They should've just made this a movie. It hasn't got enough interest to hold a series. Since the first series finished with so, so many loose ends, I can only imagine they're going to try and milk a second out of it. If they do, I hope they get a better sound artist. The sound is so bad it seriously detracts from the story and just becomes distracting. Swishing water around in a jug does not make the same sound as a person taking a swig of a beer, and since they drink so much in the show it's a real irritation. It's the worst sound of any show I can remember.
It seemed like they were trying to do something gritty, but it's not gritty, it's just silly, and pretentious. Is it supposed to be what 50's hot rod gangs could've been like if they had cell phones? The timeline is all over the shop, they're all veterans of the conflict on "the Archipelago", but they're all way too young to have served in the Pacific. The shows in the few shots of a tv set suggest late 60's or early 70's, but they all have mobile phones. I know that there are plenty of folk that like to get frocked up in rockabilly garb for a festival, or car show but this portrays the whole mid west US like it's stuck in a time warp. The motels, diners, bowling rinks, are all retrofit, and the cars all have a rusty patina, suggesting a time gone by. About the only thing in the series with a fresh coat of paint is the Pinup's fingernails.
Why are they so fearful of the impending gang war? They give their main rivals a straight flogging early in the series, then these battle hardened veterans are worried about going to war with the gang they just flogged? The big Chief's daughter has a shootout in the opposition's clubhouse, and not one of the gang members bother to see what all the gunshots are about whilst she rides off on one of their owns' bike? Then the 2IC's daughter gets taken and it takes just 3 blokes go in and wipe out the entire clan? It's hardly the battle of the century. All they'd have had to do is kick back for 3 hours, that kid and her bloody annoying stories would get handed back in no time.
Cut in loads of flashy, yet senseless flashbacks and tangential sub-plots that don't go anywhere, obligatory shots of people racking weapons and spinning revolver barrels(once where she even spins it twice, just to be sure), and set it to a soundtrack, and there you have it. It's like they wanted to expand on a high school essay.
Having said that the soundtrack is about the best part of the show. The selection of very obscure, old tracks adds to the feeling of nostalgia, albeit for a time that never existed. If you like your rockabilly, hot rods and hipsters you might like it, but it's really just another teen fantasy soap opera, only with hotrodders, that more look like a barbers convention, instead of the fairy's, dragons, vampires, cartoon characters, or superheroes of recent years.