If you were a fan of the original Gold Rush then you'll really like season 1. Season 2 brings us full circle to the same stuff that they did before they had to leave Gold Rush, the same stupid mistakes, thinking they are a "big" operation and just being dumb. Aside from Todd's stupid beard, you now have to tolerate his spoiled brat son who thinks he's a mogul because he had a couple summers digging gold with his dad and now has a crappy and overpriced clothing line. He drags this show down, every scene with him (especially with his ubiquitous toothpick in his mouth) will make you cringe. The toothpick thing is an obvious attempt by the twit to create some kind of "persona", between that and wearing his own clothing line for free advertising and dying his hair he's really too caught up in his own sense of celebrity and it grates. I went from thinking in season 1 that "hey, maybe the Hoffmans are humbled now and will make this work" to realizing in season 2 that they have not and will just fail again. Todd still thinks he's king of gold mines when he's really done nothing but fail from the very beginning. I always find entertainment in these Gold Rush shows, it's interesting to watch them gerry rig their machines to get through tough patches, but I can do without all the made-up drama and the douchebag brat son.