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Netflix has launched a brand new official clip from Arcane season 2, and it teases a probably fascinating alliance between Jinx and Sevika.
The newest teaser, which you’ll be able to watch under, sees Jinx working working for her life as she seemingly makes an attempt to evade seize from, properly, everyone. Certainly, the clip reveals her carrying a package deal of some kind, and my preliminary thought is that she’s making an attempt to eliminate the rocket launcher she used to assault Piltover’s council chamber within the season 1 finale. That callous act implies that not solely Piltover’s regulation enforcers are after her, however Zaun’s bounty hunters are prone to be, too, as they attempt to earn a fast payday for bringing her in.
Anyway, she’s shortly set upon by the Scrap Hackers, a brand new Zaun-based prison faction led by the Yordle often called Smeech who’ll make their debut in one of many finest Netflix reveals‘ second season. After a tense back-and-forth between Jinx and the body-augmented crime outfit, Jinx seems to be rescued by Sevika earlier than the clip ends.
What makes Jinx and Sevika’s reunion such an attention-grabbing proposition is that the latter does not know that Jinx killed Silco, aka the prison kingpin they labored for. By the top of Arcane‘s first season, Sevika is not conscious that Jinx took Silco’s life after he tried to homicide her sister Vi. For now, then, Jinx and Sevika stay allies, however for the way lengthy stays to be seen.
As I alluded to earlier, that is solely the most recent season 2 clip that Netflix has launched to whet our urge for food for the animated League of Legends (LoL) present’s return. In late July, one other clip confirmed Heimerdinger and Ekko infiltrating a Hexcore lab in Piltover, whereas an all-too-brief piece of footage in June teased new heroes, one other potential time bounce, and Vi’s new costume. Again in January, the first Arcane season 2 clip additionally recommended that we’ll see a fan-favorite LoL villain make their debut in Netflix’s TV adaptation of Riot Video games’ beloved online game franchise.
An official distraction from the massive Netflix knowledge breach?
Name me a cynic, however the timing of this newest clip’s launch appears a bit too coincidental. How so? As a result of, if you happen to weren’t conscious, Netflix has, on the time of writing, spent the previous 5 days battling a large leak after one among its post-production companions suffered a significant knowledge breach. That is led to full however unfinished episodes of Arcane season 2, Heartstopper season 3, and plenty of different reveals being posted on-line. Different initiatives, together with quite a few new Netflix films that’ll arrive earlier than 2024 ends, have additionally been impacted by the safety hack.
Outdoors of telling the press that it is “aggressively taking motion” to drag the leaks from the web, the PR staff for one of many world’s finest streaming providers hasn’t commented additional. A few film and TV present creators have commented, nevertheless, together with Arcane co-showrunner Christian Linke, who took to X/Twitter (see under) to publish a gif summing up his response to the leak.
Contemplating that this new clip was launched simply 48 hours after the primary studies emerged about Arcane season 2 episodes leaking on-line, I can not assist however really feel that it is a ploy on Netflix’s half. Certain, I might like to offer it and Riot the good thing about the doubt, and consider that this clip was all the time set to be unveiled on Saturday (August 10). Nonetheless, the timing is a bit too serendipitous for my liking. I will take an formally launched clip over an unfinished episode leak each day of the week, however I can not be the one one who’s viewing this as a mere distraction tactic from Netflix and firm to try to forestall individuals from trying to find mentioned leaked episodes.
