Good Morning, Veronica, a Brazilian Netflix original from a couple of years ago, was a surprise in some ways. While it masqueraded as your usual crime thriller, with a sad-sack protagonist with a troubled past investigating seemingly parallel cases that eventually became interlinked, it was sneakily an incredibly taut and believable exploration of the violence – particularly perpetrated in the home – that men commit against women. But what also happened as the season went on is the plot became more mired in a grander conspiracy, a fairly obligatory-feeling mafia plot that eventually overwhelmed it, and it’s within this plot that the second season of the show picks things up. Veronica, our intrepid former police clerk, is deeply embedded in an organised crime investigation. To its credit, Good Morning, Veronica: Season 2 does continue to dabble in themes of manipulation and abuse, though admittedly of a glossier, more sensationalised variety focusing primarily on a villain that is much more arch. While Veronica’s backstory formed a rather tantalising supplementary mystery in the first season, it was really the peril that Janete found herself in that kept viewers invested; more to the point, it was also what kept Veronica, damaged as she was, tethered to the case. Bigger isn’t necessarily better, there’s a sense of scale to the plot in Season 2 that doesn’t suit it; it never manages to build the kind of white-knuckle tension that the first outing could deliver with regularity.