The Boys season 2: release date, cast, trailer and everything we know

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The Boys season 2: release date, cast, trailer and everything we know

The Boys will return in 2020

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The Boys season 2 is one of our most anticipated shows of 2020, especially among Amazon Prime originals. The first season marked our favorite TV take on superheroes yet, taking the gritty comics by Garth Ennis and retaining the ultraviolence, but adding a surprising amount of heart, too. The Boys season 2 release date hasn't been revealed yet, but we suspect it's getting closer, now that we're in the summer months. 

 

The Boys season 2 was announced before the show even debuted, demonstrating Amazon Prime's confidence in what it had. It became one of the platform's most successful shows to date. In season 2, expect to meet brand new Supes, as showrunner Eric Kripke and company dig deeper into the comics. 

 

Filming wrapped on The Boys season 2 some time ago, so now it's just a matter of waiting. Below, we’ll tell you everything we know about the release date of The Boys season 2, show you the official trailer, reveal which new heroes and villains are joining the series, and more. 

The Boys season 2 release date: mid-2020?

The first season of The Boys debuted in late July 2019, so we expect The Boys season 2 release date at about the same time. In fact, creator Eric Kripke said as much at SDCC 2019. Kripke told Collider to expect the second season at "about the same time next year". A summer release of July 2020 seems the most likely. 

 

We were due to learn more about The Boys season 2 during the PaleyFest TV festival in March 2020, but the event was cancelled over the global pandemic. It's possible that this is when Amazon planned on revealing a tentative release date. 

 

A release date of mid-2020 still fits, as actor Karl Urban confirmed on Instagram that he wrapped filming on the show back in November 2019.

 

The Boys season 2 trailer: first look at the show here

The Boys season 2 trailer (watch it here) doesn't reveal much about the plot, but it - predictably - has plenty of violence, and snapshots of the show's characters. That was released in December 2019, and remains our only look at season 2 to date. 

 

 

It appears that The Boys season 2 will pick up right where the first left off, with the evil Superman stand-in Homelander (the magnificent Antony Starr) revealing a super-powered son, and Hughie (Jack Quaid) saving the life of speedster A-Train (Jessie T. Usher), despite running through his girlfriend at the start of the show. Ouch.

 

 

We also caught a shot of Terror, Billy Butcher's dog from the comics which, given his special, err, talent, is one of the most exciting additions to the cast going in to season 2. 

 

 

If it'll help tide you over until season 2 arrives, Amazon released this short 'Young Homelander' clip below in November 2019, to remind you why he's not very nice.

 

The Boys season 2 cast hints at the new story to come

 

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Expect both The Boys and The Seven's cast members to return. Karl Urban will return as Billy Butcher, along with Jack Quaid as Hughie, Laz Alonso as Mother's Milk, Tomer Kapon as Frenchie, and Karen Fukuhara as The Female, all of whom survived the first season.

 

Starlight (Erin Moriarty) will return, along with other members from The Seven: Homelander (Antony Starr), gross fish man The Deep (Chace Crawford), Queen Maeve (Dominique McElligott) and probably A-Train (Jessie T Usher). However, the latter will need to recover from the heart attack he suffered at the end of season 1. 

 

 

Giancarlo Esposito (best known as Breaking Bad's Gus Fring and Moff Gideon in The Mandalorian) appeared in the first season's finale, guest starring as enigmatic Vought CEO, Mr Edgar. Expect him to play a larger role in season 2, especially with Madelyn Stillwell (Shue) killed in the finale. 

 

 

Actor and comedian Patton Oswalt will join Aya Cash's Stormfront, along with two other new faces playing key roles: according to Deadline, Goran Visnjic and Claudia Doumit are also in for the grisly season 2 party. Our first look at Stormfront has been revealed. Take a look at her design below:

 

 

Stormfront will be like a "hand grenade" thrown into the Seven, according to Cash. "I think she’s here to blow up Vought," Cash told EW. "She’s here to try to get Vought back to the original idea behind creating superheroes... And she can be quite the feminist. There’s a lot of, I wouldn’t say misdirect, but she also is a very empowered woman." This new Vought 'Supe' has enough power to actually fight The Seven.

 

Visnjic plays Alistair Adana, the cultish leader of a shadowy church, while Doumit plays an up-and-coming congresswoman. Hugh Campbell Snr. will not return, Simon Pegg told Collider.

 

 

Will we see a return of the so-called "invisible c**t"? In Eric Kripke's tweet above, we can see a "green guy" who looks an awful lot like Alex Hassell's Translucent. The trouble is, Translucent was killed by Frenchie and his "ass bomb", by, err, shoving explosive where the sun don't shine. So we're not sure how Hassell is returning, but we're interested to see how it's going to happen.

 

 

While nothing is confirmed, it looks like Jeffrey Dean Morgan (best known as the fiendish Negan in The Walking Dead) could have a place in The Boys season 2 cast. Following Eric Kripke's tweet saying "I'll make you a deal. Season 3. I'll write it, and if you're avail, come shoot it!", Morgan replied, "in a heartbeat!"

 

 

What is confirmed is that the "terrifying" Black Noir is set to play a major role in the second season.  Announced at C2E2 Expo (via ComicBook.com), the mystery of the dark-suited masked vigilante will hang over season 2, and he'll have no lines of dialogue or action scenes. We'll never even see his face. "You're going to love what's coming up for Black Noir. It's so good," Karl Urban enthused at a panel.

The Boys season 2 episode titles hint at what's to come

 

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Episode titles for The Boys season 2 were revealed on the WGA website. They don't reveal much, but hint just a little at what to expect from the coming year. 

• Butcher, Baker, Candlestick Maker - written by Craig Rosenberg
• Nothing Like It In The World - written by Michael Saltzman
• Over The Hill With The Swords Of A Thousand Men - written by Craig Rosenberg
• Proper Preparation and Planning - written by Rebecca Sonnenshine
• The Big Ride - written by Eric Kripke
• The Bloody Doors Off - written by Anslem Richardson
• We Gotta Go Now - written by Ellie Monahan
• What I Know - written by Rebecca Sonnenshine

A few elements hang in the air from the season one finale. First, expect Compound V, the mysterious drug that gives superpowers to humans, to remain a recurring mystery. 

 

 

"If it’s a secret, if it’s nothing the world knows about yet, then it [Compound V] becomes a secret that everyone will kill for, and it gives you an object that everybody wants, and it does all the great things a McGuffin does," Kripke told Entertainment Weekly. Now Billy and Hughie know that secret, what happens next?

 

 

At the end of season one, Homelander dropped Billy Butcher on the lawn of his wife, Becca, who he presumed dead. Instead, she has a family with Homelander, including their superpowered son. It's quite a predicament for poor Billy: how will he escape? And does this mean Billy and the rest of The Boys will struggle to function as an underground group, now Homelander has Billy in his laser sights?

 

 

The death of Madelyn Stillwell (Elisabeth Shue) will be important for season 2's story, naturally. Then there's Vought International's mysterious CEO, Mr Edgar (Giancarlo Esposito), who looks to be appearing in around four or five episodes, having made a notable cameo at the end of the season. At least one new villain will be added to the mix from the comics, too: Stormfront (Aya Cash), a kind of Thor/Shazam mash-up who's gender-flipped from the comics. We can't tell if she'll be a villain or not yet, though...

The best superhero show on TV?

 

The Boys was one of the surprise hits of the year, with a strong ensemble cast and an original angle on the superheroes in a time almost saturated with them. Executive producer Seth Rogen's words about the next set of episodes to Collider justify our optimism for the show's future. "We just watched, actually, the first episode of the second season this week. It was a wonderful thing as producers. This is way better than I ever could’ve hoped it would be."

 

 

Source: The Boys season 2: release date, cast, trailer and everything we know (TechRadar)