Question: What does the second season explore?
About the article "Gossip Girl", section "Season 2: 2008–2009".

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Speaking of the season, creator Bruno Heller said, "Every season, you kind of take a chance to reset things.
... Last season was almost serialized.
There was a great deal of plot and story that you could follow through the whole season.
We're going to need less of that this season."
He commented that the new season would explore Jane's feelings about finally catching his "white whale", Red John: "What does revenge mean?
Because, as you saw in that final moment, after you've killed someone, what's left?
... That kind of bitterness and hate kills things.
But then, what do you do?"
On May 10, 2012, ABC renewed "Once Upon a Time" for a second season, which premiered on September 30, 2012.
Co-creators Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis spoke about the repercussions of the first season finale's events, stating, "Magic as we know always comes with a price and we are introducing it to a world where it has never been before and I think that’s going to have unpredictable results.
It’s going to affect everybody this season because that’s what’s more fun."
said Kitsis.
On everyone in Storybrooke's memories returning Horowitz commented, "One of the things that’s interesting to us to explore is this notion that just because the memories have returned does not mean that the past 28 years did not happen.
Those memories, the Davids, the Mary Margarets, the Mr. Golds, all those people, who they were existed and what they did actually happened and those are the things that will have to be dealt with.
"The show still bounced back-and-forth between the fairy-tale world and Storybrooke, although there were slight differences compared to season one.
It was hinted that another form of narrative was introduced during the season. 
"What Does the Bee Do?"
is the fourth episode of the second season of the HBO television series "Boardwalk Empire", and 16th episode overall.
First aired on October 16, 2011, it was written by executive story editor Steve Kornacki and directed by Ed Bianchi. 
In 1736, three different survey expeditions were organized with all three having representatives of both the Colony of Virginia and of Lord Fairfax.
One party was to explore and map the Potomac to its head; this included Major William Mayo and Mr Brookes for the Colony (and King) and Mr Winslow and John Savage for Fairfax.
A second party was to explore and map the North Branch of the Rappahannock (Mr Wood, Mr Thomas, Jr) and the final party was to explore and map the South Branches (Rapidan and Conway Rivers) of the Rappahannock (Mr Graeme, Mr Thomas, Sr).
All parties consisted of surveyors and commissioners and their works were completed in all three cases.
The work of the three groups and the county surveyors lead to the preparation of a map of the Northern Neck in 1736 and 1737.
This map shows the courses of the Potomac and Rappahannock and cites latitudes across the map.
What the map does not show, however, is a western boundary line for the grant.
A line connecting the head springs of the Potomac with those of the Rappahannock had yet to be surveyed.
This was to be the work of Colonel Peter Jefferson and Thomas Lewis — the "Fairfax Line" party — in 1746 and 1747, which finally settled the disputed claims. 
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