'Time' Season 2 Pictures Reveal Bella Ramsey Character Bombshell

One day, BritBox will hit critical mass and release a show so big, so popular, so mainstream that it will stop being that streaming service people look at me funny when I start gushing about how great it is. When that day comes, the world will discover the truly stupendous BBC gems currently tucked away on it, like The Responder, Sherwood, and Time. At present, I am hoping that somehow, the triple threat cast of the latter's Season 2 run — Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey, and Tamara Lawrance — will manage to do what the double whammy of Season 1's Sean Bean and Stephen Graham couldn't, namely make it that breakout hit.

Written and created by Jimmy McGovern, Time began as a deep dive into the English penal system and how it breaks down just about anyone who enters it from either end of the spectrum. In Season 1, Bean was a prisoner convicted of manslaughter after killing a bicyclist while drunk driving; Graham was a stand-up corrections officer whose slowly collapsing life made him vulnerable to the temptations of the system. Season 2 will continue the story as an anthology series, connected by Siobhan Finneran's character, prison chaplain Marie-Louise, this time moving focus to the women's facility.

Unlike Season 1, which was one prisoner learning to survive as a lone wolf, Season 2 will focus on those who survive via a communal strategy. Whittaker, Ramsey, and Lawrance are three women who are all booked on the same day for three completely unconnected crimes and who slowly bond over the course of their time. However, the series apparently kept one twist under wraps.