Stoked (season 2)

Plot
Six teenagers come to Sunset Beach for a summer's worth of surfing. However, they get more than they bargained for when they deal with a bad boss and the Seniors [groms].

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Many characters were flanderized to an unredeemable amount.
 * 2) The Reef-Lo Relationship came out of nowhere and is dragged on throughout the season until "Grom Fest". Even Lo is more abusive than Fin in the relationship. One example is in "Sweet, Sweet, Meat Cheat", where she threatens to dump Reef if he does not become a vegetarian like her.
 * 3) Too much gross-out humor.
 * 4) It gets mean-spirited at times, with one instance being the scene in which Emma loses her bikini and passing surfers laugh and whistle at her in the middle of the ocean.
 * 5) The episode "Groms on Strike" is arguably the worst in the show's history, with Bummer being even lower than before and the groms being tortured by guests and staff, some of whom they were friends with!
 * 6) In actual fact all of the final four episodes of this season are terrible, with massive flanderisation and all being torture episodes for certain characters.
 * 7) Several plot holes throughout the season. For example, Emma wants to take down Fin in "Dirty Little Secret, Nerdy Little Secrets" in the upcoming grom fest. Yet, in the namesake finale, Emma does not want to be 50th (out of 50, which is dead last). Also, Emma was happy to place 49th behind Kaylie (who ended up getting 50th place).
 * 8) Kahuna is either wasted, unfunny or funny at the wrong time. For example, he tells jokes during the potentially deadly hurricane in Clinging in the Rain and does not empathise with the Groms' situation in Groms on Strike, instead talking about himself.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Some characters were not impacted by the flanderization than they were in the first season.
 * 2) Some episode ideas were original to the season.
 * 3) Some heartwarming moments.
 * 4) Fin managed to win Grom Fest in the girls' division, while Broseph takes down Reef in the boys' division.
 * 5) Reef and Fin kiss at the end, after Reef managed to diss her in the Grom Fest by saying she has a big butt.

Trivia

 * While the second season was first shown in Canada, Australia was the first country to air the true series finale "Grom Fest". This was almost two years before Canada aired the finale, marking the end of "Stoked".

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