1670 Season 2 Review
Director: Maciej Buchwald and Kordian Kądziela
Date Created: 2025-09-18 02:06
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1670 Season 2 Review: Netflix’s second season of the eccentric Polish village-turned-growing city responds to just that, bringing back Adamczycha, a fictional Polish village where absurdity and ambition collide. With a stellar cast including Bartłomiej Topa, Katarzyna Herman, Martyna Byczkowska, Michał Sikorski, Dobromir Dymecki, Andrzej Kłak, Kirył Pietruczuk, Filip Zaręba, Michał Balicki, Jędrzej Hycnar and others, the series maintains its thin line between satire and plain lunacy. The second season, which comprises eight episodes, takes place after Jan Pawel Adamczewski finally assumes the role of master over his estate, though as one might guess, it’s a short-lived victory.
The Polish series 1670 is a historical satirical comedy that doesn’t care if it isn’t true, and that’s exactly why it works so well. The first season was about the story of Jan’s insatiable quest for power and recognition; in Season 2, that ambition ventures much stranger places involving demonic possessions, betrayals, festivals and a fourth-wall-cracking acknowledgement of the characters’ own existence.
1670 Season 2 Review
Netflix’s 1670 Season 2 continues to give nary a care about logic or reality, but rather it thrives on absurdity. It’s funny and it’s infuriating to watch Jan lose, essentially, everything by striving to play at being the greatest nobleman in Adamczycha. Which is his being thrust into absurdity after absurdity, spearheaded be it hosting a Harvest Festival, experiencing betrayal by his own son or suffering the devilry of Bogdan, and is as he makes the show its own thing.
The series also shines when it focuses on Aniela’s storyline. She is quick and smart-witted, with a sense of duty that far surpasses her brothers’. Season 2 finally sees her taking on a worthwhile role in administering and maintaining the estate. The conflict between love and duty in her case adds an emotional depth to the otherwise screwball comedy. And the difference with Jan, a character haunted by ambitious-to-the-point-of-ruinous desire from the very end of Episode 1, means that we’re seeing Aniela grapple with what it’s really like to want personal happiness and responsibility to come into balance.
I liked how Season 2 of 1670 broke the fourth wall in a weird but inventive way. One of those “what just happened?” moments was the characters’ realising they could very well be not real: moments only this show would get away with. It was a reminder that the series doesn’t want us to take anything seriously, not even it being a thing at all. That sort of self-awareness makes it memorable, even if not every joke lands.
While I like the camp, there were times when it started to get old and worn out. Some scenes, notably those about Bogdan’s demonic subplot, dragged on and lost their whimsy halfway through. The supernatural twist caught me by surprise at first, but after a while, it felt like the writers were just piling things into a cup of coffee heaven without any sense of direction.
Another issue is that the satire gets lost in the shuffle at times. The first season was a bit more acerbic about greed, power and class distinctions. In Season 2, it keeps changing the subject from Valerio’s possession, the Harvest Festival, and fake documents about nobility, so frequently that it becomes diluted as satire. Yes, it’s still funny. But doesn’t bite quite so fiercely as it did at first.
The mid-episodes also somewhat fall victim to pacing. As strong in the beginning and end as it was stretched out in between, almost as if the creators didn’t know how to find a balance of comedy with a point. At other times, I was wishing the story would just get on with it instead of making me chuckle at another flabby, over-dramatised argument between Jan and Andrzej.
The cast deserves full marks, though, for carrying off the madness. Bartłomiej Topa scores again as Jan, a character who is comically absurd yet oddly sympathetic. He can act so sincerely in such ridiculous situations — it’s that, above all, which sells the comedy. For me, this season’s standout is Martyna Byczkowska as Aniela; the scenes involving her add a much-welcome heart to the proceedings.
Visually, the series retains its rustic appeal. The costumes and scenes plunge you into a 17th-century Polish village, although the humour is quite modern. The juxtaposition between setting and wacky comedy remains one of the series’ best draws.
Netflix 1670 Season 2 Review: Summing Up
Overall, Polish series 1670 Season 2 is not bad, but flawed. It’s a bold follow-up, an absurdity doubled down on, and if you enjoyed the first season, you’ll probably laugh plenty here. But if you came in looking for more concise storytelling or blistering satire, you might leave with a mild addiction. The charms of the season were strong enough for me to keep watching, though not consistently enough for it to be great. You hit the jokes right sometimes, you don’t others. Some of the storyline’s shine; others are superfluous. Still, I appreciated its daring; there aren’t a lot of shows that feel brave enough to be this weird, and that has value in and of itself.
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