Percy Jackson & the Olympians Season 2: Is Poseidon Finally Shaking the Deadbeat Label?
Percy Jackson & the Olympians Season 2 crashes ashore with a thunderhead of a trailer—seas churn, ancient terrors surge, and Camp Half-Blood buckles—leaving one burning question: is Poseidon finally stepping up, or does the deadbeat label still stick?
Disney just dropped the Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2 trailer, and it is all crashing waves, crumbling Camp Half-Blood walls, and mythic nasties crawling out of the deep. Also teased: the big question fans love to argue about. Is Poseidon actually going to show up as a father this time, or are we back to deadbeat dad jokes?
What the trailer actually shows
It keeps things pretty tight, but there is one clear beat: Poseidon reaches out to Percy and offers an encouraging nudge. The trailer frames their dynamic as a real thread this year, not just background lore.
"Do not underestimate yourself."
Between that voice-over and Percy’s mixed reactions, the season looks set to put their father-son mess front and center, tying the high-stakes quest to whether Percy can accept the whole "child of a god" thing when that god has not exactly been around.
So what is Season 2 about?
Season 2 adapts Rick Riordan’s second book, The Sea of Monsters, and picks up roughly a year after Season 1. Camp Half-Blood is suddenly vulnerable after Thalia’s tree is poisoned and the camp’s magical borders start failing. While Grover goes missing, Percy discovers he has a cyclops half-brother named Tyson. Cue a voyage into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece and save the camp.
On top of the sea battles and monster encounters, expect the relationships to carry more weight: Percy and Annabeth, sure, but especially Percy and Poseidon. The trailer hints the show knows that the external quest and Percy’s internal push to own his legacy are the same fight.
Release plan
Season 2 is eight episodes and premieres on Disney+ on December 10, 2025. The first two episodes drop together, with the rest rolling out weekly on Wednesdays.
Who is back (and who is new)
Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri are back as the core trio: Percy, Annabeth, and Grover. Toby Stephens and Virginia Kull return as Percy’s parents, Poseidon and Sally Jackson.
More returning faces: Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan, Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue, Glynn Turman as Chiron, and Jason Mantzoukas as Mr. D (Dionysus). Lin-Manuel Miranda is back as Hermes, with Daniel Diemer, Timothy Simons, and Adam Copeland also returning. Some performers show up as recurring or guest stars depending on episode count, which is why you may see names like Virginia Kull and Glynn Turman listed both ways.
New this season: Andra Day, Sandra Bernhard, Margaret Cho, Kristen Schaal, Tamara Smart, and Rosemarie DeWitt. And in a notable switch, Courtney B. Vance steps in as Zeus, taking over the role from Lance Reddick, who passed away in March 2023.
The basics
- Creators: Rick Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg
- Showrunners: Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz
- Main directors (Season 1): James Bobin (pilot), Anders Engstrom, Jet Wilkinson
- Network: Disney+
- Production companies: 20th Television, Co-Lab 21, The Gotham Group
- Seasons: 3 total planned (Season 1 in 2023, Season 2 in 2025, Season 3 greenlit)
- Episodes per season: 8 (Season 1), 8 (Season 2)
- Average runtime: ~45 minutes per episode
- Season 1 plot in a sentence: Percy gets accused of stealing Zeus’s thunderbolt and treks across the U.S. to fix a looming godly meltdown.
- Season 2 focus: Camp Half-Blood is threatened, Percy learns about Tyson, and the quest for the Golden Fleece drives an ocean-bound adventure that adapts The Sea of Monsters.
- Source material: Based on Rick Riordan’s book series.
Bottom line: the trailer promises bigger monsters, higher stakes, and a real attempt to tackle Percy’s god-sized identity crisis. If the show actually follows through on the Poseidon-Percy stuff it teases here, that is the upgrade I was hoping for.