Overview
- Season 2 premieres Thursday, January 8, 2026 on Max, with 15 episodes rolling out weekly to a Thursday, April 16 finale.
- The new run again unfolds in real time over a single 15-hour emergency department shift during a busy Fourth of July.
- Promotional footage shows a hospital-wide systems shutdown that sends the ER to paper charts and manual workarounds.
- Most of the original cast returns, Tracy Ifeachor’s Dr. Collins does not, and Sepideh Moafi joins as Dr. Al-Hashimi, stepping in while Dr. Robby takes a sabbatical.
- Trailers indicate Dana returns after considering quitting and Langdon resumes duties after rehab, as Season 1 reenters Max’s top-ten streaming ranks ahead of the debut.