'Rogue Heroes' Season 2 First Look Takes Us Back to the Front

The BBC has released first-look images from Season 2 of the surprise hit drama SAS Rogue Heroes, which dropped the “SAS” for the American market and streams on MGM+ as Rogue Heroes. The series, Steven Knight’s first BBC drama after the end of Peaky Blinders, takes his trademark dark' n gritty period piece realism and applies it to the traditional World War II drama, tracing the origins of the British Army Special Air Service (SAS) during the Western Desert Campaign of World War II.

Initially based on Ben MacIntyre’s 2016 non-fiction SAS Rogue Heroes, Season 1 focused on Lieutenant Archibald David Stirling, played by Sex Education’s Connor Swindells, and his idea of forming the unit after his regiment’s defeat in Cairo. The series co-stars Jack O’Connell (Skins) as co-founder Lieutenant Robert Blair Mayne, better known as Paddy, Dominic West (The Crown) as Lieutenant Colonel Dudley Clarke, the real-life mastermind behind some of the British Army’s crazier World War II stunts, and Sofia Boutella (The Kingsman) as the fictional Eve Mansour*, the Deputy Head of French intelligence in Cairo.

(*In reality, women were only first admitted into the SAS in 2018. No, that’s not a typo.)