The alien thing was kind of silly in season 2 but it was still the best season imo. Best build up to the final showdown. More suspense. Peggy and Ed realizing Dodd had escaped was one of the great moments of television this decade. Too many great characters to count. Mike Milligan (black KC mobster, which will be the focus on season 4), Hanzee, Nick Offerman as the town lawyer and drunk, Ted Danson. Several good subplots, none of which were excessive or overdone, all with ties to the ending.

"...the successful annihilation of organized crime's subculture in America would rock the 'legitimate' world's foundation, which would ultimately force fundamental social changes and redistributions of wealth and power in this country. Meyer Lansky's dream was to bond the two worlds together so that one could not survive without the other." - Dan E. Moldea