My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2: Worth the Wait — Except for the Central Love Triangle

Almost two years after Jackie booked that flight back to New York, My Life With the Walter Boys is finally back.

My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 is mostly worth the long wait, though the massive gap between seasons made it harder to follow than it should have been.

However, I have some serious issues with the love triangle, which is one of the defining aspects of this series — or at least, with how the series handled it this season.

The Core Of My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 Is Jackie’s New Quest for Belonging

While Jackie was first getting her bearings in Silver Springs during My Life With The Walter Boys Season 1, this season moves beyond that — and that’s the best thing about it.

Jackie is incredibly relatable when she’s not trying to decide between Alex and Cole.

Grace: Maybe you should pick a boy. I wish the worst problem in my life was which hot guy likes me best.

Throughout the season, Jackie grows from a wannabe leader who gets nowhere running for student body president (and isn’t even sure she wants to!) to receiving an award for her efforts in organizing a college fair for the juniors, and Erin even promises her a VP position on the student council.

I love stories about characters finding their authentic voices.

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It’s central to everything I write and watch, and I was thrilled that Jackie began to discover who she was and how much power her voice actually had.

The best parts of the love triangle involved Jackie being Jackie.

She encouraged Alex at the rodeo and offered to help Cole get into college because she wanted to help, not because it would make either of the guys like her better.

That made her a compelling character regardless of which guy she ultimately ended up with.

The Love Triangle Was More Central, Yet Completely Underwhelming

Jackie’s inability to decide between Cole and Alex has always been central to My Life With The Walter Boys.

The pressure to decide was so great that Jackie ran away to New York at the end of Season 1.

However, in My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2, it was too prominent, yet not nearly as compelling as it was in the first season.

For the first half of the season, it was clear that the series wanted the audience to root for Jackie and Alex to get back together, yet Alex was so obnoxious that it was hard to understand why anyone — least of all Jackie — would want that.

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I get that these kids are all teenagers, so emotions and reactions are magnified by 1000%.

However, Alex was too angry for the first six episodes to the point that it became obnoxious.

He was beyond rude to Jackie every time he saw her, as if the silent treatment wasn’t enough of a punishment.

And if that wasn’t bad enough, he had more chemistry with Blake than with Jackie. However, that relationship lasted all of 2 episodes before they parted as friends, with Blake occasionally giving Jackie dirty looks while helping Alex achieve his rodeo dreams.

Of course, Blake seemed a lot older than Alex and was his trainer, so that relationship was all sorts of inappropriate anyway — but it still was more compelling than Jackie vs. Angry Alex.

Nothing much seemed to be happening with Jackie and Cole during those episodes, either.

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And when Alex and Jackie finally got together, it wasn’t much better.

For some reason, they decided to keep their relationship secret — probably so that Cole could find out at the end of Episode 9.

Love triangles are a typical feature of teen drama, but the pacing was off. Episodes 7 – 9 all ended with Jackie and Alex kissing, and until Episode 9, Cole didn’t seem to know or care what was going on

The Blowup at the End of the Season Wasn’t Really Earned

Cole reached his boiling point after nine episodes of focusing on coaching football and his future.

But after he found out about Alex and Jackie, he avoided her for an entire episode before she admitted that he was the one she really loved. Then George’s medical emergency interrupted Alex’s overhearing of this conversation.

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This needed more buildup to avoid feeling like a cliffhanger for the sake of having one.

The Strongest Aspects of My Life with the Walter Boys Season 2 Were the Subplots

The love triangle is supposed to be central, but one of the things I loved about the first season was the family drama aspect.

There wasn’t as much of that in the new season, sadly.

Several of the kids were little more than background actors (e.g., Parker, who virtually disappeared after expressing her disappointment that Jackie had left in the first place).

That said, the family drama that we did get was strong. I especially liked the subplot about Will and George butting heads over how to save the ranch.

My Life with the Walter Brothers handles this story far better than the similar one on Yellowstone Season 5. Although I’d have liked the conflict between Will and George to escalate more before George nixed the new project. Richard’s inclusion was ill-prepared regarding the plot.

He went from the mostly-absent uncle who was too busy to spend time with Jackie in New York to a business partner who was determined to be closer to his niece.

Similarly, I would have liked a more consistent throughline about Jackie’s struggle to reconcile her love for her late parents with her new life in Silver Falls.

The story around giving away her mother’s dresses was strong, as was her grief during and after Halloween, but it wasn’t clear throughout the entire season that she was struggling with this.

That’s a shame, because that conflict will always be at the emotional core of Jackie’s life.

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Losing her parents so abruptly in a car accident turned her life upside down, and it isn’t something she will ever fully get over.

Cole and Alex Both Had Strong Coming-Of-Age Stories Outside of the Love Triangle

Cole spent most of the season trying hard to get over his anger over not playing football and his former bad-boy ways.

Coaching wasn’t as fulfilling as he pretended, and he was having a hard time figuring out what was next for him, given his academic and behavioral record, which was a far more compelling story than his love life.

I especially liked his rivalry with Dylan, although I’d like to know why alcohol was available at the fall formal, considering it was a high school event.

I was also glad that Cole did the right thing by refusing to help Dylan fake his drug test results.

Dylan was getting on my last nerve with blaming Cole for his punishment. Thankfully, he came to his senses after Kylie castigated him!

Alex’s story was also compelling, mostly because of Katherine’s fear that he’d get seriously hurt.

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The rodeo was suspenseful for that reason. I didn’t think that Alex would have any life-threatening injuries, especially since he’d already risked his life going into the barn during the fire.

Still, that moment when he fell was seriously scary, for all the right reasons.

Lassoing Up a Few Final Thoughts

• Nathan’s love life could have been a stronger story. The triangle with Zach and Skylar was intriguing, but it ended abruptly and unexpectedly with Zach using Nathan to make Skylar jealous. Ugh!
• One problem I can blame on the long gap between seasons is not fully remembering everything from Season 1. Erin suddenly being friends with Jackie instead of her worst enemy was confusing, but I’ll have to rewatch the end of Season 1 to see if I’d forgotten this.
• It felt like the series was in a rush to get Jackie back to the ranch. I missed how Katherine convinced her — it seemed like she went from being adamant about going to Vermont to suddenly showing up in Colorado.
• The dating pool in Silver Springs is way too small. It seemed like everyone was dating someone else’s ex.

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My Life With The Walter Boys Season 2 premiered on Netflix on August 28, 2025. Both seasons are available on the streamer, and the series has already been renewed for a third season.

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