I wanted to create a separate topic as the US is about two weeks behind our friends in Canada in the airing of episodes.
I just wanted the first two episodes and feel like the show took a sharp turn from where season 1 ended. I feel like it lost traction.
Escher was shaping up to be quite the bad guy before he was iced. The Freelancers were also shaping up to be a significant force too that was starting to change the dynamic of the show into something more but they appear to be gone and worse, Kiera is now one of them.
And to your point, I think the show has "jumped the shark" versus doing a good mid-show "reboot". ...but there will be a new bad guy, he's in the making...