Jennifer Garner’s Past Comes Knocking in The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 Trailer — Apple TV Sets a Tense February Return
- Je-Ree
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Apple TV is officially reopening the door on one of its buzziest thrillers and judging by the newly released trailer, The Last Thing He Told Me season two is wasting absolutely no time pulling viewers back into its web of secrets, simmering paranoia and emotional landmines. The Jennifer Garner led drama returns Friday, February 20, 2026 and if the trailer is any indication, the series is doubling down on everything that made season one such a compulsive watch.
Based on The First Time I Saw Him, the bestselling sequel novel by Laura Dave, season two picks up five years after Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) vanished into the wind. Now, he’s back, which is great news for exactly no one. Hannah (Garner) and Bailey (Angourie Rice) are once again thrust into survival mode, racing to figure out whether reuniting their fractured family is even possible when the past refuses to stay buried.
The trailer leans hard into tension rather than answers, teasing fractured trust, shifting alliances, and the kind of emotional whiplash that thrives in Apple TV’s prestige-drama lane. Garner remains the show’s emotional anchor, balancing vulnerability with steel-spined resolve, while Rice continues to be one of the series’ quiet MVPs. The returning cast including David Morse brings continuity, while new additions Judy Greer and Rita Wilson immediately register as potential problems.
Behind the scenes, the creative team remains stacked. Laura Dave returns as creator and executive producer alongside Josh Singer, with Aaron Zelman joining as co-showrunner for season two. Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine remains onboard, continuing Apple TV’s ongoing relationship with book-to-screen adaptations that actually respect their source material.
Structurally, season two will roll out across eight episodes, premiering weekly through April 10, 2026, a release strategy that practically dares viewers not to theorize wildly between episodes.
If the first season was about absence and uncertainty, season two looks poised to explore what happens when answers finally arrive and complicate everything. The trailer promises a darker, more emotionally loaded chapter, one that asks whether love can survive the truth, or if some secrets are better left unanswered.
Season one of The Last Thing He Told Me is currently streaming on Apple TV, and based on this trailer, now might be the time to catch up or emotionally brace yourself before February rolls around.