'The Rig' Will Launch Season 2 New Year's Weekend

Amazon Studio's Scottish series, The Rig, will return to Prime Video with Season 2 just in time for hangover viewing. The series, which initially debuted the first weekend of January 2023, returns almost exactly two years later, and sadly, it's still not safe to get back in the water. Emily Hampshire (Schitt's Creek) once again joins Martin Compston (Line Of Duty) and Iain Glen (Mrs. Wilson) as part of the Kinloch Bravo team, heading back into the oceans to dig for oil, only to have Mother Earth fight back.

The first season took three years to launch; it was greenlit during the 2020 pandemic, filmed in Scotland right when Lockdown 3 ended, and then sat on the shelf from mid-2021 to January 2023. An attempt at eco-horror, The Rig's first season was marred by its willingness to pull one too many punches. The idea behind The Rig was sound; as Gandalf so eloquently said, "They dug too greedily and too deep." It was more about the execution that turned it into a semi-rote "Save the Earth" morality play.

Considering how few people tuned into The Rig Season 1 in the U.S., it was slightly surprising Amazon greenlit a second season. However, the series, which was the inaugural production out of Amazon's Scotland studios, did well in the U.K. We have our friends across the pond to thank for giving the series a second chance to make a first impression. Will Season 2 do better? Check out the trailer and decide for yourself.