While the last installment was about building connections, this one is very much about breaking them to pieces and starting anew, which is only fitting considering this season revolves around Camp Firewood being literally torn down. The fun is in seeing the radical places that everyone has ended up rather than marveling at their clever origin stories. In that sense, the first episode spends the majority of its time simply introducing everyone and catching up the audience.

In an eight-episode season this might feel like a bit of a waste, but with dozens of characters, what are they supposed to do here? The only real answer it to have a longer season, but with First Day of Camp also being a mere eight episodes, that seems to be the pattern that these guys are following. The season certainly could have used a few more episodes this time though. Similarly, this season—more than last season—really feels like it should be watched in one sitting like a long movie. Doing so would even help some of the material flow a little better, too.

Ten Years Later also suffers a little in the sense that it feels particularly broken up when it comes to the actors. Characters are grouped together into their own divided stories, but the entire cast isn’t intermingling as a whole. This issue is not as negligible as how Children’s Hospital would maneuver around scheduling and availability during its later seasons (or what was going on in Arrested Development’s fourth season), but is noticeable. The season as a whole feels more isolated than the previous one. For instance, in one of the more blatant, cavalier (but also hilarious) examples of this sort of thing, Joe Lo Truglio’s Neil decides to “take a nap” for four episodes only to wake up in the later half of the season, when he’s got the time to step in.

These minor quibbles aside, none of the many storylines feel rushed and everything is given enough time to breathe. It’s a real delicate balancing act that never shows its hand. The characters deal with the insecurity over who they’ve turned into through the years, however everyone is going through this same problem. At their core, they’re still those ridiculous teenagers from summer camp, and so are these actors, no matter how old they are. That’s sort of the point here.

As Ten Years Later navigates around this hemorrhaging cast of characters, it has a lot of fun with things like Andy’s quarter-life crisis, what the continued adventures of McKinley and Ben look like, or the A-Team-esque action scenes involving two characters that should be dead. John Early is golden and everything he does here is perfect and while David Hyde Pierce’s Professor Henry Neumann may not fill a large role this time, my favorite joke from the entire season comes from him. There’s no shortage of things to rave about.