The very lengthy wait is sort of over, and we’re so able to get again into the ring!
Heels Season 1 set issues up fantastically for the story to proceed, and at the moment, Starz launched the trailer and key artwork for Heels Season 2.
Let me let you know, this season doesn’t disappoint!
Premiering on Friday, July 28 at midnight (ET) on the STARZ app, Heels Season 2 makes its linear debut on Stars at 10/9c on the identical day.
Starring Stephen Amell (Arrow) and Alexander Ludwig (Vikings), the small-town sports activities drama collection relies on a wrestling league in rural Georgia and the household dynamics that introduced it to life.
Heels is aptly named after the wrestling time period for a villain or antagonist. Most tales focus on heroes vs. villains, however in wrestling, it’s faces vs. heels.
Season two brings followers again to the family-owned wrestling group, Duffy Wrestling League (DWL), the place brothers and rivals Jack (Amell) and Ace Spade (Ludwig), proceed to battle over their late father’s legacy and their particular person variations of success whereas additionally working to search out their very own identification as a face or a heel.
It won’t be a easy journey for both of them, and there are numerous surprises alongside the best way because the brothers discover their approach again to one another, their households, and themselves.
There’s a lot excellent news concerning this season, and it actually does invoke emotions of nostalgia akin to Friday Evening Lights whereas masking subjects like the consequences of trauma on communities, discovering private identification, and ladies taking the lead in each aspect.
The Spade boys are struggling to face within the huge shadow of their father, Thomas, and the burden of that far-reaching shadow isn’t simply shaken.
Crystal’s world cracks broad open as she finds success in and out of doors of the ring. Her reputation affords her wonderful alternatives, and he or she’ll need to observe her coronary heart, which additionally discovers love.
Heels is centered round a small-town group the place everybody is aware of one another and everybody on the town follows the saga of the Heels and Faces within the DWL, and extra characters will probably be showcased this season, bringing that feeling to the display screen.
Heels Season 2 additionally stars Alison Luff (New Amsterdam) as Staci Spade, Mary McCormack (Deep Influence, The L Phrase) as Willie Day, and Kelli Berglund (The Goldbergs, The Animal Kingdom) as Crystal Tyler.
Allen Maldonado (Home Social gathering, The Marvel Years, The Final O.G.) as Rooster Robbins, Chris Bauer (Gaslit, Survivor’s Regret, True Blood) as Wild Invoice Hancock, Trey Tucker (The Outpost) as Bobby Pin, and Robby Ramos (Chicago P.D.) as Diego Cottonmouth spherical out the core characters.
Additionally in focus this season are Alice Barrett Mitchell (Billions) as Carol Spade, Roxton Garcia (Reminensce) as Thomas Spade, David James Elliott (JAG) as Tom Spade, Joel Murray (Mad Males) as Eddie Earl, CM Punk (Mayans) as Ricky Rabies, and AJ Mendez (Ladies of Wrestling, WWE) as Elle Dorado.
New solid members embody Josh Segarra (Scream VI, Arrow, The Different Two) as Brooks Rizzo, and Emmy Raver-Lampman as Jen Lussier.
Heels showrunner and govt producer Mike O’Malley (Survivor’s Regret, Shameless) additionally portrays Charlie Gully on the collection.
Michael Waldron (Loki, Dr. Unusual within the Multiverse of Insanity, Rick and Morty) is the present creator.
Christopher Donnelly (By Sidney Lumet), Pete Segal (Tommy Boy, Shameless), Patrick Walmsley (JT LeRoy), and Julie Yorn (Hell or Excessive Water) additionally function govt producers on the collection.
Heels is produced via O’Malley Ink and LBI Leisure in affiliation with Lionsgate Tv for STARZ.
All of that housekeeping apart, it’s time to take a look at the trailer.
If this doesn’t get your juices pumping, nothing will!
We’ll be reviewing the collection weekly, so tell us within the feedback how excited are for Heels to return!
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