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Elisa Rathrock
When Arcane Season 1 launched in 2021, it quickly became one of Netflix's biggest shows of the year. The animated series based on lore from the popular PC game League of Legends featured high-octane action, a dynamic soundtrack (anyone else still listening to Imagine Dragons and JID's "Enemy" on repeat three years later?), and a moving story between two sisters. In addition to being a hit among League of Legends fans and non-video gamers, the series won three Emmy Awards and eight Annie Awards.
Arcane follows Vi (voiced by Hailee Steinfeld) and her younger sister, Jinx (voiced by Ella Purnell), who are arch enemies in League of Legends. They started off as loving siblings but, after a tragedy, ended up on opposite sides of a civil war between the wealthy city of Piltover and the slummy underbelly of Zaun. And this conflict is only going to worsen in Arcane Season 2.
On June 11, Netflix announced that Arcane will end with Season 2. "From the very beginning, since we started working on this project, we had a very specific ending in mind, which means the story of Arcane wraps up with this second season," series co-creator Christian Linke said in a League Dev Update. But Linke said Arcane is "just the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra."
The official teaser for Arcane Season 2 launched on June 11. It teases an epic battle between the Piltovans and the Zaunites, on a larger scale than anything we saw in Season 1. In the video, Caitlyn Kiramman (voiced by Katie Leung) lays out her three-part plan: "Locate Jinx. Dismantle shimmer. And neutralize any agents still loyal to Silco."
That's Singed, the diabolical doctor from Season 1, in the midst of a blood transfusion (or just extraction?), who checks his pocket watch and looks up to see some dangling monstrosity above him. It's not entirely clear, but everyone's best guess is that the beast is Vander, Vi and Jinx's adoptive father who died in Season 1, who is now being transformed into the undead werewolf Warwick, a playable character from League of Legends.
Arcane will be back for its second season in November 2024, Netflix announced in November 2023. November is a popular month for the series. Arcane Season 2 was announced back on Nov. 20, 2021, immediately following the release of the third and final part of its first season.
To keep Arcane fans content during the long wait for Season 2, Riot Games released a five-part docuseries called Arcane: Bridging the Rift. In five episodes that run between 20 and 30 minutes, the YouTube series follows the production of Arcane Season 1, from conception to animation to music. They're available for free on YouTube, and we've linked 'em below.
Arcane 1 Season Netflix Set in the utopian region of Piltover and the oppressed underground of Zaun, the story follows the origins of two iconic League champions-and the power that will tear them apart. 2021 TV14 Drama, Fantasy, Action & Adventure, Science Fiction Watchlist Where to Watch
Not only is the NFL playing on a Wednesday for only the third time since 1950, it brought on Netflix to carry the games. Netflix will stream two Christmas Day games globally as part of a three-year deal announced Wednesday as the league unveiled the regular-season schedule.
With the league continuing to make international inroads, including five games abroad this season, the prospect of partnering with Netflix was too good to pass up. Netflix has 270 million paid memberships in over 190 countries
Hans Schroeder, the executive vice president of NFL Media, said team owners meeting in March were presented with a plan where teams playing on Christmas Day would have their Week 16 games on Saturday, which would give them the same amount of prep time they normally have in a short week when playing on Sunday and Thursday.
The Jan. 13 AFC wild-card playoff game between the Miami Dolphins and Kansas City Chiefs on Peacock averaged 23 million, a record for the most-watched event on a streaming service. It also surpassed the audiences for the Saturday night wild-card playoff games that were shown on NBC in two of the past three years.
In a press release, GKIDS, the indie distributor behind The Boy and the Heron's upcoming physical media release, revealed it had picked up the global videogram and digital transactional rights (excluding China) to season one of Arcane, with "a full product array" ranging from digital to premium editions, including a 4K version.
To celebrate the announcement, GKIDS and Riot shared the artwork for the physical release that will hit shelves at some point this year. The image features several familiar faces from the animated series, including League of Legends mainstays Jinx and Vi, whose relationship is central to the show's plot.
"GKIDS is thrilled to be partnering with our friends at Riot to bring the global hit series Arcane to fans worldwide," said GKIDS founder and CEO Eric Beckman. "We are MONSTER fans of the series, and our team is having a blast collaborating with the creatives at Riot and Fortiche to put together an amazing package for the fans. This project was dreamt up on the lawn by the lake at Annecy, so we are extra happy to be able to announce this collaboration at the festival and true home of animation."
The first season of Arcane premiered in November 2021 to widespread critical acclaim. IGN gave the show a rave review, calling it "a masterpiece," with "compelling characters, an endearing story, and fascinating lore and worldbuilding, as well as striking visuals that break new ground for what is possible in TV animation."
Arcane also became the first streaming series to take home an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program while triumphing in three other categories. It also swept the Annie Awards, which honors excellence in animation, with nine wins, including an award for Best Mature Animated Television Broadcast Production.
Following the end of the first season, Netflix and Riot Games announced that a second season was in production. Arkane Season 2 debuts in November. A teaser for the sophomore run seemingly confirmed a major fan theory about where the show is heading, and some fans are even theorizing that a time jump could be on the cards.
Whatever lies ahead, Arcane fans can rest assured that the series is going to be preserved in a physical format, joining the likes of Netflix's Wednesday, Hulu's Prey, and WandaVision, Loki, and The Mandalorian (which were the first Disney+ shows to secure a disc release but later expanded to include several more titles).
Still, while one of the best Netflix shows' time is drawing to a close, at least we're getting another installment. Arcane is one of our favorite series of recent years, and we know Netflix, Riot Games, and Fortiche are crafting something special for its first League of Legends (LoL) TV adaptation. We'll get onto why Arcane is only the beginning for LoL's animated franchise later.
Anyway, if you want to know more about Arcane season 2, we're here to help. Below, you'll find all of the latest intel on the TV project, including its release month, confirmed cast, trailer, plot specifics, and more. Full spoilers follow for Arcane season 1 on the world's best streaming service.
Season 2's first trailer suggests that none of them lived to fight another day, so we might not see/hear from these characters' voice actors again. That said, the teaser's footage could be a misdirect in order to preserve some of its biggest story secrets.
One thing is for sure: there'll be one big-name player who, likely due to spoilers, hasn't been officially announced as part of the season 2 roster. Seen above, Arcane season 2's gorgeous new poster has hinted at this fan-favorite character's return, but all we'll say for now is don't expect them to be a hero this time around.
That isn't the only thing that could divide Caitlyn and Vi. Responding to a fan on X/Twitter (see below) about whether Caitlyn knows that it was Vi and her gang who blew up Jayce's lab in season 1's opening act, Arcane scriptwriter Amanda Overton revealed that wasn't the case. Will Caitlyn learn the truth in season 2? Place your bets now.
Away from that duo, expect the brewing war between Piltover and Zaun to take center stage. Tensions were already simmering between the nations before Jinx's reckless act, so a full-blown conflict is ready to erupt. During a Reddit Ask Me Anything session, Linke summed up this season's overarching narrative with the word "war", which certainly plays into the first trailer's ominous tones.
Additionally, Yee teased (via Netflix Queue) how the battle lines have already been drawn heading into the next chapter, saying: "We ended season 1 by really pushing a lot of the characters in the show as far as we could from each other. Figuring out how to deal with this puzzle, where all the pieces have now been split up and tossed to the four winds, is going to be the main thrust of season 2."
There could also be room for some flashback sequences involving deceased characters. Responding to a Reddit fan's question about whether we'll see Silco and Vander's friendship pre-betrayal, Linke said "you will". Color us excited.
Elaborating on what we can expect from various characters' journeys next time out, Linke told the Academy of Interactive Arts and Science's YouTube channel: "Season 2 was always this thing that made us think 'let's take them further and explore the corner of their psyche and identities we haven't seen'. The challenge was to go to places where they've never been to. I'm excited about what we're doing in that regard. I also hope it makes every League [of Legends] player proud and every animation or fantasy nerd excited about our characters". November can't come soon enough.
Elaborating on why the duo are calling time on the hit series, Arcane co-creator Christian Linke said: ""From the very beginning, since we started working on this project, we had a very specific ending in mind, which means the story of Arcane wraps up with this second season."
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