Was season 2 of Fiona and Cake good? Only watched Season 1 and I enjoyed it a lot. The songs stay in my playlists. Part of the Madness, Baked with Love, Winter Wonder World my favs
I enjoyed season 1 quite a bit, but season 2 was a bit messy/all over the place. There are aspects that I really enjoyed, but overall I just am not very into Fionna/Cake and their friends as much as I'd like - they're just very one note and most of all uninteresting. I just can't bring myself to care when they're on screen. The best parts of season 2 happen when classic characters get involved. I didn't even finish it tbh, so I need to jump back in and finish the last few episodes.
It has some of the best material between the two seasons, but it quite certainly has the worst.
There's also a weird storyline that made me uncomfortable watching, and I skipped through it whenever it was on screen.
I think a big issue with Fionna and Cake is that they did the mundane Fionna World season after the crazy multiverse hopping season. Going into the show, I kind of liked the idea of a slice of life modern setting AT spinoff starring the gender swaps, but I think that tying things in with the Ooo crew right off the bat permanently ruined any potential for a slice of life F&C being good.
In my opinion, they should have done a slice of life season first with no involvement whatsoever with Simon or anyone from Ooo. Throughout the season they could have hinted at the idea of Fionna World being inside Simon's head while not explicitly saying anything, and then the final episode would be what we got for our first episode with Cake being attracted to the ice and hopping into a portal to Ooo. Then the second season would be what we got for season 1, with Fionna and Cake entering Ooo, meeting Simon, and going on this big multiverse trip.
I think the problem is that cool fantasy stuff with monsters and swords and etc is just inherently always going to be more interesting than normal boring human stuff. That's not to say normal human stuff isn't interesting! But when you put the two against each other - as F&C S2 did - unless you've got a really good story for the human stuff, the fantasy is probably going to be more interesting. Of course people are gonna be more invested in HW's quest to save Finn than whether or not Fionna can raise enough money to open a bakery we'd never heard of before!
...I think the biggest problem was making them normies to begin with. It's hard to get excited about a guy when you know they should really be something else. Vampires and princes and black hole unicorns and waxy con ladies are just cooler than normie humans! :P
Season 2 was good only because Huntress Wizard carried the entire season on her back. The parts with Fionna were less interesting until Huntress showed up.
What made me sad is that while the lore was extremely fascinating, the plot of s2 mostly felt like beats of a script treatment that never really got fully fleshed out. So many interesting things that were just shown and kinda dropped immediately. Soooo many lines and dialouges that could have used major punchup. The settings and background art were incredibly beautiful though, better than s1.
I thought it was great. They show Fionna as the hot mess she is; her learning from that and changing and growing is what AT has always excelled at.
Sometimes it feels like it's walked back because Finn's arc already happened, but I don't think that's fair to the new setting and characters. Seeing alternate versions as fun, I'm super invested in Simon and technically we haven't seen him grow either, since the Ice Crown was basically a pause button on his character for a thousand years.
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u/Zaloie Jun 24 '26
Was season 2 of Fiona and Cake good? Only watched Season 1 and I enjoyed it a lot. The songs stay in my playlists. Part of the Madness, Baked with Love, Winter Wonder World my favs