Raising Dion Season 2 Review: Little Superheroes Grow Up Enhanced Growth, The Evolution Of Relationships

Starring: Alisha Wainwright, Ja’Siah Young, Jason Ritter

Creators: Carol Barbee

Streaming Platform: Netflix (click to watch)

Filmyhype.com Ratings: 3.5/5 (three and half star) [yasr_overall_rating size=”large”]

Little Dion grows up and we grow up with him in this review of Raising Dion Season 2, the second season of the cinecomic on the little superhero from February 1st on Netflix. A series that had proved suitable for all ages and that returns with two years spent in the story told as well as in reality, with the protagonist grown up and ready to face new challenges, in everyday life as well as in the super reality in which he found himself catapulted.

Raising Dion Season 2 Review: The Story

After the inaugural cycle based on the origin story, like any self-respecting superhero, this second season focuses on growing up, on the coming-of-age novel of Dion (Ja’Siah Young), who is now ten years old and has learned to control more own extraordinary powers. He still has to do a lot of practice and in this they help BIONA, he has grown up but he is still a child, despite having seen death in the face, and this makes single mother Nicole proud and worries (Alisha Wainwright), a young widow helped to raise him by his sister Kat. The life of all the characters went on, not only for Dion and his Triangle of Justice (formed with friends Esperanza and Jonathan, the only children to know his secret) but also for Nicole herself, now established graphics and busy.

The young woman also holds a prominent role at BIONA, speaking on behalf of the Augments’ families and helping the Augments in the “transition” and understanding their powers as she tries to do it herself with her child. The already precarious equilibrium reached by the protagonists is definitively unhinged with the arrival in the city of two old acquaintances. On the one hand, Brayden (Griffin Robert Faulkner), the orphaned child seen in the last season finale, possessed by the Crooked Man after Pat’s death (Jason Ritter) and ready to take revenge on Dion “for taking everything away from him”, the new villain of the season. The other surprise return is that of Pat – fans of the actor will be happy – in a new form and in search of redemption. Has it really changed? His relationship with Dion is reminiscent of that of Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker (cited several times on the show) and other complicated relationships between mentor and student that have then followed opposite paths.

Raising Dion Season 2 Review and Analysis

We must never forget that the peculiarity of this television cinecomic is contained right down to the original title. It is not simply called “Dion” “raising Dion“ because it is the story of both the discovery of his place in the world of the little great protagonist, as well as the very important role of his mother Nicole in his life. Dion talks about accepting himself and others – like his disabled friend, Esperanza, who will face new challenges this season thanks to the school musical, or Dion’s being black himself – how about who this mini-superhero with powers extraordinary has the task of raising it. If parenting is the hardest job in the world, as a true superhero, it is even more so if your child has enormous powers within him, inherited from your late husband who hadn’t told you anything. Their relationship will mature in these new episodes and, even if between narrative ups and downs as in the first cycle, it will prove to be an original and soulful entertainment for the public.

And it is precisely in mirror of the relationship between Nicole and Dion that we will see another one this season, through Janelle, an Augmented girl who arrived at the BLONDE along with her mother to try to understand and control her own power (to blow things up, actually separate the molecules of the surrounding matter). The mother is terrified of her daughter’s abilities and cannot accept them, also due to her lack of inclination for science compared to her grandfather who had taken his granddaughter to Iceland to see the Northern Lights (doesn’t it remind you of Ghostbusters: Legacy?).

Janelle and her mother will have to learn to understand each other, with the help of Nicole and Dion and the other characters, including Tevin (Rome Flynn), an Empowered new mentor to the young protagonist and who may also have a special interest in his mother. Nicole’s storyline travels even more parallel to that of Dion in this second cycle of episodes, showing the phase following the awareness of mourning, trying to move forward and look to the future instead of the past. Just as we spectators will try to do after a finale that is once again full of twists and turns once again… up to the post credits scene, now a classic of cinecomics.

Raising Dion 2 Review: The Last Words

We conclude our review of Dion 2 happy that the series has maintained its own peculiar identity as the origin story of the little protagonist and at the same time that of his mother Nicole who has the difficult task of raising him. This second season talks about personal and Enhanced growth, the evolution of relationships, what comes after the acceptance of mourning, even between narrative ups and downs.