Helix Season 2

Helix Season 2 is currently streaming on , and it earns its premise rather than just borrowing genre trappings. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 482 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. Billy Campbell's performance is the anchor the more ambitious scenes need. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Helix Season 2 arrived without much fanfare and built its audience the hard way — through word of mouth. What makes Helix Season 2 work is that the ideas never crowd out the people having them. After barely escaping with their lives, the survivors of season one attempt to move on from the horrors that took place at Arctic Biosystems. But when their work takes them to a mysterious and remote wooded island, they quickly discover the Ilaria Corporation's reach is deeper and darker than anyone imagined, and a deadly new virus will present a threat that no one thought possible. Billy Campbell and Meegwun Fairbrother lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 2015. What separates Helix Season 2 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Viewers burned by ambitious sci-fi that could not sustain its premise should give Helix Season 2 a chance. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Billy Campbell's performance is the anchor the more ambitious moments need. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

🎬 Helix Season 2 — Episode Guide

San Jose

2015-01-16

15 months after the events at Arctic Biosystems, new CDC team with the addition of biotoxicologist Kyle Sommer respond to a potential outbreak on a Windjammer in the Northern Pacific. Their search leads them to an island occupied by a mysterious cult led by the charismatic Michael. Meanwhile, 30 yea...

Reunion

2015-01-23

The CDC team continue to investigate the island; at the same time, they discover Peter's brother, Alan, is a member of Brother Michael's cult, and his warnings for them to leave the abbey fall on deaf ears.

Scion

2015-01-30

Peter and Jordan leave the safety of the Abbey to retrieve some specimens and discover just what’s living in the woods, meanwhile Sister Amy plots to make them leave forever.

Densho

2015-02-06

As Michael struggles to keep the abbey under control, the CDC team moves closer toward tracking the source of the pathogen. Alan fights the urge to rejoin his team and confronts the reality about Peter’s allegiances. In the future, Walker makes a desperate attempt to escape from her delusional fathe...

Oubliette

2015-02-13

Michael locks Peter and Alan in a pit. Alan escapes and discovers that Kyle has a secret of his own. Agnes reveals a shocking truth to Michael, who drastically turns on her for doubting him. In the future, Caleb uncovers Walker's deception and takes matters into his own hands.

M. Domestica

2015-02-20

Amy creates an outbreak of the disease. Michael torments Peter in the pit. Alan, Jordan and Kyle discover the truth about the Abbey's food chain. An uprising at the Abbey threatens the safety of the uninfected. In present-day Paris, Balleseros meet an unlikely immortal.

Cross-Pollination

2015-02-27

As Peter gains a new cellmate, Michael takes extreme action when his followers begin to mutiny.

Vade in Pace

2015-03-06

The Coast Guard arrives on the island to take the CDC team to another island to deal with another outbreak of the pathogen. Meanwhile, Sister Amy has to contend with Brother Michael and his plans.

Ectogenesis

2015-03-13

Alan, Kyle and Winger search the woods for the tree with red sap that might be a cure for the pathogen.

E10

Mother

2015-03-20

The Abbey becomes a house of horrors as Kyle struggles with his infection and Anne begins to shape a successor to Michael.

E11

Plan B

2015-03-27

The Navy prepare to implement Plan B, a final solution to ensure that the virus and everyone infected with it never make it off the island.

E12

The Ascendant

2015-04-03

The uninfected are hiding in a secret bunker on the base as the CDC attempt to retrieve the canisters with the virus and the cure while the Ilaria assassins capture Hatake and force him to chose between which one of his children they will kill first.

E13

O Brave New World

2015-04-10

Kyle rescues Dr. Sarah Jordan as Alan Farragut fights his own brother, Peter Farragut.