The Horror of 'Time' is Driven Home in the Season 2 Trailer

Renewing a show initially planned as a limited, closed-ended series can be risky, but for Jimmy McGovern’s Time, it took what was a one-hit wonder and turned it into a tour-de-force series. Season 1, released in 2021, starred Sean Bean (Game of Thrones) as the newly imprisoned Mark Cobden sent away for killing a pedestrian while driving drunk, and Stephen Graham (This Is England) as Prison Officer Eric McNally. A grim look at the reality of life in prison, Time examines how those within can easily fall prey to criminal activity and the strength of character to find one’s way back. The series ended with Bean’s Mark released, while Graham’s Eric wound up on the prisoner side of the line. With the show’s renewal for Season 2, McGovern has now set out to create an anthology examining different facets of the system, with Season 2 set in a women’s facility.

The new season stars Tamara Lawrance (The Long Song) as Abi Cochrane, Jodie Whittaker (Doctor Who) as Orla O’Riordan, and Bella Ramsey (Game of Thrones) as Kelsey Morgan. Siobhan Finneran (Downton Abbey) provides continuity as the crossover character from Season 1, prison chaplain Marie-Louise O’Dell. Abi, Orla, and Kelsey arrive in prison on the same day; three women from three different worlds, who wind up as each other’s support system.

The BBC released the first trailer ahead of the show’s debut in the U.K., as well as the show’s opening minutes, revealing why each is arriving that day and where they are coming from.