--- title: Mahnattan Season 2 Teaser - Watch description: The new season of the WGN America drama about the Manhattan Project returns this fall canonical: https://time.com/3935607/manhattan-season-2-trailer/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-25T16:30:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T08:32:20.191Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Watch the Teaser for the New Season of 'Manhattan' og:description: The second season of the WGN America drama returns this fall og:url: https://time.com/3935607/manhattan-season-2-trailer/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta115dd6591aefbdc/698858562dce017a199e459e/manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Manhattan WGN America og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch the Teaser for the New Season of 'Manhattan' twitter:description: The second season of the WGN America drama returns this fall twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta115dd6591aefbdc/698858562dce017a199e459e/manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=1920&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch a New Teaser for _Manhattan_ Season 2  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 25, 2015 4:30 PM UTC   by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Jun 25, 2015 4:30 PM UTC Secrets can be explosive—literally. That’s what’s at the crux of WGN America’s second-ever original series _Manhattan_, which takes a fictionalized look at the creation of the Manhattan Project in the small town of Los Alamos, New Mexico, and the personalities that get caught up in it. “_Manhattan_ began as one of those shows that seemed just good enough–one of the growing mass of competent cable series that I might watch regularly if I had 72 hours in a day,” wrote TIME television critic James Poniewozik, who called the show the season’s “secret weapon” [in his review of the first season](http://time.com/3524371/manhattan-the-tv-seasons-secret-weapon/). “I would fall behind and catch up, but as it went on, it grew into something special. Like _Masters of Sex_, it used a fictionalized version of history to tell human stories at the same time, while dramatizing the excitement of scientific discovery.” In addition to the show’s already winning combination of a period-drama premise, a New Mexico setting, morally ambiguous characters and the thrill of Soviet espionage, season two will add a number of new characters when it returns this fall. Mamie Gummer (_Emily Owens, M.D., The Good Wife_) joins the cast as a spy named Nora sharing secrets with the Soviets; Griffin Dunne (_Dallas Buyers Club_) will play a journalist who gets on the trail of the project; and William Petersen play the religious Colonel Emmett Darrow, a man convinced that atomic bombs are God’s will. Get a taste of the new season in a new teaser premiering at TIME, above. _Read next:_ [_Lucy Lawless Explains the Gruesome History Behind_ ](http://time.com/3769840/lucy-lawless-salem-xena-interview/)[Salem_’s ‘New Kind of Horror’_](http://time.com/3769840/lucy-lawless-salem-xena-interview/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3935607/manhattan-season-2-trailer/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3935607/manhattan-season-2-trailer/"},"headline":"Watch a New Teaser for Manhattan Season 2","datePublished":"2015-06-25T16:30:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T08:32:20.191Z","description":"The new season of the WGN America drama about the Manhattan Project returns this fall","url":"https://time.com/3935607/manhattan-season-2-trailer/","keywords":["Television","manhattan"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta115dd6591aefbdc/698858562dce017a199e459e/manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Nolan Feeney","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta115dd6591aefbdc/698858562dce017a199e459e/manhattan.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Manhattan WGN America","caption":"Manhattan WGN America","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3935607/manhattan-season-2-trailer/","name":"Watch a New Teaser for Manhattan Season 2"}}]}] ```