'Surface' Season 2's Trailer Slowly Remembers Its Existence

Most people probably missed Surface the first time around when it debuted on Apple TV +. The series initially arrived in 2022, about a month before the first season of Bad Sisters and less than a year after star Gugu Mbatha-Raw appeared in Max drama The Girl Before, another thriller about a woman struggling to discern reality from what people are telling her. Apple still primarily treated its streaming service back then like a free bonus that came with their new laptop or phone instead of promoting individual shows as worth paying for in and of themselves, regardless of what model device one prefers. Hopefully, with the new change in strategy, it plans to actually promote the arrival of Surface's second season.

If you missed the series when it first arrived, Mbatha-Raw stars as Sophie, who woke up five months ago in the hospital with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She's been told her name was Sophie and that she attempted suicide. Since then, she has been working with her therapist (the great Marianne Jean-Baptiste) to put her life and marriage to James (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) back together despite not remembering any of it.

Of course, nothing is as it seems on the surface. (Hey, look, we have a title!) Unfortunately, the first season suffered from Apple TV+'s lack of experience (as did many of its shows in the first couple of years), moving at a snail's pace that was far more suited to an old-school 24-episode season of TV instead of the faster paced, more dynamic shows that are only eight hours long, so there's little time for long broody installments without much plot momentum. If Season 2's trailer is anything to go by, it appears as though that problem has been at least addressed, if not outright fixed.