Five years is a long time to stay vanished, but the clock doesn’t stop for the people left behind. And so, Apple TV+ moves the story forward with a Season 2 trailer for “The Last Thing He Told Me,” setting up a tense, forward-leaning continuation where safety won’t be a resolution—it’ll be a temporary disguise.
The eight-episode second season will premiere globally on Friday, February 20, 2026, with its first episode, followed by a weekly rollout every Friday through April 10, 2026.
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Season 2 is based on “The First Time I Saw Him,” Laura Dave’s sequel novel to her bestselling “The Last Thing He Told Me,” and the hook is clean, brutal, and instantly destabilizing: Owen is back. Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will return as the once-vanished husband, reappearing after five years on the run and forcing Hannah to confront the reality she’s been trying to live around. Jennifer Garner, who stars and executive produces, will again play Hannah Hall, with Angourie Rice back as Bailey and David Morse returning as well.
But the trailer’s real charge isn’t the shock of a man showing up again—it’s what his reentry does to the fragile structure Hannah and Bailey will have built in his absence. The new season will push them into a race to reunite their family before the past catches up, a scenario that reads less like a homecoming and more like a fuse being relit. Owen’s return won’t restore a missing piece; it’ll introduce a new threat vector, the kind that turns every reunion into an alibi and every quiet moment into a countdown.
Season 2 will also expand the cast in meaningful ways, adding Judy Greer and Rita Wilson as new series regulars. The supporting ensemble will include Augusto Aguilera, Josh Hamilton, Nick Hargrove, Michael Galante, John Noble, Michael Hyatt, Luke Kirby, and Elizabeth O’Donnell, suggesting a bigger web of allies, antagonists, and uneasy intermediaries orbiting the family’s attempt to stay intact.
On the creative side, the show will continue to lean into prestige pedigree. Season 2 is executive produced by co-showrunners Josh Singer, an Academy Award-winning writer, and Aaron Zelman, an Emmy-nominated writer-producer, alongside Reese Witherspoon and Lauren Neustadter for Hello Sunshine (part of Candle Media). The series is produced by 20th Television and Hello Sunshine, and it was created and adapted by Dave with Singer as co-creator. Daisy von Scherler Mayer and Merri D. Howard will also serve as executive producers.
“The Last Thing He Told Me” season 2 debuts Friday, February 20, on Apple TV. Watch the new trailer below.
