Review: The Day of the Jackal – Season 2
Score: 9.5/10
A climactic twist that makes season 1 just a prelude
If season 1 of The Day of the Jackal was a tense chess game between the perfect assassin (Eddie Redmayne) and the indomitable MI6 agent (Lashana Lynch), then season 2 is when the chessboard is flipped, the pieces fall free, and the audience is thrown straight into a spiral with no way out.
Plot: From chase to counter-hunt
Opening with a haunting slow-motion scene: Jackal – now with a new face, a new identity – stands in the middle of a Parisian crowd, watching the last victim of season 1 being buried. No dialogue, just the sound of a heartbeat and the tinkling of a violin. The first 30 seconds signal: this season is no longer a chase, but a psychological war.
Jackal is no longer after money. He is after memories. A secret organization (let’s call it “The Syndicate”) has hacked into the global biometric system, turning every face into a weapon. The Jackal is a pawn in a larger game – or so he thinks. Meanwhile, Bianca (Lashana Lynch) is no longer a lone agent. She now leads a multinational task force, but her haunting past has her starting to doubt her own allies.

Technical & Performance Highlights

Eddie Redmayne: Forget the cold-hearted Jackal from Season 1. This season, he smiles. A twisted, half-crazed, half-pained smile as he remembers his dead wife (a plot twist that shocked the entire Season 1 fandom). The scene where he pretends to be the father of a child in a kindergarten to get close to his target? Oscar-worthy.
Lashana Lynch: From “hunter” to “hunted”. There’s a 12-minute uncut scene where Bianca confronts an AI clone of herself – created from season 1 data – and wonders, “Am I hunting myself?”

Cinematography: Director Xavier Gens turns London into a glass maze (a subway chase scene with neon lights reflecting off glass – breathtakingly beautiful).

Biggest twist (no spoilers)

Episode 6. 42 minutes. A character thought dead from season 1 appears with the line:

“You think you’re Jackal? No, you’re just a draft.”

The internet explodes. Reddit crashes. Twitter (no, X) trends #RealJackal for 48 hours straight.
The only downside
Episode 3 is a bit slow (there’s a 7-minute flashback to Jackal’s childhood). But that’s the price to pay for building up to the season finale twist – one so open-ended it makes you want to smash your remote.

Conclusion
Season 2 not only upgrades the series, it redefines the thriller genre. If season 1 was Jason Bourne, then season 2 is Black Mirror meets The Manchurian Candidate in a digital nightmare.
Watch now. But remember: don’t trust any face on screen. Not even your own face in the mirror.
Special: The post-credits scene at the end of episode 10 hints that season 3 will take place in… Vietnam. A new assassin. A new target. And a question: “Who is the real Jackal?”