(Left) Rachel Brosnahan at CinemaCon 2025. Photo: Warner Bros. (Right) Jake Gyllenhaal in ‘Presumed Innocent,’ premiering June 12, 2024 on Apple TV+.
Preview:
- Rachel Brosnahan will lead the new season of ‘Presumed Innocent.’
- Showrunner David E. Kelley is returning.
- The season will adapt Jo Murray’s Dissection of a Murder.
Last year’s ‘Presumed Innocent’ proved to be a success for Apple TV+, with David E. Kelley, J.J. Abrams and more producing an adaptation of the Scott Turow courtroom thriller novel that was also brought to screens in 1990 as a movie.
The small screen version starred Jake Gyllenhaal as a prosecuting attorney whose life is thrown into chaos.
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For Season 2, however, the show is going the anthology route, with some brand new source material –– in this case, ‘Dissection of a Murder’, the debut legal thriller novel by Jo Murray.
Rachel Brosnahan, who broke out to Emmy-winning effect with ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,’ is aboard to lead the new season.
It’ll follow Leila Reynolds (Brosnahan) who has just been handed her first murder case. She’s way out of her depth but the defendant only wants her –– and to make matters worse, her husband is the prosecutor.
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What was the story of ‘Presumed Innocent’ Season 1?
(L to R) Jake Gyllenhaal and Bill Camp in ‘Presumed Innocent,’ premiering June 12, 2024 on Apple TV+.
‘Presumed Innocent’s first season starred Gyllenhaal as chief deputy prosecutor Rusty Sabich, as a horrific murder that upends the Chicago Prosecuting Attorney’s office when one of its own is suspected of the crime.
The series explores obsession, sex, politics, and the power and limits of love, as the accused fights to hold his family and marriage together.
Ruth Negga, Bill Camp, Elizabeth Marvel, Peter Sarsgaard, O-T Fagbenle and Renate Reinsve also starred, but given that Season 2 is going in a completely new direction, expect a whole new cast to support Brosnahan.
What else is Rachel Brosnahan working on?
(L to R) Rachel Brosnahan as Lois Lane, Skylar Gisondo as Jimmy and David Corenswet as Clark Kent in DC Studios’ and Warner Bros. Pictures’ ‘Superman’, a Warner Bros. Pictures release. Photo Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures. Copyright: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Brosnahan plays Lois Lane in director James Gunn’s ‘Superman,’ due in theaters on July 11th, and also has a lead role in Al Pacino’s new Shakespeare adaptation ‘Lear Rex,’ which has yet to lock down a release date.
When will ‘Presumed Innocent Season 2 be on screens?
Apple TV+ has yet to announce when the new season might premiere, but we’d have to guess 2026 at the earliest.
Rachel Brosnahan on Prime Video’s ‘The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.’