]

YES! I've been looking forward to this

[@XAutumnXFlowerX]

Not the first time I've encountered a plot with aliens offering to help "fix" the planet but somehow don't have their own planet ... Because they did such a good job with their last planet that it's gone and with all that tech miraculously pick earth instead of an empty planet. In this case I get it, they are parasites and need a host. It just seems like a lie since they somehow couldn't stay on their own planet right?

[@flamingtorchic6051]

If it makes you feel better, I have watched it 5 times and I never noticed the misspelling

[@Oobs212]

this all sounds like the plot of "the host" tbh. Parasitic alien species that infects human bodies to take over Earth.

[@porteradam77]

Hey dont knock Afterlife😁 its because of your review that I subscribed. And how you have not reviewed Warrior Nuns is beyond me😁. Keep up the great content.

[@FSEThompson]

I'm just losing my mind at the idea that the only way to slowdown the readout of a program's code is to slowdown the actual OPERATION of the program like what??? was it her programming code or a live log, bc a live log is the only thing that could explain the speed being so fast in the first place, but.... cant they just export a log of her operations during the time in question?? why is the only thing they can access an instantaneous record this feels like a very poorly designed UI for monitoring the program that RUNS YOUR SPACESHIP

[@Dontmindbb]

I’ve never seen this show. It seems that it had ok ideas but poor execution. There was just too much going on Edit: wrote this before end of video

[@pakde8002]

Season 2? Oh hell no. I would however like a prequel that explains the conditions on earth that would create the situation where a bunch of idiots are the only people available to fly a spaceship with a mission to save the earth.

[@Prizzlesticks]

...Seeing shitty sci-fi shows like this get a second, shittier season makes me relive the pain of Firefly's cancellation all over again....

[@Lastlineshow]

Thank you for saving me from watching this. On another note a possible Pallette cleanser have you seen The Expanse? It's such a good show. I need to catch up on the last 3 seasons but the first 2 were really really good. Started as a SyFy original (really big budget) then picked up by amazon. 100% recommend.

[@evapadilla8342]

"palate" cleanser. From Wikipedia: A palate cleanser is a serving of food or drink that removes food residue from the tongue allowing one to more accurately assess a new flavor.

[@LeeLee4Rock]

Just watched this entire video with absolutely zero context and it was wonderful. It sounds like a friend that’s super drunk or stoned trying to tell me about their brilliant new idea for a movie/book/show.

[@凯思]

For someone who thinks the show is outright Bad, Amanda sure gets excited about elements of it. So if the intent was to mercifully deter people from watching it, I think the message is rather mixed (which also happens be be my opinion of the show: stupid but fun).

[@kadical7531]

i like the show alot, sure them some cheesy dialouge and annoying characters, but i dont know why ppl hate on it so bad. ive watched it 3 times through.

[@fernicusmaximus9282]

I knew this would get cancelled at some point, seriously the only reason to watch this series is to pinpoint the plot holes and laugh at its stupidity. I wonder if the actors requested to be killed off especially the ones involved in the 3-way orgy and pregnancy angle. Even the Selma Blair was like I'm out lol.

[@onezerotwo]

a sci-fi show written by people with no interest or understanding of sci-fi, with computer stuff in it from people who have no idea how computers or code works, just... truly incredible

[@brianahoneybee2487]

This show is trying to hard to be the Expanse and Dark Matter. The Expanse is a 1000x better show in terms of science, characters, aliens, ect. and Dark Matter was more interesting than this show with its characters and plot.

[@zamvalis_official]

Girl... this show hurt me lol. Yet they won't greenlight another season of Altered Carbon? Dafuq.

[@IsaacIsaacIsaacson]

Ah I see, a mutineer destroys an indigenous civilization. They really repeated the real history of the Aztec empire's destruction.

[@timy.4818]

Paula straight up murdered that intelligent creature and they never talked about that as far as I know. This show was a little low budget, and the story a little confusing but it kept me interested.

[@chrisbaker8533]

There's a season 2? I'm really glad i don't keep up with t.v./movies/streaming any more.

[@Darvids0n]

I feel like going off and watching retrospectives on 90s and 00s scifi series to compare what people thought of character interactions, plot elements, believability and narrative consistency back then and the overall deterioration of quality compared to 2020s shows. Not saying you need to do some of those but I think the comparison would be very revealing

[@supreme_klon]

they stole so much from the expanse it's hilarious

[@rl318]

This show seems like it was written by a computer that was fed plot points and ideas from every other sci-fi show from the last 35 years and then pasted over a modern soap opera. Go creativity !

[@redthinks7047]

I enjoyed season 2 more than season 1. Was it good? Not great but it felt slightly more coherent than season 1

[@thomasgiles2876]

I've seen better CGI in a Dean Caine movie

[@WaxWitch]

Anthology like Star Trek? Like, one of the most popular series?

[@deveus1]

At some point during this explanation, I started to feel like I was hallucinating or high or something. My brain just melted down. And I want to be clear that this is not due to your explanation but the insane ass story

[@jodic4823]

This explanation just makes me wish I was rewatching Battlestar Galactica

[@bookshelfhoney]

I was like oh, yeah I remember her review of season 1 from last year was so funny! Can't wait. Then she said when that actually happened and..woah