I've seen that sentiment in a couple of places, and the answer is fairly simple: The first season gave us a show about a heterogeneous team of hackers (plenty o

I've seen that sentiment in a couple of places, and the answer is fairly simple: The first season gave us a show about a heterogeneous team of hackers (plenty of ages, both males and females, different personalities, etc.) trying to "fight the man", so to speak. The hacking, portrayed as fairly realistic, especially for people used to Hollywood craziness, and the fight (against financial institutions) pulled quite a lot of people. Then, fairly suddenly, you get hit with a mental illness angle. A lot of people didn't ask for it, and don't really welcome it. It's not just a show about hacking now. It's a show about a very mentally ill man with a particular set of baggage trying to cope with it, while being part/the leader of a very notorious hack team. So yeah, if you really like the first season, you might not like the second one much. At least so far.