His Dark Materials Final Season Trailer Teases the Return of [Spoiler] — Watch
Just like a balloon, His Dark Materials‘ Lee Scoresby has risen.
The fantasy series’ final season trailer, which HBO released Friday, ended with a shot of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Lee, who was super dead by the final moments of the Season 2 finale. (If you’ve read Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials novels, on which the show is based, Lee’s reappearance makes sense. But if you haven’t, we won’t spoil you as to why or how he’s somehow still around.)
His Dark Materials‘ Season 3 will be based on The Amber Spyglass, the third book in Pullman’s trilogy. Per the official logline, “Lyra (played by Dafne Keen), the prophesied child, and Will (Amir Wilson), the bearer of The Subtle Knife, must journey to a dark place from which no one has ever returned. As her father’s great war against the Authority edges closer, they will learn that saving the worlds comes at a terrible price.”
In addition to Keen and Wilson, the final season’s cast will include Ruth Wilson as Mrs. Coulter, James McAvoy as Lord Asriel, Simone Kirby as Mary Malone, Will Keen as Father President McPhail, Jade Anouka as Ruta Skadi, Ruta Gedminstas as Serafina Pekkala, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje as Commander Ogunwe, Jamie Ward as Father Gomez, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, Simon Harrison and Chipo Chung as the rebel angels Balthamos, Baruch and Xaphania, and Amber Fitzgerald-Woolfe as Ama.
As His Dark Materials announced at its New York Comic Con panel Thursday, Season 3 will consist of eight episodes. The season will kick off with two back-to-back episodes on Monday, Dec. 5, at 9/8c. Two new episodes will follow each week, up until the series finale on Monday, Dec. 26.
Press PLAY on the teaser trailer at the top of the post, scroll down to see the official final season poster, then hit the comments: Are you planning to watch His Dark Materials‘ swan song?
Wow… I thought there was just the one season.
Glad the see this is coming back
It’s a shame they’re burning through the final episodes like that. I’ve been looking forward to this coming back but for it to get rushed out the door is sad
I personally hate having to wait for episodes to be released one at a time. I’m spoiled now by streaming options that drop entire seasons all at once. This release schedule is somewhere between the all at once and one at a time options. You could still watch one per week if that’s how you like to watch. Just because episodes are available (for those who are impatient, like me), doesn’t mean you can’t watch them as you like. Don’t let it ruin your enjoyment of the series.
Dafne Keen is all grown up now and it perfectly matches the coming of age journey Lyra has been through. Can’t wait for the finale conclusion of the trilogy and hopefully in a few years they can adapt the second trilogy of books, after the last one is released maybe.
Finally, the last season is all about Lord Asriel. James McAvoy barely appeared in last season. The showrunner went all in in season 3. The final scene feels like Star Trek or Star Wars. I hope visual effect is not disappointing.