THE STORY \u2013 Season 2 of \u201cPercy Jackson and the Olympians\u201d follows the titular son of Poseidon\u2019s second summer at the demigod haven Camp Half Blood, where he joins forces with the daughter of Athena to quest for the mythical golden fleece of Greek legend. Adapted from Rick Riordan\u2019s \u201cSea of Monsters\u201d novel.<\/p>\n
THE CAST \u2013 Walker Scobell, Leah Sava\u2019 Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Daniel Diemer, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn, Jason Mantzoukas, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Adam Copeland, Timothy Simons & Beatrice Kitsos<\/p>\n
THE TEAM \u2013 Rick Riordan (Author\/Creator\/Writer), Jonathan E. Steinberg (Creator\/Showrunner) & Dan Shotz (Showrunner)<\/p>\n
After the aborted attempt at establishing a film franchise in the early 2010s left \u201cPercy Jackson\u201d fans less than dazzled, Disney+\u2019s long-awaited 2024 series, \u201cPercy Jackson and the Olympians,\u201d surpassed expectations, delivering the \u201cLightning Thief\u201d adaptation readers had dreamed of, thanks in large part to its trio of young stars (Walter Scobell, Leah Sava\u2019 Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri). With the might and wealth of Disney+ behind the series and author Rick Riordan at the helm, season two of \u201cPercy Jackson\u201d is an almost startlingly book-accurate adaptation that dials up the emotional complexity for its young protagonists as they embark on a dangerous seafaring quest.<\/p>\n
In the wake of his tumultuous first summer at Camp Half Blood, Percy (Scobell) has spent the year counting the minutes until he can reunite with Annabeth (Jeffries) and learning to cohabitate with Tyson (Daniel Diemer), a sweet but hapless young man who Percy\u2019s mother Sally (Virginia Kull) recognized as a cyclops and invited to live with them.<\/p>\n
But by the time he returns to Camp Half Blood (with Tyson reluctantly in tow, much to Annabeth\u2019s chagrin), Percy discovers his best friend Grover is missing, and activities director Chiron has been ousted, with the gods having installed the sadistic Tantalus (a scruffy, yellow-toothed Timothy Simons) as the new second-in-command to Mr. D (Jason Mantzoukas). According to Dionysus, someone has poisoned Thalia\u2019s Tree (a magical beacon that protects Camp Half Blood), and as the son of the titan Kronos, the gods suspect Chiron may be the culprit.<\/p>\n
Desperate to find Grover, save the camp from imminent destruction, and clear Chiron\u2019s name, Percy demands to be sent on a quest to search for the golden fleece, an artifact from Greek myth that can cure any illness. But when Tantalus assigns the quest to camp bully Clarisse (Dior Goodjohn), Percy and Annabeth embark on a rogue mission to find the fleece first, racing against not only Clarisse, but Luke (Charlie Bushnell), the traitorous son of Hermes, who seeks to use the fleece to resurrect Kronos.<\/p>\n
This isn\u2019t the first time \u201cSea of Monsters\u201d has been adapted for the small screen, and though the 2013 film did make a concerted effort to course-correct from the many inaccuracies of its predecessor, an hour and forty-five minutes just isn\u2019t enough time to truthfully adapt a novel that sizably expanded Riordan\u2019s already dense world of demigods and monsters. But thanks to the show\u2019s one-book-per-season approach, \u201cPercy Jackson and the Olympians\u201d explores Percy, Annabeth, and Grover with depth and emotional honesty that clearly evokes Riordan\u2019s novels: the series is so faithful to its source material that episode titles match the book chapters.<\/p>\n
But where season one laid the necessary groundwork for Percy\u2019s new world and its rules, season two turns up the heat on Percy and his friends as they battle not only Luke and his potentially world-ending plans, but also as they navigate increasingly complex interpersonal relationships, keep secrets from each other, and juggle conflicting loyalties with pressure from their godly parents.<\/p>\n
At the center of it all is Walker Scobell\u2019s Percy (often at his comic best when opposite Simhadri\u2019s Grover), whose self-deprecating humor and unflinching loyalty continue to make him a lovable, effortlessly charming hero even as he\u2019s challenged in new ways: namely, being passed over for the quest in favor of Clarisse. In addition to being a welcome (arguably necessary) subversion of the \u201cchosen one\u201d trope that plagues the YA fantasy genre, exploring Percy\u2019s indignance at being passed over for a mission to save camp allows Scobell to show off his range, delivering an increasingly ferocious performance that balances rightful indignance with Percy\u2019s brash, youthful confidence.<\/p>\n
But while Scobell may shine when riffing with Grover or clashing with Clarisse, he\u2019s undoubtedly at his best when he\u2019s sharing the screen with Leah Sava\u2019 Jeffries\u2019 Annabeth. Though she may insist to the Gray Sisters (Sandra Bernhard, Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho) that he\u2019s *not* her boyfriend, Scobell\u2019s Percy is obviously and delightfully besotted with her. Percy\u2019s early, unflinching dedication to Annabeth is not only an endearing showcase of Scobell\u2019s capacity as an actor, but also a chance for Jeffries to explore Annabeth\u2019s interiority and her reservations about opening up to him.<\/p>\n
Scobell is certainly no slouch, but it\u2019s Jeffries who truly shines in season two of \u201cPercy Jackson,\u201d as the series dives headfirst into unpacking Annabeth\u2019s harsh childhood and her past on the run with Luke and Thalia (Tamara Smart). Annabeth is a demanding ask for a young actress \u2013 as the daughter of Athena, goddess of wisdom, Annabeth has a dizzying intellect and an emotional maturity far beyond her years. Jeffries\u2019 Annabeth is guarded but earnest, longing to open up to Percy but unable to reconcile her emotional impulses with the cold logic that fuels her duties as a demigod. Embuing Annabeth with a tense physicality representative of the emotional (and, if \u201cTitan\u2019s Curse\u201d is adapted next season, physical) weight on her shoulders, Jeffries is often at her best when Annabeth is in moments of high emotion: recounting her past to Percy or squaring off with Luke, whose betrayal continues to haunt Annabeth well into the season.<\/p>\n
Outside of Percy, Annabeth, and Grover (who is mostly sidelined by the narrative), Clarisse is season two\u2019s emotional standout, as her race against Percy for the fleece becomes a personal quest to make her father, Ares (Adam Copeland, in another brief but memorable guest spot), proud and prove herself a worthy daughter of the god of war. In one of the few changes to (or more accurately, expansions of) the novel, season two departs from Percy\u2019s first-person perspective to follow Clarisse on her parallel quest, lending much-needed emotional depth to an otherwise one-dimensional bully. More time with Clarisse also means more time aboard her warship, The CSS Birmingham, which doubles as the backdrop for one of the season\u2019s most impressive action sequences.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s the other strength of \u201cPercy Jackson and the Olympians\u201d season two: it *feels* like a Greek epic. Whether it\u2019s Clarisse\u2019s ironclad warship manned by a crew of ghosts, a Chariot race-turned-camp-siege involving a Mariah Carey song, or the cruise ship-esque opulence of Luke\u2019s floating fortress, The Princess Andromeda, season two delivers the massive scope, scale, and depth that \u201cSea of Monsters\u201d deserves. \u201cPercy Jackson and the Olympians\u201d\u2019 second outing is a vast, globetrotting adventure, and one whose trio of leads grow suitably older and more emotionally mature to navigate.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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THE GOOD \u2013 Rick Riordan\u2019s beloved novel is faithfully and meticulously adapted, and what few changes are made are done so in service of a more layered, well-rounded story. Scobell and Jeffries shine, and between the costumes, sets, stunts, and that gorgeous end credits sequence, it\u2019s clear this is a season crafted with love and an intent to honor the source material.<\/p>\n
THE BAD \u2013 Questionable casting of the Olympic pantheon and other mythological figures scattered throughout the series (Simons\u2019 Tantalus feels cartoonish and out of place among the otherwise humanized myths). Still, Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes is admittedly growing on me. Some of the young actors aren\u2019t as consistent as others (Goodjohn struggles when not opposite Copeland), and the script is particularly clunky in its lore dumps and exposition.<\/p>\n
THE EMMY PROSPECTS \u2013 None<\/p>\n
THE FINAL SCORE \u2013 8\/10<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE STORY \u2013 Season 2 of \u201cPercy Jackson and the Olympians\u201d follows the titular son of Poseidon\u2019s second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[99747,87274,99748,99749,99750,99751,99752,99753,4550,146,85,46,99754,99755,99756,1241,397,76132,1529,99757,9028,8443,62783,411,76133],"class_list":{"0":"post-167506","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-8-10","9":"tag-adam-copeland","10":"tag-aryan-simhadri","11":"tag-beatrice-kitsos","12":"tag-charlie-bushnell","13":"tag-dan-shotz","14":"tag-daniel-diemer","15":"tag-dior-goodjohn","16":"tag-disney","17":"tag-entertainment","18":"tag-il","19":"tag-israel","20":"tag-jason-mantzoukas","21":"tag-jonathan-e-steinberg","22":"tag-leah-sava-jeffries","23":"tag-lin-manuel-miranda","24":"tag-movies","25":"tag-percy-jackson-and-the-olympians","26":"tag-review","27":"tag-rick-riordan","28":"tag-streaming","29":"tag-television","30":"tag-timothy-simons","31":"tag-tv","32":"tag-walker-scobell"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}