Prime Video Renews Dark Spy Thriller The Assassin for Season 2

Prime Video has picked up a second season of the six-part British thriller The Assassin, which starred Keeley Hawes opposite Freddie Highmore. Critics gave the first season a mostly positive response with a 74% score on Rotten Tomatoes, while audience ratings lagged at 43%, even as the show rose to No.

1 on Prime Video’s U.K. charts. Season 1 followed Highmore’s Edward to Greece, where he sought answers about his parentage and met Julie, a former assassin played by Hawes. Her violent past soon caught up with them, sending the pair on the run and drawing in Edward’s fiancée Kayla, played by Shalom Brune-Franklin.

Development on Season 2 began in November, and the streamer has confirmed the return of Hawes, Highmore, Brune-Franklin and Devon Terrell, with creators and writers Harry and Jack Williams back in charge. The writers already have a story planned for the new run.

United Kingdom

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