Jennifer Garner Wants a 'Physical Fight' with Judy Greer as Season 2 Lets Her Get Physical
jennifer garner said she would like a "physical fight" with Judy Greer — "I'd like to wipe the floor with her" — a remark that lands alongside a clear creative choice in The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2: the show gives Garner room to be physical, early and often.
Jennifer Garner gets physical about 15 minutes into Season 2
The series opens with a familiar beat — a brief, secret encounter at a gallery between Hannah Michaels (Jennifer Garner) and the supposedly disappeared Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) — then moves on. About 15 minutes into the new season, the show allows Hannah to demonstrate fighting skills that had been largely absent from her recent roles, showing training in hand-to-hand work and a readiness to carry a weapon.
A life built for disruption: burner phones, lockboxes and secret units
Five years later in the show's timeline, Hannah has reshaped her routines: she trains in fighting, actively carries a weapon, uses burner cell phones, keeps bank lockboxes full of untraceable cash, and rents secret storage units. Those concrete choices alter how the series plays out, turning scenes of escape and pursuit into sequences that lean on preparation and physical performance rather than passive reaction.
A return to running with Bailey after a deal unravels
The new season pivots when an agreement meant to shield Hannah and her stepdaughter Bailey (Angourie Rice) is declared finished. At the end of Season 1, Hannah struck a deal with her husband’s late wife’s father — a mobbed lawyer played by David Morse — that had kept the Campanos from hunting them. With that deal undone, Hannah and Bailey are pushed back into flight, and familiar threats resurface.
The plot leans into the revenge motivations of the Campanos and asks characters to react to old betrayals; it also stretches audience credulity at times by placing a renewed focus on danger to Bailey, who was young when her father crossed the crime family. Still, the show’s new emphasis on training, weapons and proactive measures gives the central role more physical stakes and lets jennifer garner flex a side of her acting many viewers have not seen as often.
The second season is drawn from a sequel novel by Laura David’s, published last year, and the storytelling has been described as a step up: the series avoids simply redoing Season 1 by showing real change in Hannah after the events of that earlier installment. The gallery tease that closed Season 1 reappears at the top of Season 2, but it now sits inside a larger arc about readiness and retaliation.
As the season unfolds, audiences will watch how Hannah’s training and preparations — the fighting, the burner phones, the lockboxes — affect actual confrontations and escapes on screen. The series continues to follow Hannah and Bailey as they go back on the run, with the early episodes establishing both the physical tone and the immediate stakes created by the broken agreement with the Campanos.
