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Time Season 2

Time Season 2 is a WORTH-IT, BollyMeter 8.0/10. 3 episodes on BBC One from 29 October 2023.

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BollyMeter8.0/10Season 2 earned 93% on Rotten Tomatoes; Jodie Whittaker and Bella Ramsey led a women's prison story that critics found nearly as compelling as the Bean-Graham original.

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What BollyAI Thinks

Series 2 switched the setting to a women's prison and the cast to Jodie Whittaker, Tamara Lawrance, and Bella Ramsey, retaining Jimmy McGovern as writer and Siobhan Finneran's prison chaplain as the series' moral anchor. A 93% Rotten Tomatoes score confirmed the anthology format held - the women's prison estate gave McGovern a distinct political dimension that the first series had not explored. Whittaker's Orla O'Riordan and Ramsey's Kelsey Morgan brought their own emotional gravity. The shadow of Bean and Graham's specific chemistry from Series 1 was hard to escape in the comparison, but as a standalone piece it was high-quality British drama that earned its place in the same run.

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Season Over Season

Whittaker and Ramsey carry a strong second chapter, but the Bean-Graham chemistry of Series 1 remains the harder act to follow.