In the three years since the first season of Arcane, I’d forgotten a lot of the little plot details — what exactly was Shimmer? Why is hextech such a big deal? What’s up with Mel’s mom?

But the brilliance of Arcane is that you actually don’t need to remember all of the specific plot minutiae for it to work. Sure, there’s a whole wide world, vaster than even just Piltover and Zaun. And yet, all of the grander themes and questions come right back down to Jinx and Vi. Even when Arcane starts to posit loftier questions (like Viktor’s whole hextech Jesus arc) or gets into specific political machinations of Piltover, Zaun, and the lands beyond, the sisters anchor the entire show.

[Ed. note: This post contains spoilers for Arcane season 2.]

It’s especially evident in this last drop of episodes, which brings the sisters together — and working for a common cause for the first time in years. After Jinx learns what happened to their adoptive father, she searches........

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