Creator and executive producer Genndy Tartakovsky promises season two of his Emmy Award-winning series Primal is “hard core, epic badassery,” and the just-released trailer appears to confirm he’s telling the truth. The much-anticipated second season launches Thursday, July 21, 2022 on Adult Swim and will be available on HBO Max the following day.
During the winter Television Critics Association’s press tour, Tartakovsky admitted he was shocked about how quickly the series caught on. “The response was fantastic,” said Tartakovsky. “[…]They weren’t just responding to the violence and the action, but they were responding to the characters and the emotionality of everything. I think that’s what we were kind of after.”
Tartakovsky continued: “Season two is bigger, grander, surprising, and it’s pushing — you know, when we first started to break down the second season, I wasn’t happy and I threw everything away. And we came up with something more unconventional at times. Almost experimental at times. I didn’t say almost, but incredibly different, but almost — but, at the same time, the same as what we’ve done. So I’m super excited. I cannot wait for this to start to air, and I think it’s going to be very, very memorable.”
Season one earned five Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program. It currently ranks in the top 10 among all Adult Swim series on HBO Max.
Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal’s behind-the-scenes team includes art director Scott Wills (The Ren & Stimpy Show), composers Tyler Bates (Guardians of the Galaxy) and Joanne Higginbottom (Samurai Jack), and sound effects designer Joel Valentine (Big City Greens).
Adult Swim provided the following plot description:
“Genndy Tartakovsky’s Primal follows the tale of Spear (Aaron LaPlante), a caveman at the dawn of evolution, as he forms an unlikely friendship with Fang, a nearly extinct dinosaur. In the second season, Spear and Fang journey to a new world to rescue Mira (Laëtitia Eïdo) from her captors, only to find a place filled with savage brutality.
Filled with suspense, heartbreak, excitement, love and fear, all with almost no dialogue, the series is a painting come to life, relying solely on music and graphic imagery to tell the story of two unlikely allies as they navigate through a treacherous world. After bonding over unfortunate tragedies, they seem to become each other’s only hope of survival.”
