-- Season 2 offers a chance to fix any mistakes

https://variety.com/2019/tv/news/the-masked-singer-season-two-1203348269/

The Fox reality show returns tonight after producers had a "good postmortem" on what worked and what didn't in the successful Season 1. So this season will focus on building narrative arcs for each contestant throughout the season and building the rapport among Nick Cannon and the four judges Ken Jeong, Nicole Scherzinger, Jenny McCarthy and Robin Thicke, says Fox alternative-programming chief Rob Wade. “I think the judges themselves and Nick become more of an ensemble. If you look at the first season, we were sticking five people in a room together who didn’t know each other,” says Wade. “To create a chemistry is very difficult from the word go. Now they are thick as thieves, if you watch the first couple shows you’re going to notice how naturally that ensemble acts together now, it’s a natural improvement in the show.”

I won't be watching, I can't stomach any more of Jenny McCarthy and Ken Jeong. :rolleyes:

Ed.

I like the other judges, but am not a fan of Jenny McCarthy.

The Masked Singer is as close to pure escapism as you’re going to see on American TV at the moment (https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/the-masked-singer-season-2-review.html)

It makes sense that the hit Fox reality show is an import, says Matt Zoller Seitz. "It’s hard to imagine Americans coming up with a series where musical performers (some professionals, some talented amateurs) sing and dance their hearts out while clad in outfits that would look equally at home in an old Saturday-morning kids’ series, a mid-century Japanese kaiju flick, or a vaguely hellish theme park: a sparkly gold lion; an adorable unicorn; a hippo with the blocky shape of a 1980s video-game character; a white rabbit with a steampunk-gilded body suit and glowing red eyes. And if Americans were to come up with such a series on their own, the execution wouldn’t be as poker-faced as it is here. The Masked Singer is marketed as an elimination-based competition show in the mold of American Idol and The Voice, and it is that. But it also inhabits a hyperspecific game-show niche that includes Identity, To Tell the Truth, What’s My Line?, and I’ve Got a Secret, while coating the guessing-game format with a layer of psychedelic expressionism."

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The Masked Singer has the kind of cultural ubiquity rarely seen within a fractured television landscape (https://www.theringer.com/tv/2019/9/26/20885410/masked-singer-season-2-premiere)
The Masked Singer's four-time Emmy-winning costume designer Marina Toybina breaks down all 16 new looks (https://www.vulture.com/2019/09/the-masked-singer-season-2-costumes.html)