Hazbin Hotel season 2 teaser gives fans what they really want
The first teaser for season 2 of A24’s hit animated series Hazbin Hotel has arrived, and the show’s vast fandom is going to be picking over it frame by frame, looking for hints about what’s coming after the first season’s explosive musical finale. Newbies to the show are likely to be lost, even more so than usual with a season 2 trailer: The 40-second teaser is largely just ominous flashes of quick character moments, with a foreboding voiceover from Broadway star Christian Borle (Smash) as the TV-headed demon overlord Vox, the primary antagonist of season 2.
Season 1 of Hazbin Hotel centers on Charlie Morningstar, daughter of the fallen angel Lucifer, trying to figure out how to save human souls from Hell by redeeming them and sending them to Heaven. In part, she’s trying to prevent the yearly Extermination, when angels come down from Heaven to slaughter Hell’s denizens.
In season 1, Vox is an up-and-coming overlord who sees an advantage both in promising Hell’s fearful denizens safety from the angels, and in the power vacuum left at the end of the season finale. The teaser trailer suggests he’s stirring up Hell to rise up against Heaven — the exact reason Heaven allowed the yearly Extermination event, to control Hell’s population and keep its people intimidated.
The new trailer has Vox promising “breaking news” as “Hell will rise,” over flashes of Charlie, her father Lucifer, her girlfriend Vaggie, her hotel maid Niffty, the radio demon Alastor, and a few minor characters. But this was the shot that caught my eye: fan-favorite sinner demon Angel Dust, leaping off a building toward his friend Husker, who appears to be tied to a stylized train track like a damsel in distress in a silent movie.
That track is so Seussian that the shot looks like a dream sequence — but it could well be a real event, given how visually distorted and wild the action get during Hazbin Hotel‘s many musical sequences. We’ll find out what’s really going on here when the show’s eight-episode second season premieres on Prime Video on Oct. 29.