Fox has released a trailer for the second season of its espionage thriller series Deep State which promises to delve deeper into the murky and political world of the deep state, introducing a number of new characters whilst exploring the origins of several familiar faces from the first season; watch the trailer here…
As Season Two opens, we find Harry Clarke (Joe Dempsie) and Leyla Toumi (Karima McAdams) still reeling from the fall out of Season One’s debacle in Tehran. Harry has taken himself out of active duty completely and it is only at the insistence of Leyla, that he is dragged back into the deeply secretive and deadly dangerous world of the deep state.
The deep state is on the threshold of reaping enormous rewards from a US Government deal that is being brokered with Mali, a sub-Saharan country replete in vast natural resources hugely valuable to the Western World’s insatiable appetite for technological advancement. The deal is suddenly plunged into jeopardy when three US special forces operatives and a Malian translator are ambushed and supposedly killed.
The deep state hastily deploys Nathan Miller (Walton Goggins), an ex-CIA operative, to ensure, at any cost, the deal is completed, but his actions are thwarted when the Malian translator, Aïcha Konaté (Lily Banda) contacts Leyla and informs her of the actual events surrounding her supposed death. Complicating matters for Miller are Meaghan Sullivan (Victoria Hamilton), a Republican Senator from Ohio, with an insatiable appetite for the uncovering the truth about the deep state and Aminata Sissoko (Zainab Jah), a senior advisor to the Malian President who is the deep state’s main obstacle in gaining a foothold in her country. A past storyline reconnects with last season’s George White (Alistair Petrie), a senior MI6 agent and Amanda Jones (Anastasia Griffith), a CIA operative and the introduction of Issouf Al Moctar (Alexander Siddig), a Tuareg leader of an armed independence group. From here on in, viewers are taken on another extraordinary, helter-skelter journey in which Harry and Leyla must do everything in their power to stop the insidious advancement of the malignant network that is known as the deep state.
Season two of Deep State is set to premiere on Fox in the Spring.
