I reviewed the first season of "Upright" back in January of 2020. I said that I enjoyed it and liked that it didn't outstay it's or push too hard against the barriers of realism. I'd say that I liked this second season two, but I would say that it touches on the same sort of areas that the first run did and maybe it's harder to argue that this isn't a touch redundant.
Three years later, Lucky (Tim Minchin) is struggling with his alcohol intake, whilst maintaining a relationship with Avery (Jessie McNamee) and trying to arrange to see Billie (Asmara Feik) who still doesn't know that he is her biological father. At a particularly low ebb, Meg (Milly Alcock) shows up out of the blue and asks him to join her on a quest to find her mother, ostensibly to tell her about her brothers passing. Though a visit from Billie is days away, Lucky agrees.
So, it's a second road trip for the pair (although slightly more air travel this time) whilst they reconnect, as they've not seen each other since the went their separate ways three years previous. They track her mother's feint trail through various locations that happen to have been places were Lucky has previously lived and, departed in less than glorious circumstances. The spark between Minchin and Allcock comes back almost immediately though, and their banter is good. The first season was certainly a dramedy but this run seems to dial up the emotion even further and I'm not ashamed to admit that I was crying during the final episode.
As I said though, it's basically a redux of the first plot of the first season, a slightly unbelievable journey of pain and discovery, and there's some similar stretches to credibility when it comes to people bumping back into each other. Whilst I'd say that this season was inferior to the first, I still argue that it was good, with moments of real emotion and some great performances. Not sure I need any more though, unless the characters are going to develop.