‘Chad Powers’ Fans Finally Get an Exact Return Date, and Hulu Just Dropped the First Look Photos

Glen Powell’s sports comedy has spent months building buzz since its breakout debut, and the wait for more Russ Holliday chaos has felt endless for fans of the South Georgia Catfish. The show earned Powell Best Actor nominations at both the Golden Globes and Satellite Awards, a level of recognition that turned a small screen experiment into one of Hulu’s biggest recent hits. That success made a follow up feel inevitable, but exactly when it would arrive stayed a mystery for a long time.

Season one left things on a genuinely tense note. The finale saw Ricky uncover that Chad Powers was really disgraced quarterback Russ Holliday, and Russ warned that exposing him could jeopardize the entire football season and Coach Hudson’s reputation. That cliffhanger is exactly why the announcement everyone has been waiting for feels so significant now that it has finally landed.

The Hollywood Reporter confirmed that ‘Chad Powers’ Season 2 has an official return date and a fresh batch of first look photos to go with it. All six episodes will drop at once on Thursday, September 3, streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney Plus, a notable shift from the weekly rollout that carried Season 1 from its September 30 premiere through its October finale. Seven first look images accompanied the reveal, giving fans their clearest glimpse yet at Russ back in disguise.

According to the new season’s logline, Chad Powers is once again a star on the field, but his strange behavior off it has people paying closer attention. Coach Hudson and Gerry are growing suspicious, and as the walls close in on Russ’s lie, he and Danny realize the only person who can save the season and get the Catfish into the College Football Playoff is Ricky, the last person who wants to help them.

The returning cast reads like a reunion of the original ensemble. Powell reprises his dual role as Russ and Chad, with Perry Mattfeld back as Ricky, Quentin Plair as Coach Byrd, Wynn Everett as Tricia Yeager, Frankie Rodriguez as Danny and Steve Zahn as Coach Hudson, alongside Colton Ryan continuing as Gerry.

Behind the camera, the show remains rooted in its ESPN origins. ‘Chad Powers’ is based on the ‘Eli’s Places’ series from ESPN and Omaha Productions, co-created by Powell and writer Michael Waldron, with Eli Manning executive producing alongside Peyton Manning, Jamie Horowitz, Ben Brown and ESPN’s Burke Magnus, Brian Lockhart and Craig Lazarus.

Waldron’s fingerprints will be all over this next chapter in more ways than one. He is set to return not only as showrunner but as director for four of the season’s six episodes, including both the premiere and the finale, and he has renewed his overall deal with 20th Television to stay closely tied to the franchise going forward. He has also talked about wanting three total seasons to fully tell Russ’s story, drawing comparisons to the escalating stakes of ‘Breaking Bad.’

With the countdown to September now officially on, how do you think Ricky and Russ’s uneasy alliance will hold up once Coach Hudson starts asking harder questions?