Primalseason 2 has just announced its official release date and dropped its trailer. It’s an exciting day for Genndy Tartakovsky fans who had worried the show was canceled or got lost in production. But no, the series is still riding its screaming, blood-covered dinosaur straight at our screens on June 01, 2025.Primal’s trailer featured many incredible shots to get us excited for next season. Typically, these things hold just one or two surprises, but Tartakovsky looks like he will just keep rolling out the hits.Primalseason 2will premiere on Adult Swim and HBOMax.
In the interim ofPrimal’s release, the show won five Emmys and has been hailed as Tartakovsky’s most brutal creation ever. The show’s trailer gave us a little peek at exactly what we’ll be seeing in these next ten episodes, and it looks like a lot more than just the continuing search for Mira. We were flooded with images of not just violence and dinosaurs but culture, religion, technology, and a giant demon?
In this breakdown, we’ll look at the trailer frame by frame to squeeze out every possible fact and speculate on what the future might hold for Fang and Spear. But if there’s one thing we can say for certain, it’s that the show truly isPrimal.
Ancient Cultures & Dinos
Who doesn’t love those super extreme movies that start their trailers on nothing but a dark screen and intense brassy note that sounds like you woke up next to a docking barge? The beginning ofPrimal’s trailer does just that. It feels like you’re about to see a Christopher Nolan movie or get a look at a new horror flick. But no, you’re about to witness the brutality of humanity at its very root.
From there, we cut into, what else, but a giant Apatosaurus leaping to crush someone in a field of spurting lava geysers. Truly, this single shot can sum up the pure elemental violence that the show exhibits. But after this “title shot,” we get a series of quickly-paced framesshowing Spear and Fangin different fights. What’s interesting here is that they are always fighting different people. That is to say, Spear is engaged in fighting what looks like different cultures of ancient people from around the world, as well as a few dinosaurs.
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The first 2-second fight shows Spear smashing a man in the face with his new shield. The man holds a long, oval-shaped shield and brandishes a sickle, both often used as tools of war in ancient African cultures. The man also wears a small headdress that is reminiscent of a pharaoh. The next fight shows Spear jumping into a crowd of warriors, landing with both feet and kicking someone right in the face. These unfortunate gentlemen are styled with blue paint on their bodies, a traditional sign of the Pictish people. ThePicts were a tribethat lived in what is now Scotland and are famous for turning the Romans around on their push North through the British Isles. This will be an interesting fight because we all know how much Tartakovsky loves Scottish folk.
Next, we see Fang fighting what might be an Allosaurus over some dead food. Then, Spear defends himself from a red-bearded man who looks suspiciously like the famous ScotsmanfromSamurai Jack. This scene goes right into a shot of Spear jumping off a giant turtle as it leaps out of the ocean.
Facing the Demon
This is an excellent point to separate the trailer because the next thing we see is a priestess falling limp to the ground. After she does so, the trailer takes a turn as Fang and Spear are both wounded. Fang takes a claw to the face, and Spear is pierced by a full volley of arrows. The priestess seems to have collapsed out of will, as if she were prostrating herself before someone or under the influence of some kind of drug.
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After that, an interesting image: Fang and Spear are riding a raft over fast water. This must be how they follow the boat seen rowing out of sight at the end of season 1. Then, Spear leaps out of some fog to surprise a group of archers in a small boat. The archers appear to be wearing bronze armor similar to Greek or Macedonian soldiers of the Bronze Age. Instantly, Spear is locked in a wrought-iron cage and struggles in vain against the bars. Then, Fang jumps out of the sky to bite the head off of some poor unfortunate soul.
Next, we see Spear riding atop a giant vulture that appears to have been harnessed. He turns behind him to see the same Scotsman-looking fellow from before. After that, Fang narrowly escapes the jaws of a Megalodon.
Then, the most jarring image of the trailer: Spear stands before a massive, horned demon seated upon a giant throne. A reverse shot shows the priestess from before sitting on her own throne. This chair, however, is adorned in gold withan Egyptian aesthetic. Flanked by two guards, a jaguar lies lazily on her steps, and a child cowers in the corner. The silhouette of a man rises covered in flames. Hundreds of walled archers fire at will into an attacking force.
And finally, a blood-drenched face stares wide-eyed into the void. This isPrimal.
