Dreams Die First

Clear your schedule: The Assassin returns on November 6. All six episodes of Season 2 arrive at once on Prime Video in the UK and Ireland, and the show also streams on Stan in Australia. Keeley Hawes and Freddie Highmore are back as the most dysfunctional mother-and-son pair on TV. If the first trailer is anything to go by, this family reunion will be more dangerous, and funnier, than the first one. With the premiere two weeks away, now is the moment to catch up, get excited and add the series to your watchlist.

First, a quick refresher if your memory of the first season has faded. Created and written by brothers Harry and Jack Williams (The Tourist, The Missing, Boat Story), The Assassin premiered in July 2025. Hawes plays Julie Green, a retired contract killer living quietly on a remote Greek island. That peace ends when her estranged son Edward, played by Highmore, turns up wanting answers about who his father is. Julie's past soon catches up with them both, and the two are forced to flee the island together. They end up chasing a conspiracy across Europe that tests their already fragile relationship. Along the way, viewers met Kayla Cross (Shalom Brune-Franklin), Edward's sharp and determined fiancée, and her volatile brother Ezra (Devon Terrell), both children of Alan Dale's powerful Aaron Cross. The supporting cast also included Gina Gershon as Marie Bertrand, David Dencik as Jasper de Voogdt and Gerald Kyd as Luka. The mix of Taken-style action, dark comedy and family therapy worked. The show became Prime Video's highest-rated UK original drama of 2025, which made a renewal very likely.

So where does Season 2 pick up? According to the official synopsis, Julie and Edward have just come back from a disastrous trip to Berlin. They are estranged again after a mysterious falling-out that nobody wants to talk about. Julie has gone back to her old work as an assassin while also trying something just as risky: dating. Edward has married Kayla, but their dream honeymoon is hijacked when she is taken hostage. With nowhere else to turn, he has to call the one person he swore he'd never need again. "If anyone can get this done, it's your mother," he is told in the trailer. Prime Video sums up the season as "a honeymoon, a headhunter and one very dysfunctional reunion." To get Kayla back, Julie and Edward will have to take down Spain's corrupt underworld, and try not to kill each other first.

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