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Chris Pratt Returns to ‘The Terminal List’ in Action-Packed Trailer 4 Years After Season 1
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Prime Video revealed the trailer for ‘The Terminal List’ season 2, four years after the first season. Chris Pratt returns as James Reece, a Navy SEAL on a mission of redemption while facing a terminal diagnosis.
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Prime Video revealed the trailer for The Terminal List season 2, four years after the first season
Chris Pratt returns as James Reece, a Navy SEAL on a mission of redemption while facing a terminal diagnosis
The new season will deviate from Jack Carr’s second novel True Believer, the author previously said, due to real-life parallels and creative constraints
Chris Pratt is making a return to The Terminal List.
On Thursday, Aug. 20, Prime Video unveiled the first teaser trailer for the action-thriller series’ second season, which sees the return of Pratt, 47, as Navy SEAL Commander James Reece.
Arriving four years after season 1 aired, the new installment follows James on a “journey of violent redemption, finding a new purpose after finishing his list,” a statement from Prime Video reads.
“Before he was a fugitive, James Reece made a career out of putting terrorists in the dirt,” an official can be heard saying in the trailer. “He may be exactly what we need for this fight.”
James then learns he’s been granted a full pardon for his past crimes, seemingly to hop aboard a new mission. “We’re ready to give you your life back,” said Freddy Strain, a former SEAL and CIA officer.
But there’s another ironic layer to James’ new lease on life: He’s dying.
“I don’t want you taking chances just ‘cause you got one foot in the grave,” said Katie Buranek, a journalist who partnered with James on a previous mission. James responds, “Having one foot in the grave is exactly what we need.”
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The Terminal List’s first season, based on Jack Carr’s bestselling novel, met James as he returns home from a mission that ended in a disastrous ambush, of which he has conflicting memories. Fueled by vengeance, James exacts retribution by systematically seeking out and killing those who played a role in the mission’s catastrophic end and the irreparable damage to his personal life.
Carr previously told PEOPLE in March 2025 that The Terminal List’s season 2 would make a major deviation from the plot of the second novel, True Believer.
“We can’t follow it because some things that I wrote about in the book actually came true [in real life], and in the book the character prevents them from happening,” Carr told PEOPLE.
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“So there are some mandatory changes like that, and then there’s other ones because you have constraints obviously with time and all those other things,” he added.
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Alongside Pratt, the second season stars Tom Hopper, Constance Wu, Dar Salim, Luke Hemsworth and Gabriel Luna. Taylor Kitsch starred in the spinoff series The Terminal List: Dark Wolf that debuted in 2025.
The Terminal List season 2 will debut all eight episodes on Prime Video on Oct. 21.
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