Amazon’s ‘Invincible’ Season 2 Finally Has A Release…Year

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While Amazon’s main superhero franchise, The Boys, has been trucking along with three seasons, an upcoming fourth, an animated series, plus a spin-off, its other superhero hit, Invincible, has been lagging way, way behind.

Invincible felt like a show that got hit especially hard by pandemic-era production delays, and season 1 debuted to great acclaim all the way back in April 2021. While the show was renewed in short order by Amazon for two more seasons pretty much right after it premiered, getting those seasons to…actually appear on TV has been something of a nightmare so far.

Collider got Vernon Sanders, Head of Television at Amazon, to explicitly confirm that Invincible season 3 would be out in 2023.

Amazon has not commented directly on Invincible season 2’s delay. The best we have is an interview with voice actor and Walking Dead veteran Khary Payton, who plays Black Samson, a few months ago in September 2022, speaking with SuperheroHype.

“We finished season two. We’re on to season three,” Payton said. “But it’s so hard to say right now. There was a glut of animation studios just trying to get so much done and literally it was like, projects sitting there with a backpack full of material. They’re like, ‘Anytime you’re ready.'”

“I am so glad they greenlit two and three at the same time because that means when 3 comes out, it will feel like just next season, and not like, a lifetime,” Payton said.

Invincible

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So, a few things we can gather from this. Namely if season 2 was already finished, at least voicework-wise, back in September, its 2023 release date is hopefully early 2023, rather than say, December 2023. Second, Payton says that there should not be this level of a delay next time because they’re already getting to work on season 3 now, ahead of season 2 coming out, so there won’t be this issue with animation backlog again to this degree.

Whatever has happened here, whether it’s simply a backlog of work in the industry or something else, hopefully from here on out we’ll get to see Invincible arrive in a more timely fashion, rather than a season every two years, which reflects the current pace. Amazon needs its hits where it can find them, and while Invincible may not have the megahype of The Boys or the budget of Rings of Power, season 1 is easily one of the best Amazon originals they’ve produced, and the show deserves to live a long life with priority given to regularly scheduled seasonal releases.

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