The Season 2 premiere jumps in with a kind of comfortable momentum, like everyone involved remembered exactly what worked last time and decided to lean into it. Season 1 set a solid foundation—faithful tone, strong young cast, and a clear understanding of the world—and this episode moves forward without trying to reinvent anything. It just builds. Instead of dramatic course corrections, tonal shifts, it just has more confidence.

Walker Scobell returns as Percy with an ease that fits the character’s growth. He still has the same earnestness, the same quick flashes of irritation when monsters show up uninvited, and the same deadpan humor that made him work in Season 1. He plays older Percy without losing the kid energy, which is the thing you want most in a story that’s still fundamentally

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