Season 2 adapts The Sea of Monsters and follows Percy, Annabeth, and his new cyclops half-brother Tyson (Daniel Diemer) as they journey into the Bermuda Triangle to find the Golden Fleece, a magical item that can fix the breached barrier around Camp Half-Blood. Along the way, the new trio join forces with fellow demigod Clarisse (Dior Goodjohn); rescue Grover from the cyclops Polyphemus (Aleks Paunovic); and come face-to-face again with Luke (Charlie Bushnell), their former fellow camper who is now working with the Titan king Kronos to bring down Olympus.
“This is really the angsty season, in my opinion,” Scobell says of his titular protagonist. “A lot of the challenges he faces are about him and his feelings, so I think, if anything, we pulled a little bit from the third book back to the second book, because the third book deals with that a lot.”
“Each season the stakes get a little higher and the color grading gets a little darker, and the storylines become more grounded and gory and intense,” adds Goodjohn, who plays the ruthless daughter of Ares. “I think what is contributing to the scale of the entire show is that as time goes on and as our characters and our audience grow up, things get more real … if you take a look at each person’s arc, there is some kid out there going through the exact same thing.”
The New Trio
After season 1 ended with Percy, Annabeth, and Grover making a pact to reunite at Camp Half-Blood the following summer, season 2 begins with the original trio physically and emotionally separated. Grover has disappeared on his quest to find the Greek god Pan. Annabeth’s first year as a teen in the mortal world has not gone according to plan. And upon reuniting with Percy, Annabeth is dismayed to learn that he has befriended a cyclops — the same kind of monster that claimed the life of her close friend, Thalia Grace (Tamara Smart), years earlier.
As a long-time superfan of the Percy Jackson universe, Diemer feels confident in declaring that the heart of his iteration of Tyson is identical to the one in the books. “You have this big, extremely loving, very innocent, sensitive, young baby cyclops who comes from a world where he is homeless, so there’s a lot of pain in that,” he says. “But he’s the eternal optimist. He’s looking to give the world as much of himself as he can, he’s looking to love as best as he can, and he’s hoping for a family and for that love to be returned.”
