UnReal: Season 2

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Lifetime | HULU | LIFETIME-TW | Season Premiere Date: June 6, 2016

Summary: A new season of Everlasting finds producers Rachel Goldberg (Shiri Appleby) and Quinn King (Constance Zimmer) casting an African-American All-American football player (B.J. Britt) as the newest eligible beau.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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Season 2 Episodes

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S2:E10. Friendly Fire
Air Date: August 8, 2016
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S2:E9. Espionage
Air Date: August 1, 2016
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S2:E8. Fugitive
Air Date: July 25, 2016

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Gail Pennington

Jun 6, 2016

Often uncomfortable to watch, sometimes hilarious soap opera, UnREAL is also both intelligent and thought-provoking, one of TV's smartest and most cynical shows. Read full review

Alan Sepinwall

Jun 6, 2016

Last summer, the show's quality was a surprise because of what it was about and where it aired. Now, UnREAL isn't surprising. It's just thrilling. Read full review

Jen Chaney

Jun 2, 2016

The second season of UnREAL continues to work from that same multilayered template [of season one], but with even more confidence and a greater sense of ambition. Read full review

James Poniewozik

Jun 6, 2016

UnREAL remains one of TV’s most sharp-minded and -tongued escapes, a heart-shaped box full of chocolate and razor blades. Read full review

Collider Allison Keene

Jun 6, 2016

The show is fast, funny, profane, and charming, even with it occasionally gets almost unrelentingly dark as abuse and toxic relationships run up and down the chain. Read full review

Megan Garber

Jun 6, 2016

UnREAL’s early episodes leave those questions [Will Ruby and Rachel team up to make Everlasting a show that is about more than performative romance? Or will one betray the other? Will Ruby be ruined by reality TV, as so many before her have ... or will she harness the power of “reality” to improve reality?] tantalizingly open, with characters, and its plots, that are elastic and complicated enough to accommodate many possibilities. Read full review

Joshua Alston

Jun 6, 2016

Despite the exciting reboot, UnREAL still falls short of the expectations set by Rachel and Quinn, because their relationship is more crystallized than anything else on the show. Everlasting’s production process remains as frustratingly opaque as its contestants, and it isn’t always enough that the vagueness gives Rachel and Quinn a wide-open playing field for their mind games. Read full review

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AljosaO

Sep 11, 2016

Starting the season, we quickly notice that things have changed. Madison in the new Rachel, Rachel is the new Quinn and Quinn is the new Chet. Could that last? No! And it doesn't. At first presented obstacle everything crumbles and everybody is back in their season 1 position. That obviouslyStarting the season, we quickly notice that things have changed. Madison in the new Rachel, Rachel is the new Quinn and Quinn is the new Chet. Could that last? No! And it doesn't. At first presented obstacle everything crumbles and everybody is back in their season 1 position. That obviously means more drama, more quarrels and more frustration for the characters.
Rachel is still struggling with her mental illness, which has its roots in her early childhood. She still hasn't processed last season's issues (Adam, Jeremy) so when new problems emerge upon her, she collapses. We see her in her most vulnerable moments, and Appleby gave us an award-winning dazzling performance, which is greatly underrated. In the same moment she can charm us with her over-confidence and seductiveness but deep in her eyes we can see her pain and trauma.

We also got to know Quinn deeper, which was a welcome change. She transformed from an one ? dimensional »angry cunning boss« character to an actual human person, who loves and can be loved. Her love interest this season was pretty dull and unoriginal, since they had already used a rich, thick accent guy last year on Rachel. He served as a pretty good plot device, but they could deliver that storyline much better.

The main subject of the second season was obviously an always ongoing war, on and off - set. But who against whom? Characters changed their opinions and sides so fast that we didn't have time to breathe.

By the end, when the story has crystallized, it was Coleman and Yael vs. Quinn, Rachel and Chet. The only trouble (it is not necessarily trouble) is that we cannot automatically root for Team Everlasting. They are doing horrible things for god's sake! But as the season progressed, the writers intentionally atributed Coleman with all that negativity so they diverted our anger from Quinn towards him. Season 2 also dealt with more delicate themes like police brutality, mental illness and racism, which was more then welcome, so we can view Unreal not just as a primetime soap, but also as a real, important series in peak TV era.

I wonder: Is this how it is? Are producers vile people who would do anything for an hour of »good« TV? Would they kill and humiliate?. Is it worth it? Is Unreal a show that opens our eyes and stops us from watching reality TV? Or does it address its viewers and convinces us into watching more reality TV? It impacts us in one way or another.

By the end of the finale it seems that one battle is over. But another one, bigger than ever, is just emerging. Nobody won. They all lost. Well, except our suitor. And the viewers. The first one got true love. And we? A crazy 10-episode gut wrenching, brilliant season.… Expand

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Laj

Nov 6, 2016

I wanted to love it. I really really did. Season 1 was, at least at the beginning, great. Sadly season 2 became for me very old, very quickly. The show itself soon became bereft of ideas, and so the same old hackneyed story arcs were written in with the predictable romances etc.

TalkI wanted to love it. I really really did. Season 1 was, at least at the beginning, great. Sadly season 2 became for me very old, very quickly. The show itself soon became bereft of ideas, and so the same old hackneyed story arcs were written in with the predictable romances etc.

Talk about painting by numbers. 3/10 for a good idea in Season 1, poorly maintained into a second season. I bet there will be no third season.

Mild dislike with more boredom.… Expand

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Seasons & Episodes

78

Series Overview
Season 4

60
- Season 4 Overview
  Air Date: July 16, 2018
Season 3

63
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: February 26, 2018
Season 2

87
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: June 6, 2016
- tbd
  S2:E10. Friendly Fire
  Air Date: August 8, 2016
- tbd
  S2:E9. Espionage
  Air Date: August 1, 2016
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  S2:E8. Fugitive
  Air Date: July 25, 2016
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  S2:E7. Ambush
  Air Date: July 18, 2016
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  S2:E6. Casualty
  Air Date: July 11, 2016
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  S2:E5. Infiltration
  Air Date: July 4, 2016
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  S2:E4. Treason
  Air Date: June 27, 2016
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  S2:E3. Guerilla
  Air Date: June 20, 2016
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  S2:E2. Insurgent
  Air Date: June 13, 2016
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  S2:E1. War
  Air Date: June 6, 2016
Season 1

78
- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: June 1, 2015