What a joyful ride Season 2 of Percy Jackson and the Olympiansis! There is adventure, action, humour, heartbreak, and growing up in a complete package. Based on the second book of Rick Riordan’s popular fantasy novel series, The Sea of Monsters, Season 2 finds the young demigod and son of Poseidon (Toby Stephens), Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), returning to Camp Half-Blood with a classmate, Tyson (Daniel Diemer), who just happens to be a Cyclops.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians (English) Season 2
Episodes: 8
Creators: Rick Riordan, Jonathan E. Steinberg
Starring: Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, Aryan Simhadri, Charlie Bushnell, Dior Goodjohn, Daniel Diemer
Storyline: Percy goes to the Sea of Monsters to retrieve the Golden Fleece and save Camp Half-Blood from the vengeful Kronos
Runtime: 32 – 47 minutes
Percy’s mother, Sally (Virginia Kull), recognising Tyson as a Cyclops, takes care of him and sends him with Percy to Camp Half-Blood, where demigods can be safe from attacking monsters.
Percy’s best friend, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) is acting strangely while his other bestie and protector, the satyr Grover (Aryan Simhadri), seems to have vanished. Six years ago, Thalia Grace (Tamara Smart), the daughter of Zeus, sacrificed herself to save Annabeth, Grover and Luke (Charlie Bushnell), the duplicitous son of Hermes, from the Furies. Zeus turned Thalia into a tree that protected Camp Half-Blood from attack.
Now the tree is poisoned, and attacks by monsters have become more frequent. The only way to revive the tree and ensure Camp Half-Blood’s safety is to retrieve the Golden Fleece, with its healing properties, from the Sea of Monsters.
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Through an empathy link, Percy finds that Grover went in search of Pan and has been captured by the Cyclops Polyphemus (Aleks Paunovic), the guardian of the Golden Fleece. Since Polyphemus cannot see too well, Grover has disguised himself in a wedding dress.
Though Percy tries to enlist for the quest to get the Golden Fleece, it is the bossy Clarisse (Dior Goodjohn), daughter of Ares, who gets the job. Chiron (Glynn Turman), the activities director of Camp Half-Blood has been temporarily replaced by the sulky King Tantalus (Timothy Simons) who is only interested in getting the chariot track up and running, never mind the rampaging Laestrygonians.
Getting to The Sea of Monsters involves deadly dangers including escaping unscathed from the Sirens’ song and not falling for Circe’s (Rosemarie DeWitt) blandishments. There is also the threat of the King of Titans, Kronos using the fleece to regenerate and take over the world.
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The eight episodes zip by in a flurry of action and humour, meticulous world-building and Greek myth in excellently accessible bites. The cast, especially the young leads, give spirited performances in a show that is organically inclusive. When Season 3 is announced in the middle of that excellent art deco end-credit sequence, one can only hug oneself with joy.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is currently streaming on Jio Hotstar
