Halo season 2

 Viewed more or less back-to-back with the first season, which i saw at the end of 2025, it's time to dive into some more sci-fi action.

 

And that is the second season of Halo, based on the videogame franchise of the same name.

 

This is also the first of a new format I will be doing for series, anime's and movies.  Instead of putting down long synopsises, I'm going to take the route of the more opinionated views on a series...

 

The second season starts with a short aftermath of the first season's finale, and how Master Chief and Cortana are seperated again after he allowed her to take over his body.  A timegap is then spanned, and we find the Spartan's in action on a planet about to be glassed by the Covenant, and John discovering that it was a training ground before the planet is spectacularly glassed, awesome visuals there for certain.

 

Meeting with Halsey's replacement, he is made the fool, even though he believes Covenant forces, let by Makee whom he thought dead, are coming for Reach.  He looks for the Marine, Perez, that didn't back his story up after saving her, and then the big battle begins.  The aliens where indeed already on Reach, and now the glassing of the planet has begun.  Of course, the higher ups make away, and during some intense fighting episodes to try and save as many as possible, Silver Team is decimated: Vannak is killed, Riz get seriously injured resulting in her quitting the job, and Kai is missing.

 

For there onwards, we have three main storylines: Master Chief hunting for Makee and the Halo while out for revenge, the UNSC planning all kinds of weird stuff with a new generation of Spartans trained by the reappeared Kai, and Soren and his motley bunch looking for their son while discovering all kinds of things in the underbelly of the military.  As both Master Chief and Makee find their keystones, they face off in a spiritual way and their opposing beliefs.  On Onyx, Halsey, Kwan and Miranda discover a laboratory of the Forerunners, who created the keystones, as Ackerson realises he has been played by the government and the goal was to create a planet destroying weapon.  So politics within politics are playing up now and allegiances start to shift.

 

And then a spore is released, causing people to mutate and grow parasites that turn them incredibly violent, and this makes some more of them fall to the virus and each other including Soren's wife Laera, and Halsey who is put in cryosleep by her daughter to save her later.  They are called the Flood as a shaman reveals to Kwan in a vision, as Makee and Master Chief enter a Forerunner building... and the season ends.

 

And with that cliffhanger, so does the series actually, as it wasn't renewed for a third season by Netflix.  Because Netflix being Netflix I guess, even with high appreciation levels on various metacritic websites, though it's producing studio is still looking for a new home for the third season to be made.  I do hope they find one, as there are a LOT of open ends still around, if not to say that not a single arc has actually been resolved at all this season...

 

But it is definitly worth watching, the visuals are stunning, the action is top notch, and the glassing of Sanctuary or the defence of Reach are sci-fi moments that you will definitly see back in YouTube clips and all over the coming years for being really epic cinematic moments...

 

So let's keep our fingers crossed that third season will eventually materialize!