The Sweetpea season 2 trailer has arrived, and with it comes the confirmation that Rhiannon Lewis’s particular brand of quiet devastation is far from finished. Deadline reports that the show is also set to launch on Starz in early 2027, widening its reach considerably beyond its original Sky home.
Sky released the teaser for the second chapter of its darkly comic thriller, a series that, when it first landed in 2024, had a way of lodging itself under the skin. Not because it was comfortable (it was anything but) but because it understood something true about the particular exhaustion of being overlooked. That tension, coiled through every episode, is precisely what made it so difficult to set aside once started.
What the Sweetpea Season 2 Trailer Tells Us So Far
The show brings novelist CJ Skuse’s books to life, with Ella Purnell playing Rhiannon Lewis, described by the series as a “quiet wallflower who develops a vengeful and liberating taste for murder.” The whole project has been positioned as a “deviously twisted and darkly comic ‘coming-of-rage’ thriller”, that hyphenated coinage, coming-of-rage, doing more work than most press releases manage in a full paragraph. It captures something about the genre that the phrase “female revenge thriller” never quite lands: the sense that this is less about retribution and more about a woman finally, catastrophically, taking up space.
When we last left Rhiannon, she was still nominally inoffensive, the sort of person who passes through rooms without leaving an impression. Then her father dies, her life reorganises itself around grief and rupture, and something shifts irrevocably. The show does not frame her violence as a solution so much as a symptom, which is what kept it from feeling gratuitous and what, presumably, gives the second season its dramatic engine.
Starz and the Expanding World of Rhiannon Lewis
The Starz development is worth dwelling on. The series originally aired as a Sky Original, and the Sweetpea season 2 trailer appearing alongside news of a Starz launch window in early 2027 suggests the show is being positioned for a genuinely transatlantic audience. It is a logical fit: American prestige television has long had an appetite for the kind of darkly comic female-led drama that British broadcasters have occasionally struggled to place, and the tone of Sweetpea (mordant, precise, a little feral) translates.
Purnell, whose performance in the first series was the thing that held it all together, returns for the second chapter. She has the particular skill of making interiority legible without telegraphing it: you sense Rhiannon processing, calculating, and occasionally breaking, without ever being handed the emotional stage directions. It is a difficult register to sustain across a full series, and the fact that Sky has committed to a second run suggests both confidence in the material and in Purnell’s ability to carry it.
Details beyond the trailer and the Starz launch window remain sparse for now, but with an early 2027 air date already in frame, the next layer of announcements is unlikely to be far behind.
