Jennifer Garner leans into fight scenes as The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 returns

jennifer garner’s Hannah Michaels is back on the run in The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2, and the show shifts to let her get physical early — a change that the critic says improves this inessential follow-up.

Season 2 reopens the gallery tease

The new season begins by revisiting a brief, secret encounter at a gallery in which Hannah Michaels (Jennifer Garner) runs into her supposedly disappeared husband, Owen (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). That same short scene that closed Season 1 is used to kick off Season 2, preserving the earlier moment of intrigue while changing the series’ tone elsewhere.

Jennifer Garner gets physical early

About 15 minutes into the episode, the show lets Garner demonstrate a more physical side of Hannah, a shift the critic welcomed. The piece emphasizes that Garner has proven herself a gifted physical actor and that Season 2 makes tangible use of that ability rather than keeping her strictly in the “Mom” mold.

Hannah’s new precautions and what they show

Five years later in the story’s timeline, Hannah has built a life anticipating another disruption. The season shows concrete changes: 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 details are presented as reasons the show feels different from a straight repeat of Season 1.

Why Hannah and Bailey are on the run

The critic notes a plot shift that puts Hannah on the run with her stepdaughter Bailey (Angourie Rice). At the end of Season 1, Hannah had struck a deal with her husband’s late wife’s father — a mobbed lawyer played by David Morse — that was supposed to keep her and Bailey from being hunted by his clients, the Campanos, for Owen’s betrayal. In Season 2, that agreement is undone, prompting the new flight.

Plot leaps and a truncated warning

The review calls the undoing of the agreement a demanding leap for viewers: it asks the audience to accept a crime family reacting to a betrayal from almost twenty years earlier by targeting the betrayer’s daughter and, for good measure, a new wife who met the betrayer years later. The critic summarizes the reversal brusquely as “Because, plot!” The original context then trails off with an unfinished word, ending in "Campan" — unclear in the provided context.

Season 2’s source material and other headlines in the roundup

The critic describes this second season as being based on "Laura David’s just published last year sequel novel" and judges the season a step up in some respects despite feeling inessential. Coverage around the same time included a short item titled "Just a moment... " and a broader entertainment roundup with many other headlines, including:

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jennifer garner’s return in Season 2 is framed as a more kinetic, prepared Hannah who fights and plans for danger; the season also resets the threat by ending the legal shield that kept the Campanos at bay. The immediate next step from the available context is unclear in the provided context.