Overview
- Shay Rudolph’s guest-star casting as Summer Di Laurentis was revealed by Rudolph and co-star Stephen Kalyn in an Instagram video reported on August 13 by multiple outlets.
- Season 2 is set to center on the romance between Allie Hayes and Dean Di Laurentis, moving that relationship to the show’s main storyline.
- The series will retain its core returning cast and creative team, including Mika Abdalla, Stephen Kalyn, Ella Bright, Belmont Cameli, Antonio Cipriano, Jalen Thomas Brooks, India Fowler, co-showrunners Louisa Levy and Gina Fattore, and Temple Hill executive producers.
- Season 1’s strong launch — cited as Prime Video’s No. 3 most-viewed debut season with about 36 million viewers in its first 12 days — underpins high fan expectations for Season 2 and helps explain direct talent-led social announcements for casting.
- Coverage contains an unresolved discrepancy about Rudolph’s prior ties to a Disney+ Holes reboot, with one outlet saying the project did not move forward and another saying she leads it, a detail that has not been reconciled in current reports.