A Thousand Blows Trailer: Steven Knight Teases ‘Major Consequences’ In Season 2 Of Disney+ Drama
Ding! Ding! Ding! It’s not even been a year just yet since the first season of A Thousand Blows burst onto our screens, introducing the world to Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby), Mary Carr (Erin Doherty), and Sugar Goodson (Stephen Graham) — and yet somehow we’re already getting set to step back into the ring for Season 2 of Steven Knight’s punchy Victorian boxing drama in just a few short weeks. Ahead of the show’s hotly anticipated return on Disney+ next month, Empire can exclusively share the new trailer for A Thousand Blows Season 2. Check it out below;
Well, well, well, it looks like it really is seconds out, round two for the denizens of London’s East End when we rejoin them here, a year on from the life-changing events of last season’s explosive finale. “A new era is dawning,” proclaims a resurgent Mary Carr at the climax of this new trailer, but, as showrunner/creator Knight tells Empire, the reverberations of what went down at the end of A Thousand Blows‘ first series — which left Hezekiah, Mary, and Sugar each differently down for the count — are set to cause shockwaves in Season 2.
“The things that people have done in Series 1 have major consequences,” shares Knight, who’s currently hard at work on both Denis Villeneuve’s James Bond movie and Peaky Blinders‘ upcoming follow-up series. “But really, the most important thing you see in these characters this time around is that they are often in situations where lesser people would be beaten down and would just give in — where others would see a river, jump in, and just follow where it takes them. But these characters swim against the tide. They are always fighting against it. And you will see that here, that they’re always carving out their own destiny.”
A Thousand Blows/Season 2. Darci Shaw as Alice in A Thousand Blows. Cr. Robert Viglasky/Disney+ © 2025.
While our core trio — Hezekiah, Mary, and Sugar — and their ever-complicating dynamic continue to take centre stage when A Thousand Blows picks up here, Knight is also digging deeper into the show’s ensemble here, too. Not only are we set to get the introductions of Peaky regular Ned Dennehy as the dastardly Bull Jeremy, Stanley Morgan as a young Prince Albert Victor, and Catherine McCormack as notorious American criminal lynchpin Sophie Lyons in the season ahead, but some of the series’ existing figures are also about to get their close-up. “You’ve got to look out for Treacle (James Nelson-Joyce) and Alice Diamond (Darci Shaw), teases Knight. “I’ve got big plans for Alice going forward. In reality, she took over and became the Queen of the Forty Elephants later down the line, so naturally there’s groundwork to be laid for that. I’m always planning ahead…”
With Knight continuing to draw on real-life historical figures and events while weaving his own dramatist magic to bring them all together and set sparks flying, it feels like A Thousand Blows could, like Peaky Blinders before it, run and run and run. But before we even start thinking about a potential ATB Season 3, we’ve got the small matter of a very juicy looking Season 2 to look forward to when it premieres on exclusively on Disney+ and Hulu from 9 January 2026. Here’s hoping we’re in for a knockout!
