The second season of The Vince Staples Show finally has a premiere date and a new trailer, heading to Netflix on Nov. 6.
The series started on the Long Beach rapper’s YouTube page back in 2019 and was quickly picked up by Netflix, but the first season of the repackaged show didn’t premiere on the streaming service until 2024 due to the COVID pandemic. Often drawing comparisons to Donald Glover‘s Atlanta (Staples told Complex that he consulted Glover and his team), the show is loosely based on Vince Staples‘ life and has a surreal vibe to it. While the first season was centered on the random adventures and situations that he finds himself in as a somewhat famous person, the second season focuses on a death in the family and the trauma that comes with it, but in a way that can only come from the creative mind of Vince Staples.
Earlier this year, Staples explained how he helped Netflix executives grasp the concept of the show. “The way the show was written — and this was always the intention — The Vince Stapes Show is not about Vince Staples as a character,” the rapper and actor told the After Hours podcast. “It’s about a perspective. It’s The Vince Staples Show because I made it not because it’s about me. I think that was a hard thing for a lot of people to grasp. Going from writing for me and then writing for the characters it became kind of a disconnect because they’re expecting me to come in and write a show about myself, but I’m writing a show about other people and how they view me in the world.”
If you haven’t checked out the show yet, the first season’s logline reads as follows: “Who’s Vince Staples? Well, that’s a tricky question. He’s kind of famous, but he’s not. He’s kind of rich, but he’s not. He’s also kind of a criminal. But he’s…not? Follow him on his daily adventures, where anything that can go wrong usually does.”
Season 2 kicks off Thursday, Nov. 6.
Check out the trailer below.
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