This season was crazy, certainly crazier and more far-fetched than season one, but at least the finale didn't make me as angry as last year's.
A lot did happen this season. Baby Mateo went from being a newborn to a newly walking one-year-old, still as cute as a button. There is the difficult area of shared custody between Jane (Gina Rodriguez) and Rafael (Justin Baldoni). Poor baby spends half his time with Jane and the rest with Rafael, which is just awful. I don't like the shared custody while I understand why they came to that decision, but it is horribly unfair to the baby, never getting used to a familiar touch.
Petra (Yael Grobglas) also had heard twins, and managed to deliver them naturally but after that, she wanted nothing to do with them. She suffers from post-partum depression and barely even holds them, leaving the dirty work to the two nannies. Though Rafael does love them, Mateo is still number one, over Anna and Elsa (and no, it is not because of the film Frozen). And that rightfully saddens Petra.
Jane's love life is still interesting. Though she and Michael (Brett Dier) part ways as the Sin Rostro and Mutter case nearly takes over his life, and Rafael meddled too much and cost Michael his job, they nevertheless marry in the season finale though Rafael is still in love with her. But Jane and Michael are happy and that is all that matters. The wedding is lovely. This is only after Jane dates a skater guy and nearly loses her virginity to her divorced advisor (Adam Rodriguez). But I am glad that she ended up with Michael in the end, though I still will forever remember the fight he and Rafael got in that ended with tiny Mateo being injured. But Jane should have gotten the baby out of there sooner.
Now, Jane and her mother Xiomara (Andrea Navedo) also get into a huge fight because she thought that it would be a good idea to get Jane a stripper and have him show up at her work, where she is a TA. Yeah, that was a horrible idea. Of course they mend fences. Xiomara is also briefly engaged to Rogelio (Jaime Camil) only to end it because he wants children. Ironically, Xiomara is the one holding a positive pregnancy test at the end of the season, though how she can be pregnant only one week after sleeping with Rogelio's nemesis is beyond me. Whatever.
Now comes the plot I don't like. They give Petra a twin sister, Anezka. It is awkward and ridiculous not to mention unnecessary. And the season finale only makes me hate it more. Anezka shoots Petra with a paralyzing drug putting her in a coma-like state, where she is aware of everything. Only Anezka disguises herself as Petra and becomes Petra herself. Yikes, messy and complicated.
Though I still like this show as there is nothing else like it on TV, this season wasn't nearly as good as last season. Jane is no longer my favorite character on TV, though I don't know who exactly took her place. That being said, she is still a good character, strong and fully developed but I just don't understand her decisions as much. Rafael is still one of my least favorite characters and though he is not over Jane and probably never will be, he still has sex with Anezka, a bad decision. Michael did gain some ground back and I do hope he survives into next season as he was shot on his wedding night. So that happened too, just as Jane was changing into a sexy nightgown.
Well, with everything that happened next season will be interesting. Grade: B+
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