When the folks out at Lions Gate sent over a copy of Meet The Browns Season Two, I have to admit, I was looking forward to it. This was by itself a strange new feeling for me: looking forward to watching anything Tyler Perry had to offer was a wholly new experience. But would I be disappointed? Would Perry’s oeuvre of heavy-handed pretentious crap come back to bite me by giving me a taste of the good life and then yanking it away like the tablecloth under a stack of crystal glassware?

Meet The Browns takes us back to Brown Meadows, where Leroy Brown, his doctor nephew and his nurse niece in law, are doing their best to keep up the newest retirement home in town. And while the home is packed with some of the strangest old folks you’ll ever hope to meet, the sheer amount of strangeness that the Browns and company will take on is going to mystify anyone who watches, including us.

There will be some substantial differences between the first season and the second. And I found this one didn’t have so many big laughs as the previous one, but it did still have a decent number of them. Admittedly, I was starting to get a bit concerned when the first fifteen minutes of an episode and no laughs, but thankfully, it didn’t take long for the laughs to kick back up.

It’s never a good idea to start a whole season off on a weak note, and that’s just what happens here. However, it recovers quickly, and gets us back to the laughs, which is not only where this series has proven amply that it can be, but where history has shown that it’s the best. It’s sad to say that the second season isn’t as good as the first, but it is comparable, and at the end of the day, that’s pretty good indeed. It’s still a delight, for the most part, even if it’s a bit less of a delight than it was previously.

And frankly, this never fails to amaze me. I am actively enjoying a Tyler Perry title. That’s weird. It has never happened to me before. But here it is, I’m laughing along happily with Meet The Browns. It’s the best thing I’ve seen Tyler Perry do, and frankly, I wish he’d do more like this. Instead of godawful low-budget plays and sanctimonious Serious Film, Tyler Perry needs to put more of his effort–in fact, all his efforts–into sheer pure blinding comedy. I’d happily watch more Tyler Perry if it were all as hilarious as Meet The Browns.

The Screenhead Ten Scale gives Meet the Browns Season Two a seven out of ten; it’s not quite as good as season one was, but season two will have plenty of good quality laughs in its own right.