After watching the series I don't even know how there's a season 2 already. The first season isn't a faithful adaptation of the games which I'm not surprised by since this is Netflix we're talking about. This is just another IP that's bastardized by Adi Shankar who thinks swearing makes you cool, America is evil, Christianity is bad, and demons are misunderstood immigrants. Seriously what the hell does the War on Terror have anything to do with Devil May Cry? Nothing. None of those have anything to do with the games and don't belong in them. It's about a wacky wahoo pizza man who is trying to find his place in the world while protecting said world from demons and exploring the themes of humanity and the soul. The demons themselves suddenly were not from Hell or the Demon World, but from Makai, which is a parallel dimension, have common ancestry with humanity, and the medallion is some tech-babble quantum separator that keeps the dimensions apart instead of, you know, magic.

I don't expect season 2 to be any better because if they just adapted to the source material than the points I would've made would work. But here's what needs to happen. Make Dante overpowered because he was just so inconsistent in the Netflix series. One minute he's casually dodging bullets the next he's struggling against Lady. Even when he was young like he was in Devil May Cry 3 he was unstoppable against Lady and he doesn't even flinch when he's shot in the head or in the stomach. Yet for some reason he gets taken out by tasers and anti-demon bullets. Plus he's not an idiot. There was no way he would've fell for Lady's tricks during their fight in the second episode.

Speaking of Lady, I'm very much sick and tired of the Mary Sue girl boss routine. It's unappealing and embarrassing. She isn't Batman with plot armor because even with that ridiculous outfit she has there was no way she would've survived the hits she took from high level demons. Make her struggle she isn't Captain America she's just a very skilled human. Another is to make her stop swearing every five minutes and give her a chill pill because she was just so insufferable whenever she appeared. She was even worse than Annette from Castlevania Nocturne. You could've made her a solo demon hunter who was searching for her father that survived the fire while killing demons on the way. And I don't know why her father didn't turn out to be the White Rabbit since he was very integral in Lady's development as a character. He could also have been working for Vergil from the shadows.

Speaking of Vergil, I am genuinely at a loss as to how he is willingly working for Mundus. You know the guy who murdered his mother in cold blood? He's either being mind controlled or worse manipulated by Mundus into thinking that Mundus is helping him seek revenge against those who killed his family. I dont know something along those lines. Which still doesn't make sense because Vergil isn't stupid so he could be playing the long game and pretending to serve Mundus until the appropriate moment. I don't know why they didn't just make it simple. Oh wait I know why because Shankar pretends to be a fan of the series and doesn't know the core themes of the games.

Another is to remove this ridiculous concept of the demons being misunderstood victims being oppressed by a tyrannical king. Seriously I'm sick to death of this trope. It's only been done once which was in the old Gargoyles show. Demons are universally and religiously known to attack, corrupt, and ruin human civilization. This completely takes away the whole point of why Sparda fought against his own kind in the first place. Demons are inherently evil through and through which is why the very idea of a demon killing his own kind for the sake of humanity is unthinkable. It's unheard of and super rare. And that's what makes Sparda so unique because he was the first to do so. If there are "good" demons then why didn't Sparda help them? He could've made these Makaians escape into the human world and maybe have them live on an island similar to what he did with Fortuna away from humanity.

For season 2 to work, everything I stated above should be taken into consideration. And it's not just me but everyone else who strongly criticized this series. If you like it, that's fine I won't hold it against you.

I expected it because it's Netflix, but to be honest, I watched season 1 for the second time and but the second time I skipped all the things related to politics

Personally I also think Shankar should've depicted the White Rabbit much better and maybe at least have him as Arkham's right-hand in an aid to try and help obtain Sparda's power and as a way to hype up Arkham for a second season, kinda like from the DMC3 Manga

The White Rabbit was a good villain I won't deny that but he falls off only due to the plot line of demons being an oppressed race.

The White Rabbit could have been working for Arkham like SkyJolt said and the reason why is because Arkham promised him that by attaining the items needed to open a portal to the demon world to gain Sparda's power, he would help the White Rabbit in destroying human civilization. The White Rabbit have similar motivations only difference is that he is mainly seeking the destruction of humanity and succumbed to the demons' temptation with promises of giving him power to strike back at a world that did nothing but bring him so much misery and the whole "oppressed immigrant demon" crap is nonexistent. It's just a man completely broken and his soul has been hijacked by evil to use for its own gain.

However, the White Rabbit betrays Arkham and would instead use the power of Sparda for his own gain like what Ronan did with Thanos in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. The White Rabbit would unleash the true form of the Sparda sword but he can't fully open the portal to the Demon World even if the sword is pumping him up because he doesn't know that Lady's blood is the final key since she's a descendant of the priestess that Sparda used to seal away the Temen-ni-gru. He wouldn't know because Arkham didn't tell him about it since Arkham knew that at some point he was bound to betray him. Dante and Lady fight and defeat the White Rabbit but not without the latter telling Lady that her dear old daddy is the mastermind behind this which shocks Lady since she thought her dad was dead.

After the battle, Dante asks Lady if she needs his help but she declines since this is her father and thus her mess but Dante insists since her dad pulled Dante's own family into the mess as well. So she reluctantly accepts. Meanwhile, Arkham is disappointed by the White Rabbit's course but he at least is looking forward to his daughter now coming to find him. He decides to find another means of assistance...enter Vergil.

That would've a whole lot better, and the next season could've been based/inspired by the third Devil May Cry game

Also not gonna lie, when it came to DARKCOM, I did have my hopes for it since I did see some potential in them, maybe acting similar to that of the Global Occult Coalition or SCP Foundation and VP Baines could've been treated maybe like an Anti-Villain unlike the show where he's treated as pure evil due to how the Demons were portrayed, maybe have it where he seems to have good intentions as he genuinely wants to protect the world, but he also wants to kill Dante due to him being half demon himself and sees him as a potential threat, but after the White Rabbit and maybe Arkham, he would've had a change of view on Dante and aid him on later adventures, or keep him evil and want to kill Dante and Vergil, idk, just trying to see if I can think of something better for DARKCOM

Not really like the GOC but DARKCOM would've been more like Cadmus from Justice League Unlimited and Vice President Baines would've been Devil May Cry's equivalent to Amanda Waller.

Like Cadmus, DARKCOM realizes how hopelessly outgunned humanity is compared to the firepower the demons wield because there are demons powerful enough to threaten the world as a whole. DARKCOM would've been experimenting on demons as well as hoarding materials like Devil Arms to create weapons that are capable of killing the demons and give humanity a fighting chance.

Baines is too much of a fundamentalist to even trust Dante because he believes demon blood coursing through one's veins would turn the individual into an infernal monster. He doesn't see Dante as the exception either regardless of his noble intentions because he's worried that what if he loses control of his demonic half and goes on a rampage which makes it especially worse considering that he's a son of Sparda. Dante could change his mind...until Vergil comes in and botches it all up. When it comes to Sparda I would say Baines believes that Sparda is a devil who simply separated his world from theirs for the sole purpose of ruling over it himself. Like in his mind, Sparda's feats and tales of his accomplishments would entice the masses so much it could even possibly overshadow Christianity itself and the populace started worshipping a demon much like the Order of the Sword did.

In addition, Lady would've been a solo demon hunter instead of a DARKCOM agent. Like she's on her own personal mission to find something that leads to what her father was doing and working for DARKCOM will only distract her even if Baines gives her the tools needed to make it easy for her. She will work with them not FOR them and she ends up being hired by DARKCOM alongside the mercenaries to take Dante out unaware that it's part of a set up by the White Rabbit who used DARKCOM to reveal Dante's location and the amulet.

Yeah that's definitely better than what I thought