Having now seen the second season, I understand the playful frustration: This is Alyssa’s story now. Season 1 heavily focused on the dynamic between these two lonely misfits, but season 2 isn’t a love story — it’s a survival one. The show picks up two years after the events of the first season, and a lot has changed. We’ve all clocked the wedding dress in the posters and the teaser trailer , but knowing our British Bonnie and Clyde, there’s a lot more to the story. All Barden will say is that Alyssa channels her feelings from the events of season 1 into something “really relatable,” something familiar to anyone who remembers being young and needing validation, and finding it in the wrong place.