Impressions: The Secret of Skinwalker Ranch - Season 2, Episode 2

I don't have too much to add to my previous comments regarding Episode 1 of Skinwalker Ranch Season 2. I think a lot of my criticism still applies, however I did see a upward trend of improvement towards the back half of the second episode. The show really seems to be establishing that, presumably due to the complete randomness of the events, the experiments and investigations will be similarly jumbled. For instance, we seem to have completely dropped the previous episode's investigation of the disappearing water mystery, however, we're introduced to what is clearly a set of glyphs carved into a rock on the mesa as well as the continuing investigation of last season's mysterious cow death.

Like I said, it's pretty clear that the glyphs are carved into a rock using some sort of tool. They bring on an expert to analyze them, and he concludes that they portray some sort of portal. Hmm. Playing into the lore of the area, perhaps? I found Travis Taylor's theory of the crack in the rock representing the mesa and the carvings being celestial bodies much more convincing.

Also convincing was the investigation surrounding the dead cattle. The expert they bring on seemed very credible and expressed genuine confusion as to how the cow had died and why its carcass was still around over a year later. Again, there are a lot of variables with this cow that could have been influenced by the show's production; but if we take it at face value, it is rather curious.

I quite like the idea of a team of investigators jumping around from place to place looking at different incidents. Look, they're never going to find any hard answers out there, so might as well just have fun with it instead of trying to artificially structure the events to have some sort of flow. This change has helped the interactions feel a bit more genuine. I hope this trend continues, the show could come into its own very soon.