Plot: In the second season, Percy returns to Camp Half-Blood a year later, where he learns that it is under threat from the forces of Kronos and Grover has gone missing, and must venture into the Sea of Monsters to find the Golden Fleece.
Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympians was alright.
Pros: At least this second season succeed fixed everything at second film did. How it continues expanding the world of Percy Jackson. Clarisse La Rae & Tyson were highlights of this season. I like there journey and the amount of absurdity that followed & how they used the Golden Fleece.
Cons: The bad green-screen special effects & armours were not anything special. It does rushed through building tension between Perey & Luke. Most of the newest additions were underutilised in my opinion. The final army battle was disappointing & I failed to get invested with the stakes.
Genre: Adventure, Comedy drama, Fantasy
Created by Rick Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg
Showrunners: Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz
Based on Percy Jackson & the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Starring: Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries & Aryan Simhadri.
Their Music composer: Bear McCreary
Composers: Sparks & Shadows
Executive producers: Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz, Rick Riordan, Rebecca Riordan, Ellen Goldsmith-Vein, Jeremy Bell, D. J. Goldberg, Bert Salke, James Bobin, Jim Rowe, Monica Owusu-Breen, Anders Engström, Jet Wilkinson, Craig Silverstein
Producer: John Catron
Production location: Vancouver, British Columbia
Cinematography: Pierre Gill, Jules O’Loughlin
Editors: Stewart Schill, Colleen Rafferty, Curtis Thurber
Production companies: Co-Lab21, The Gotham Group, Mythomagic, Quaker Moving Pictures, 20th Television
Network: Disney+
Casts & Characters:
Main
- Walker Scobell as Percy Jackson, a young demigod and son of Poseidon.
- Leah Sava Jeffries as Annabeth Chase, a daughter of Athena who has been training at Camp Half-Blood for five years
- Jeffries’s cousin Marissa Lior Winans portrays a younger Annabeth (season 2)
- Aryan Simhadri as Grover Underwood, Percy’s best friend, protector, and a satyr.
- Charlie Bushnell as Luke Castellan (season 2; recurring season 1), a cunning son of Hermes and the counselor of the Hermes cabin who is later revealed to be working with Kronos[10]
- Dior Goodjohn as Clarisse La Rue (season 2; recurring season 1), a strong-willed daughter of Ares who bullies Percy
- Daniel Diemer as Tyson (season 2), Percy’s Cyclops half-brother
Recurring
- Virginia Kull as Sally Jackson, Percy’s selfless mother
- Glynn Turman as Chiron / Mr. Brunner, a centaur and Activities Director of Camp Half-Blood. While the character mainly uses an enchanted wheelchair to disguise himself among humans, the character has a disability in the form of a brace in his left hind leg as a war injury. The creators made this change to address his disability, though they noted it would be “just a detail” during the first season.
- Nick Boraine as Kronos, the King of the Titans who appears as a voice in Percy’s dreams[15]
- Jason Mantzoukas as Dionysus / Mr. D, the god of wine and curmudgeonly camp director of Camp Half-Blood. He is in this position as punishment from Zeus for chasing an off-limits nymph and has to substitute soda when he is also not allowed to have any wine.
- Adam Copeland as Ares (season 1; guest season 2), the arrogant and daring god of war[16]
- Timothy Simons as King Tantalus (season 2), a spirit from the Fields of Punishment, a son of Zeus, and the interim Activities Director of Camp Half-Blood cursed with eternal hunger and thirst ever since he revealed the Olympians’ secrets revolving around their nectar and ambrosia and cooked his son Pelops to serve as food to the Olympians
- Beatrice Kitsos as Alison Simms (season 2), a daughter of Apollo and graduate demigod from Camp Half-Blood who lives in the human world and sides with Kronos’ army. She is an original character created for the series.
- Kevin Chacon (season 2) as Chris Rodriguez, a son of Hermes and Luke’s half-brother.
- Tamara Smart as Thalia Grace (season 2), the powerful and rebellious daughter of Zeus who was turned into a tree after sacrificing herself to save Annabeth, Luke, and Grover
Guest
- Threnody Tsai as Sarah, a wheelchair-using demigod and skilled archer.
- Heather Feeney (season 2) as Pythia, the Oracle of Delphi whose mummified remains are in Camp Half-Blood
- Lin-Manuel Miranda as Hermes, the messenger of the gods and the god of thieves and travelers who is charismatic and boisterous
- Toby Stephens as Poseidon, Percy’s father and god of the sea who is stubborn and impulsive.
- Courtney B. Vance[c] (season 2) as Zeus, the ferocious King of the Olympians whose thunderbolt was stolen in the first season.
- Kristen Schaal, Margaret Cho, and Sandra Bernhard respectively as Tempest, Wasp, and Anger (season 2), the three Gray Sisters who operate an Olympian taxi service in the Greater New York City area
- Marlo Marolle as Mark, a son of Ares
- Mark Gibbon, Dan Payne, Daniel Cudmore, and Paul Cheng respectively as Joe Bob, Marrow Sucker, Skull Eater, and Brain Biter (season 2), four Laestrygonians that are allied with Kronos. Cudmore previously portrayed a Manticore in scenes that were cut from Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013).
- Gibbon also portrays Chet Jr. (season 2)
- Sage Linder as Bronte (season 2), a daughter of Athena
- Aiden Howard as Aidan (season 2), a son of Aphrodite and member of Kronos’ army
- Andra Day as Athena (season 2), Annabeth’s mother and the goddess of wisdom
- Aleks Paunovic as Polyphemus (season 2), a Cyclops son of Poseidon and guardian of the Golden Fleece who was previously blinded by Odysseus. Paunovic previously portrayed a Cyclops in the film Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) alongside Derek Mears.
- Rosemarie DeWitt as Circe / C.C. (season 2), a sorceress who Percy and Annabeth encounter in the Sea of Monsters
- Jasmine Vega as Hylla Ramírez-Arellano (season 2), a concierge at Circe’s spa
- Andrew Kavadas as Blackbeard (season 2), a historic pirate captain and son of Ares who was previously turned into a guinea pig by Circe
- Dayna Ambrosio as the uncredited voice of the Sirens (season 2), nymphs who draw heroes to their death with alluring music
- Adam Swain as Ellis Wakefield (season 2), a son of Ares
Series author Rick Riordan makes cameo appearances in the first season as a teacher in the headmasters’ office at Yancy Academy and as a statue at Aunty Em’s Garden Gnome Emporium.
I still recommend watching this season on Disney+.
Rating: 6 out of 10 Stars
Ryan Balkwill:
Resident TV reviewer,
Level Best Art Cafe