Outlast Season 2 Trailer: Participants Face Off in Intense Battles to Outlast the Competition
The highly dangerous reality show that challenges people’s survival skills in real situations is making a comeback with its second season. Outlast Season 2 is set to premiere its first six episodes on September 4, followed by the final two episodes on September 11 on Netflix, as exclusively revealed by Entertainment Weekly.
Sixteen contestants will be stranded in the Alaskan wilderness, where they must endure harsh conditions such as freezing temperatures, limited food, and minimal supplies. The show allows participants to play a cutthroat game by sabotaging other contestants’ comfort and pressuring them to quit, which they can do by igniting a flare into the sky.
In the previous season, one team resorted to despicable tactics, jeopardizing their rivals’ safety by stealing their sleeping bags, ultimately forcing them to withdraw rather than risk hypothermia from sleeping outdoors in the freezing cold. Two female participants raided a player’s shelter and destroyed his raft. The theft of sleeping bags continued with malicious actions and they also sabotaged their former team by destroying their shelter.
Grant Kahler, the show’s executive producer, confessed to EW, “It was truly shocking.” He disclosed that the incident led the production team to intervene and separate individuals due to their intense anger. Kahler emphasized that for safety reasons, they had to pause and “reevaluate the situation.”
The trailer for the upcoming season confirms that treachery is a central theme of the competition and contestants will stop at nothing to win the million-dollar prize. A voice in the trailer suggested, “Let’s go wreck their entire camp.” Participants were heard discussing the ruthless nature of the game, with phrases like “sometimes you have to play the villain” and “that’s the nature of the game – if you weren’t prepared, it’s not our fault.”
Showrunner Mike Odair informed EW that they aimed to maintain the elements that fans enjoyed in the first season. “This new season features higher stakes, more intense team dynamics, and storylines that truly capture the human spirit in this brutal and challenging game of survival,” he added.