The world of is back, with a thunderous second season of on Netflix. An eventful and surprisingly good first season back in 2021 took over streaming trends like a storm, with an engaging story of the class divide, sibling rivalry, and a dubious ‘hextech’—all based on the popular game by Riot Games in 2009. But as we all know, seldom does a sequel season eclipse a solid first outing.
.. and the new one did start off slow.
The first twenty minutes of the new season were painful to sit through. Especially, after the cliffhanger where they ended the last one. There are only a few moments you wish Netflix added the 1.
5x speed function on your TV apps, and this was one such time for me. But then, the season comes alive and how! The fancy top world of Piltover is given a taste of what it means to live in Zaun—the poor counterpart that runs beneath Piltover—as it reels over a brutal attack by the now empowered and deranged Jinx, voiced by the brilliant Ella Purnell. Jinx is no longer the little girl we once knew as Powder (younger version voiced by Mia Sinclair Jenness).
And her elder sister Vi, portrayed by Hailee Steinfeld, comes to terms with that, launching an offensive with a team led by the revenge-hungry enforcer, Caitlyn, played by the excellent Katie Leung. This season’s standout character for me was Ellen Thomas’s portrayal of the warlord Ambessa Medarda. She was introduced much later in the first season as a brawler chief who wanted to weaponise hextech, but t.