Paramount Pictures today posted a “First Look Trailer” at the upcoming Season 2 for ‘Halo The Series’. The show will be available exclusively on Paramount+ when it air on the 8th of February 2024.
They will be remembered.
Master Chief John-117 leads his team of elite Spartans against the alien threat known as the Covenant. As humanity’s best hope for winning the war, John-117 discovers his deep connection to a mysterious alien structure that holds the key to humankind’s salvation, or its destruction — the Halo.
Check out the trailer below to see Halo for yourself. Season 1 is currently available for viewing on Paramount+ as well.
This show really wasn’t bad as some are making out to be. It’s nothing amazing or special also, it’s just decent and enjoyable. There’s potential for improvement as well if the writers listened to criticism.
I can’t take seriously anyone claiming it was a bad show.
The show had a good story, good performances, good production values, plenty of nods to the games… In no way, shape, or form will I accept someone saying it’s outright bad. That’s ridiculous.
Sure, it wasn’t faithful to previous Halo creations, but if that’s the foundation of someone’s critique, then I see no reason to listen to the rest of what they have to say. Not being a carbon copy doesn’t make it bad.
That said, to a certain extent I do value being faithful to the source when adapting anything. If you make too many changes, you’re basically throwing out what made the original special in the first place.
But a) they didn’t come close to that with this show. Most of the things that make Halo Halo were present.
And b) I’d much rather see showrunners bring their own creativity to a project than blandly re-showing what’s come before. I already know that story and those characters. I prefer showrunners swing for the fences and miss, than just trying to make it to first base.
But that’s me. If others have a different take, they’re luckily free to play the games and read the books or watch one of the many other Halo adaptations out there. Personally, I’ve marked down February 8th in my calendar.
Nah the show was pretty bad. Maybe if it wasn’t called Halo it would be OK but it did more disservice to the brand than anything. The last episode was probably the only one I thought was good.
I’d stick with Fallout. Since this live action actors want to show their face so much. I’d prefer an anime series maybe like the invincible that does the franchise justice.
huh? Really the faces thing? It’s TV, you’re not Chief or playing someone. There is no “silent protagonist” in TV. Chief takes his helmet off all the time in the books. Such a weird thing to get hung up on. Will you stop watching Fallout when they take their Power Armor off?
That’s why I said anime. The problem with the novels is you don’t still have a picture and even in the game he does remove the helmet it’s just the face is never shown. I can’t even say I like or hate the faceless thing. I have to see how it works at least for me and it didn’t for me until the final episode of season 1.
As for Fallout the main protagonist isn’t faceless besides the trailer to me seems to have captured the essence of the games.
Between Halo and Fallout, and Sonic and Super Mario Bros., it really feels like we’re circa 2008-2009 for comic book movies and TV shows, but with games.
Anyone familiar with a pretty dark meme from the first episode of Halo season one where an elite opens the shed to murder the civilians and you just hear “double kill”, “triple kill”, “killing spree”, etc.? I’ve been trying to find it since the season 2 trailer released.
The only thing I didn’t like about them not wearing their helmets was the few times they took it off during inappropriate times. Just 2 or 3 times in the whole season. Like when MC went back to his home as a youth. Seeing the juxtaposition of a young boy to a guy wearing the mask of a killing machine would have been great. I know they wanted to capture MC’s emotion, but that can be conveyed through the suit as well.
Otherwise I think it made a ton of sense, lore-wise to have it off during non-combat.
But I agree, the more I think about the show I begin to think of it with more disappointment. I rated it a 7/10 (good) but now I’d adjust it to 5/10 (a mix of great and bad).
Much of that has to do with COVID changing so much of it. Burn Gorman’s character was set up as a big bad, only had 2 minutes of airtime combined, and was killed off. Kwan was played well as a brat but not only did we see no arc for her character’s growth, she got worse and despising and she was responsible for the deaths of so many innocent people as the season progressed.
Makee was also played well and her story held promise but she was made too important (as a love interest) to the MC’s story when she could have fit well in canon Halo lore without contradicting it as a capable double agent.
There were a lot of good things about the series, but I felt the bad and disappointing parts are issues that are too intrinsic to the show’s overall story that the stench of it will linger into the second season as those beat points are resumed.
I will be watching.
