Fallout season 2 lands Macauley Culkin for mystery role as Percy Jackson season 2 adds Andra Day to its Mount Olympus-sized cast

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Mon, 11 Nov 2024 12:54:56 +0000

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Fallout and Percy Jackson and the Olympians are returning for their second seasons next year, and both have big new additions to their casts.

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When it comes to the best Prime Video shows and best Disney Plus shows , Fallout and Percy Jackson and the Olympians sit comfortably on our lists.
With both expected to return for second seasons both platforms have unveiled
a brand new cast member for each show, with Macauley Culkin joining the post-apocalyptic drama and Andra Day joining Disneys Greek deity fantasy.

Premiering on Prime Video just this year, Fallout proved to be an authentic adaptation of the popular video game, making it one of Prime Videos top three most-watched titles. But although details of its second season have yet to be unveiled, Macaulay Culkins addition to the cast is confirmed and he'll allegedly be playing a crazy genius-type character, according to Deadline . Ella Purnell as Lucy in Prime Video's Fallout. (Image credit: JoJo Whilden/Prime Video)

Culkins new character will join an already star-studded cast featuring Ella Purnell, Aaron Moten, Kyle MacLachlan, Moiss Arias, and Walton Goggins -
whose Outstanding Lead Actor Emmy nomination was just one of 17 that Fallout accumulated this year. Given the successful run of its first season which attracted 65 million viewers in its first 16 days, Fallout season two sure does have a reputation to live up to.

However, Fallout is just one of the shows on the best streaming services returning with an updated cast as Oscar nominee Andra Day is set to play the role of Athena in the next season of Percy Jackson and the Olympians on
Disney Plus . Day will step into the shoes of the Greek goddess of wisdom an integral character in Rick Riordans series of novels playing the mother of Annabeth Chase (Leah Sava Jeffries), one of Percys (Walker Scobell) closest friends.

The news that Day would be joining the cast of the Disney Plus show was announced at the D23 event in Brazil, followed by a video (see below) posted to social media with Day in character. Disney also announced more cast
members for season two including Tamara Smart and Daniel Deimer, who are
lined up to play Thalia Grace (the daughter of Zeus) and Percys half-brother Tyson.

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Despite the absence of release date details, we know that season two of Percy Jackson and the Olympians will be based on Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters , the second book in Riordans fantasy series. One year after the events of the first season, Percy returns to Camp Halfblood to find that its under threat from Kronos. Along with his shifting friendships and the missing case of his friend Grover (Aryan Simhadri), Percy learns that he has a long-lost half-brother Tyson, who happens to be a cyclops.

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