Chad Powers Scores Season 2 as Hulu Doubles Down
Hulu is running it back: Chad Powers scores a Season 2 renewal, with Glen Powell suiting up again as Russ Holliday.
Hulu is suiting up for more fake mustaches and busted cover stories: reports say the sports-comedy series 'Chad Powers' is coming back for Season 2. If you finished the six-episode first run and stared at that cliffhanger like, wait, that cannot be the ending, this tracks.
The quick refresher
Glen Powell ('Top Gun: Maverick', 'Twisters') stars as Russ Holliday, a disgraced football player who sneaks his way back onto the field by inventing a new identity: Chad Powers. Under that alter ego, he tries out for and joins the South Georgia Catfish. The whole thing is inspired by a real bit from ESPN and Omaha Productions series 'Eli's Places,' where Eli Manning went undercover at Penn State walk-on tryouts. So yes, this show spins an actual prank into a full-on narrative about second chances, ego, and some fairly chaotic locker-room dynamics.
Who is who
Because this gets confusing in a hurry: Chad Powers is the made-up persona Powell's character uses. It is not a separate actor. The ensemble around him includes:
- Perry Mattfeld as Ricky
- Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd
- Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager
- Frankie A. Rodriguez as Danny
- Steve Zahn as Coach Jake Hudson
Season 2 hopes were baked in
Earlier this year, Powell told The Hollywood Reporter he was already thinking beyond Season 1:
"The reality is there’s a lot more story to be told. There was a construction early on for an arc of what the Catfish would look like. So we have a beginning, middle and end in mind. But people have to tune in and show us they want to see it. We believe in this show. I believe we have a hit show here and one the world’s really going to love. If we get the privilege to make a second season, we have some fun stuff in mind."
Why people clicked with it
Even if you do not care about football, the show plays more like a character comedy than a playbook clinic. The game footage looks sharp, but most of the juice comes from practices, team-building, and all the little frictions that pop off between characters. JoBlo reviewer Alex Maidy dug the balance: he called out the steady stream of cameo appearances from well-known sportscasters/reporters, said the show made him pick favorites by the finale, and argued that Powell threads action, comedy, and drama in a way that should not work but absolutely does. With such a short debut season, the push for an early renewal made sense. Now it is happening at Hulu.
No premiere window yet, but with that cliffhanger hanging out there, the Catfish have some unfinished business.