While I enjoyed most of episode 8 as a single hour of television, as a season finale it wasn't great. This really should have been episode 4, with whatever they had planned for S2 being eps 5-8.
Nothing was resolved in any satisfactory way, except maybe the Rhett & Maria subplot. Instead they just created more questions. And after spending so many scenes and episodes twiddling their thumbs, its just not good enough.
I also found it really weird that the mother just went home after losing her granddaughter. I know the cop didn't want to help at the rodeo (that in itself was weird), but wouldn't you get Rhett to help you look. Maybe drive around town or wait at the Sheriff's office, or go to the Sheriff's home. I know she wasn't at either place, but Cecilia didn't know that.
The one good thing is that Billy dying means no more singing every episode. Who thought that was a good idea to do once an ep? Waste of 5 minutes an episode - I skipped past them in the end.
If Prime continues with this series, they need to either fire the current creator/showrunner - or hire a new co-showrunner and editor who knows when irrelevant scenes need to be cut.