The Night Manager Season 2 Teaser Drops: Tom Hiddleston Returns for His Most Dangerous Mission Yet
Nearly a decade on, Tom Hiddleston slips back into suave spy mode as Jonathan Pine in The Night Manager Season 2, with the BBC’s first look teasing a sleek, high-stakes bid to expose a shadowy conspiracy.
After almost a decade, Tom Hiddleston is back in the suit (and the trouble) as Jonathan Pine. The BBC just rolled out the first teaser for The Night Manager season 2, and it looks like Pine’s attempt at a quiet life goes about as well as you’d expect.
Where season 2 picks up
Pine has been laying low under a new name, Alex Goodwin, tucked inside a small MI6 surveillance unit in London. Low-profile, low-drama, low risk. That lasts until a former mercenary shows up in the night with a warning and a job: find an arms dealer named Teddy Dos Santos. One favor later, Pine is yanked right back into the world he was trying to outrun.
He’s still carrying the baggage from last time, and the show is leaning into that. Expect the psychological fallout to sit alongside the bruises: messy choices, rough interrogations, and those last-second escapes that feel earned rather than cartoonish. The bigger picture? Pine starts pulling on a thread that points to a high-level conspiracy with the kind of stakes that make powerful people very twitchy.
What the teaser actually shows
Quick flashes of chaos: explosions, grainy surveillance feeds, and Pine sprinting through unfamiliar alleys. It’s clipped, tense, and very much in the vein of the first season’s sleek, grown-up spy thriller vibe. Hiddleston looks appropriately exhausted and stubborn, which is the Pine sweet spot.
Cast check
- Returning: Tom Hiddleston as Jonathan Pine, Olivia Colman as intelligence officer Angela Burr, plus Alistair Petrie, Michael Nardone, Noah Jupe, and Douglas Hodge.
- New faces: Diego Calva as arms dealer Teddy Dos Santos, Camila Morrone as Roxana, Indira Varma as Mayra, Hayley Squires as Sally, and Paul Chahid as Basil.
When to expect it
No official date yet. The current chatter points to late 2025 or early 2026. Not ideal for the impatient, but if they keep the quality bar where season 1 left it, worth the wait.