Netflix renews Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a second season and I can't wait for more relic hunting and... shark-punching?

No cursed tombs are safe arsenic Netflix has renewed Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft for a 2nd play – and I can't hold to spot nan adventurer occurrence her dual pistols erstwhile again arsenic she takes connected a man-eating marine beast successful nan upcoming series' adjacent season.

The show's renewal comes conscionable weeks aft Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft premiered connected nan best streaming service connected October 10, pinch Hayley Atwell (Captain America: The First Avenger, Mission Impossible 7) providing nan sound of nan legendary archaeologist successful this latest videogame adaptation.

Based connected nan celebrated videogame franchise first released successful 1996, Lara Croft has since seen galore iterations. From Keeley Hawes successful nan original video crippled series, to Angelina Jolie successful nan 00s movie adaptations, now she's going connected different animated escapade successful Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft season 2.

Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft was 1 of four caller videogame adaptations showcased during Netflix Geeked Week and has received mostly affirmative reviews upon its merchandise pinch 73% connected Rotten Tomatoes. While this doesn't make it 1 of nan best Netflix shows, it's still a fighting fresh TV adjustment that reimagines her bequest story.

What tin we expect successful Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft play 2?

The first play was an root communicative of sorts; 1 taking spot aft nan events of nan 2018 crippled Shadow of nan Tomb Raider and saw the intrepid explorer confronts her traumatic past while unraveling an ancient mystery.

Season 2 is group to create her characteristic from a novice to her travel of becoming nan fable she's known arsenic today. Per a Netflix property release, play 2's charismatic logline reads: "When adventurer Lara Croft discovers a way of stolen African Orisha masks, she joins forces pinch her champion friend Sam to retrieve nan precious artifacts. Lara’s thrilling caller escapade takes her astir nan globe arsenic she delves deeper into nan hidden secrets of Orisha history, dodges nan machinations of a vulnerable and enigmatic billionaire who wants nan masks for herself, while discovering these relics incorporate acheronian secrets and a powerfulness that defies logic. Power that may, successful fact, beryllium divine."

Showrunner Tasha Huo teased immoderate breathtaking specifications astir Croft's characteristic successful play 2 to Netflix Tudum: “So play 1, thematically, is astir Lara embracing really her dada dealt pinch grief, which was isolating. When we meet Lara, she’s very isolated … As we get into play 2, we’re trying to build Lara’s squad complete nan people of nan show, truthful she goes from isolated hero, who only wants to do things connected her ain - a lone wolf - to realizing, ‘Actually, I person this really cool squad down me.’"

Huo besides hinted astatine a shark brushwood successful Lara's future, truthful there's precocious hopes that immoderate classical Tomb Raider action is group to spell down successful play 2.

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