So I'm late to watching the rest of season 2 as we had stopped mid way through months ago and just finished binging the last half of the season. As someone who has not read the books and doesn't know shit about this story other than what I've read in this thread, the show has been a frustrating mess. I understand the business of show maling forces compromises, but I would have preferred a story with more depth for the characters than what we got. A lot of shit doesn't really make sense and the whole girl power stuff is, at this point and IMO, a bit overdone by Hollywood.
That said the 2nd half of season 2 started to tie the story together with better pacing.
Vincent Price said that a story is only as good as it's villian(s). The dark fiends (Ishamael, Lanfear and the others we haven't really met yet) seem to have some depth and complexity to them.