Scheduled to hit theaters on March 6 and Netflix on March 20, 2026, Steven Knight fans would be forgiven for focusing solely on the upcoming release of the hotly-anticipated <em>Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man</em>. However, as one of the busiest men in the industry, you’re never too far from another Knight project’s debut, with the second season of the acclaimed boxing drama <em>A Thousand Blows</em> arriving last weekend on Hulu, Hulu on Disney+, and Disney+ and earning a wonderful immediate response.

Led by the brilliant Malachi Kirby, Stephen Graham, and Erin Doherty, with the latter two having just won Golden Globes for their respective performances in Netflix’s Adolescence, A Thousand Blows Season 2 has already outperformed the first on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, earning a near-perfect 92% score at the time of writing. Ahead of its arrival, Knight gave a hint at the future of the series in an interview, where he was asked about the second season’s ending and its seemingly forward-looking final moments that indicate more is still to come. “Always a view to the future, yeah,” Knight answered, with it seeming like a matter of ‘when’ and not ‘if’ a third season of A Thousand Blows is announced. A synopsis for Season 2 reads:

“Mary is back to reassemble the Forty Elephants and reclaim her crown. She sobers Sugar up, she has a use for him yet, and forms a reluctant alliance with Hezekiah to take down Indigo Jeremy once and for all. As always, Mary has a plan. And this time it’s riskier than ever.”

‘A Thousand Blows’ Season 2 Tests Its Characters

Moving from a successful first season into a second is no easy feat, given the high bar one has set for themselves. Questioned in the aforementioned interview about how Season 2 is different from its predecessor, Knight said, “I think the first season of anything, you’re doing a lot of work to get the characters established and also into the hearts of the viewers, and hopefully that’s happened with this, because I think response was amazing.” He continued, “And once people are invested in the characters, I think you’re then at liberty to go a bit deeper and be a bit more expansive with each of the characters.”

“What I wanted to do was to put them in situations where – and it does happen in the series – they really are put to the test,” Knight continued, adding, “And also to begin the series by splitting them up and then seeing how, like a force of gravity, they’re actually always going to come back together, because that’s who they are. So yeah, I really enjoyed getting those characters to do what those characters do, but also trying, where possible, to make it unexpected.”

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