We may have a ways to go before we get a second dose of the Seven and the Boys, but there's
plenty of information coming out already about what's in store on the series' upcoming season.
Here's everything you need to know about The Boys season 2.
Filming on The Boys season 2 began in the summer of 2019, and back then, it looked as
though the series was on track to drop its second season very soon. The Boys series creator
Eric Kripke openly admitted that he wanted to deliver a fresh bundle of episodes to viewers
in summer 2020, ideally one year after season one premiered.
Unfortunately, the coronavirus pandemic wound up shutting down virtually all film and television
productions in early 2020 but thankfully, The Boys had already wrapped filming on season
2 by that point in time. On the final day of shooting in November 2019, Kripke tweeted
that season 2 was, quote, "coming summer 2020." However, while principal photography was complete,
all the post-production work for season 2 still had to be done and it could only be
safely finished remotely due to health and safety restrictions put in place in response
to the coronavirus. That threw a wrench in the plan for season 2 to have a summer premiere.
In May 2020, Kripke promised via a tweet that season 2 was nearly finished, and that a release
date announcement was coming soon. He and the folks at Amazon Studios made good on that
promise in late June 2020, when they announced that The Boys season 2 will definitively premiere
on September 4, 2020.
Viewers will be rewarded for waiting so patiently: The Boys season 2 will air its first three
episodes on September 4, then one new episode per week for five more weeks. As Kripke noted
on Twitter,
"The new season is SO F------ NUTS, it'll give you more time to obsess."
The vast majority of the original cast of The Boys is set to return for season 2 most
notably the full Boys roster: Karl Urban as former-CIA-operative-turned-Boys-leader Billy
Butcher; Jack Quaid as Hughie Campbell, who teams with the Boys after a member the Seven
kills his girlfriend; Laz Alonso as Marvin, aka Mother's Milk; Karen Fukuhara as Kimiko;
and Tomer Capon as Frenchie.
Also returning for the new season are Anthony Starr as Homelander, the leader of the Seven;
Erin Moriarty as Starlight, the Seven's newcomer who possesses light-emitting powers; and Chase
Crawford as the Deep, the Seven's answer to Aquaman. Even more are expected to come back:
Nathan Mitchell as Black Noir, Dominique McElligott as Queen Maeve, and Jessie T. Usher as A-Train.
Finally, Giancarlo Esposito will return as Stan Edgar, the head of the Seven's overseeing
company Vought International.
The Boys season 2 won't be all familiar faces, though. Joining the series for its second
season is Aya Cash, best known for her work on the FX comedy You're the Worst, who will
play a gender-swapped version of Stormfront, a powerful superhuman who also happens to
be a Neo-Nazi.
Two Timeless alums, Goran Visnjic and Claudia Doumit, will also appear on The Boys season
2. According to Deadline, Visnjic will play Alistair Adana, the, quote, "charismatic and
shadowy leader of a mysterious church," while Doumit has been cast as Victoria Neuman, who's
described as a young wunderkind congresswoman.
Additionally, Patton Oswalt will be on The Boys season 2, though details on his role
are being kept under wraps.
When we last left our ragtag group of anti-heroes on season 1 of The Boys, the future of the
corrupt superheroes known as the Seven and of Vought International, the company that
manages the team was completely up in the air. The season 1 finale left a lot of doors
open for where season 2 could go, but the biggest revelation we dealt with had to do
with Billy Butcher and his season-long vendetta against Homelander. When Butcher realized
that his wife Becca was still alive and also raising her and Homelander's eight-year-old
child, Butcher was left in a position that not even comic fans know the outcome of.
Now that Vought International vice president Madelyn Stillwell is out of the picture, season
2 of The Boys will also have to deal with what will come of Homelander, as well as the
future of Vought. Chances are that we'll be seeing much more of the company's inner politics,
and we're sure to get a wider variety of Supes in the mix, especially considering the addition
of Stormfront to the cast.
"This is never gonna stop. It's just gonna be more blood and awfulness." "That's the
f----- game"
Since the first teaser trailer for The Boys season 1 was released during New York Comic-Con
in October 2018, many fans were holding out hope that the first footage from season 2
would arrive in October 2019. That was a close guess, as Amazon dropped the first teaser
trailer for The Boys season 2 in December 2019 during Comic Con Experience São Paulo
in Brazil.
From the released footage, it's clear the second season of The Boys will be even bigger,
better, and bloodier than the first. The teaser opened on Homelander, his face freckled with
blood after his split with Madelyn, then shifted to unspool a quick-paced montage of what is
to come on the new episodes. Familiar faces, most notably a still-alive A-Train, are back
in brutal action, and some characters who had little screen time on season 1 are seemingly
going to play a big part in the upcoming narrative.
During San Diego Comic-Con@Home in July 2020, Amazon Studios unveiled another sneak peek
at The Boys season 2 this time via a clip featuring Billy and the Boys speeding a boat
directly into a beached whale. Then, on August 4, 2020, the company dropped the official
trailer for the new season. As expected, there's a ton of wit, violence, and Boys-versus-Supes
tension in store.
Start counting down the days until The Boys season 2 premieres on Amazon Prime Video on
September 4, 2020.
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