How Halo Season 2 Picks Up From Season 1’s Cliffhanger Ending Teased By Master Chief Actor

Master Chief actor Pablo Schreiber breaks down how Halo season 2 picks up from the first season’s cliffhanger ending, teasing how much time has passed and how the supersoldier’s relationship has changed with AI Cortana (Jen Taylor). The Paramount+ show is based on Microsoft’s videogame franchise of the same name. In season 1’s finale, Cortana assumes control of the Master Chief in a climactic fight, merging their consciousnesses and allowing them to win at the apparent cost of his humanity.

With Halo season 1 ending with the Chief unresponsive to his closest allies, Schreiber has teased how season 1 will address his and Cortana’s new dynamic to Collider. While some time has passed between seasons, Schreiber stated season 1 will continue to build up to the dynamic seen in the original game. Check out Schreiber’s full response below:

Yeah, four, five, or six months. Something like that. There’s a bit of a time gap. I think that’s probably almost all we’re allowed to reveal. But a bit of time has passed, and not all of the things that were set in stone at the end of Season 1 are set in stone at the top of Season 2. There has been some change and time has passed, so exactly where we are, I can’t tell you until you tune in, but that’s the broad strokes.

But one of the things you’re dealing with when you talk about John and Cortana is that you’re dealing with a relationship that’s steady through the video games, right? It’s a functional relationship. She’s your tour guide through the video games, and he’s you through the video games. So that relationship, by nature, can’t change that much in the dynamic of the video games. So, if you’re telling a long-form TV series, you don’t want to go right to whatever that relationship is in the games immediately because you’ve lost the opportunity to tell some kind of arc or some kind of story. So, that relationship evolved over the course of Season 1, and it will continue to evolve over the course of Season 2. I think it goes to some very interesting places in Season 2. I’m curious to hear what you think about it when you see it.

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Source: Collider

Halo

A live-action adaptation of the video game franchise of the same name, Halo follows Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 (Pablo Schrieber) as he fights his part in a war between humanity’s United Nations Space Command (UNSC) and the Covenant, an alliance of multiple hostile races of aliens intent on destroying the human race. The Master Chief is supported by Cortana (Jen Taylor) – an AI construct based on the personality of Dr. Catherine Halsey, who created the Spartan supersoldier program – implanted in his brain.

Release Date

March 24, 2022

Cast

Jen Taylor , Bokeem Woodbine , Charlie Murphy , Shabana Azmi , Kate Kennedy , Natascha McElhone , Yerin Ha , Bentley Kalu , Pablo Schreiber , Danny Sapani , Olive Gray , Natasha Culzac

Seasons

2

Creator(s)

Kyle Killen , Steven Kane

Writers

Kyle Killen , Silka Luisa , Richard Robbins , Steven Kane , Justine Juel Gillmer

Directors

Otto Bathurst , Jonathan Liebesman , Roel Reiné , Dennie Gordon , Debs Paterson , Craig Zisk , Jessica Lowrey

Showrunner

Kyle Killen