When Does The Hunting Party Return with New Episodes? Season 2 Schedule and Guest Stars
The Hunting Party resumes its second season the week after the Winter Olympics conclude, bringing fresh cases and heavy-hitter guest stars back to the hunt. New episodes resume on Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 10: 00 p. m. ET, with episodes available the following day on the show’s streaming partner.
When new episodes resume: dates and viewing details
The series returns from an Olympics-related break the week after the Winter Games end on Sunday, February 22, 2026. The next new episode airs Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 10: 00 p. m. ET. The schedule places the show in its usual late-week slot, giving fans back-to-back Thursdays to follow FBI profiler Rebecca “Bex” Henderson and her task force as they chase down dangerous escapees from the secret facility known as The Pit.
Season 2 has maintained a procedural tempo: each episode centers on a new, often grotesque adversary while threading longer storylines about the ethical fallout of The Pit and the emotional strain on the team. Viewers returning after the hiatus should expect the serialized elements to continue alongside the weekly manhunts.
Who’s arriving in the back half of Season 2
The back half of the season ramps up with a parade of recognizable guest stars playing disturbingly inventive killers. Episode 3 reunites Melissa Roxburgh’s Bex with team members Jacob Hassani and Shane Florence as the hunt presses on. Later episodes deliver standout arrivals designed to test the task force in new ways.
A former sitcom and drama lead appears in Episode 5 as a charismatic cult leader and serial killer named Noah Cyrus, turning up on the doorstep of a former follower two decades after an apparent death. That storyline forces the team into a race to unravel a long-buried network of devotion and danger before more lives are claimed.
Episode 6 sends a different kind of predator after the social-media age: a killer who targets influencers, upending the team’s assumptions about motive and exposure in the digital era. Another chilling turn comes in Episode 8, when Melissa Roxburgh reunites on screen with a former co-star who portrays Elliot Carr, a master shoemaker nicknamed the Connecticut Cobbler. Carr’s craft is grotesquely literal — he specializes in custom shoes made from rare leathers and, disturbingly, victims — and his escape from The Pit means the task force must track a meticulous, surgical predator who works slowly and leaves a terrifying signature.
Season 2 has already leaned into big-name casting that subverts expectations, with previously aired episodes featuring unsettling performances from established actors who take familiar faces into darker territory. Those casting choices have become a season hallmark, adding an extra layer of menace to the week-to-week cases.
What to watch for after the return
Beyond the headline guest turns, the post-hiatus episodes will keep developing the team’s internal fractures and the moral questions surrounding The Pit’s experiments. The series balances procedural thrills with character consequences: the hunt is procedural, but the fallout is personal. Expect new chapters to explore how far the task force will go to stop a growing list of escaped criminals without becoming like them.
For viewers who stuck with the show through its first run of Season 2, the return promises more of the same tight pacing and inventive villainy, plus a few casting shocks designed to keep the tension high. Set a reminder for Thursday, February 26, 2026, at 10: 00 p. m. ET to catch the season’s next developments as the hunt continues.
