Maxton Hall Season 2: Can James and Ruby Survive Oxford?

After Season 1’s heartbreak-betrayal-reunion roller coaster, Prime Video’s Maxton Hall: The World Between Us roars into Season 2, plunging James and Ruby into the explosive fallout of their second chance.

If you thought Maxton Hall wrapped things up with a neat bow, nope. Season 1 ended on a high and then pulled the rug at the last second. Season 2 is set to live in that fallout, and yes, the release date is locked: November 7, 2025 on Prime Video.

Where James and Ruby left off

Quick rewind: James caved to his father earlier in the season, chose family over Ruby, and broke her heart. Then fate (and Oxford) pulled them back into the same orbit. They spent days pretending to be chill about it — stolen looks in lectures, a lot of swallowed feelings — until James blew up in a class Q&A because jealousy is apparently his favorite hobby. That argument turned into a very intense make-up and an overnight stay that basically reset them as a couple.

Oxford wasn’t just a pretty backdrop. For both of them, it felt like air after years under the Beaufort family thumb. And for Ruby, it was a double win: she earned her spot at one of the most prestigious universities on the planet and got back the guy she actually wanted.

The gut punch: Lydia, a voicemail, and a funeral

Then comes the shocker. Lydia is pregnant — with Professor Sutton’s baby. It’s a messy situation, she knows it, and she decides to keep the baby and raise the child while staying in school. She calls her mom, gets voicemail, and leaves a message.

By the time James and Lydia make it home, they find out the truth: their mother has died from a stroke. Their father didn’t tell them. That silence becomes the final straw. Grief and rage boil over, it turns physical, and James ends up battered and devastated, accusing his father of running their family like a boardroom instead of, you know, a home.

Their mother was the one warm thing in a house built on control. Without her, it’s just the siblings and their strict, neglectful patriarch — which is exactly as bleak as it sounds.

What that means for James and Ruby

After the fight, James walks to Ruby’s place, bruised and crying. Through the window, he sees her glowing, telling her family about Oxford. He turns around and leaves before she can see him. That’s the whole conflict in one quiet moment: he wants her, but he sees himself as the problem — the darkness that would swallow her light. Based on where Season 1 stops, there’s a real chance he backs away again, this time to protect her rather than obey his father.

Meanwhile, Lydia’s pregnancy isn’t just drama for drama’s sake. Their father’s obsession with appearances is going to crash into her plan to be a single mom. She’s not backing down; he’s not exactly flexible. That tension is the powder keg for Season 2.

Season 2: what to expect

• Story direction: The show is based on Mona Kasten’s Save Me trilogy, so Season 2 will likely track the second book — more grief, more ambition-versus-love, more fallout.
• James: Working through his mother’s death and the damage his father has done, while trying not to wreck the one good thing he has left.
• Ruby: Holding on to Oxford and her big-picture goals without losing herself in James’s spiral.
• Lydia: Standing her ground as a single mother, even with a powerful father who treats reputation like religion.
• Setting and tone: Oxford stays central, but the vibe darkens; the easy wins are over and the emotional bruises don’t fade quickly.
• New faces: Expect fresh characters to complicate everything — relationships, loyalties, and plans.
• Themes: Trauma and control, and how both warp the way these characters love and fight.

The basics

Maxton Hall - The World Between Us streams on Prime Video. It’s adapted from Save Me by Mona Kasten and directed by Martin Schreier and Tarek Roehlinger. If you care about the numbers: IMDb has it at 7.5/10, and it sits at 70% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Season 2 drops November 7, 2025. Place your bets now: do James and Ruby actually get a clean shot at happiness, or do family power plays and personal ambition pull them apart again?