Paramount+ has revealed the premiere date and a first look at Season 2 of Average Joe, the action-comedy thriller starring Deon Cole. The eight-episode season debuts with two episodes, followed by weekly installments.
The series, formerly a BET+ original, is airing its second season after BET+ was folded into Paramount+ by Paramount Skydance.
What happens in Season 2 of ‘Average Joe’?
According to the official description, after the events of Season 1, “Joe Washington is trying to move forward when a mysterious threat targeting his family sends him and the gang to Cape Town, South Africa. What begins as a search for answers quickly spirals into a dangerous adventure involving international criminals, powerful enemies and long-buried secrets. As Joe, Leon, Cathy and Touch find themselves hunted across the city, they’ll dodge assassins, outrun bounty hunters and attempt to survive a series of increasingly impossible situations that only seem to get more chaotic by the day.”
Who stars in Season 2 of ‘Average Joe’?
Cole returns alongside Malcolm Barrett, Cynthia Kaye McWilliams and Michael Trucco. Joining the cast this season are Katlego Lebogang as Imani, “a young woman whose connection to Joe’s family changes everything he thought he knew about his past,” and Hakeem Kae-Kazim as Sipho, “a powerful Cape Town crime boss whose pursuit of Joe and the gang threatens to upend their lives.”
The series is executive produced by Robb Cullen, Cole, Eric Dean Seaton, Tyrone Finch, Rose Catherine Pinkney and Deb Evans for DAE Light Media, alongside McG, Corey Marsh and Mary Viola for Wonderland Sound and Vision. It is produced by Wonderland Sound and Vision and DAE Light Media in association with BET Studios.
When does ‘Average Joe’ Season 2 premiere?
Average Joe Season 2 premieres Aug. 19 on Paramount+.
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