While The Second Civil War seeks to mimic the cognitive dissonance of a fragmenting political culture, it's too much like brain surgery by lobbing grenades at a tumor.

The Second Civil War suffers from excess, an unclear purpose and a wildly fluctuating tone.

What might have been a devilishly clever satire of politically incorrect proportions soon takes a course that does all that cleverness in. It turns silly and ugly. It turns to sex and violence.

Dante piles on the social satire without resorting to preachiness.