A Review of “Cyberpunk: Edgerunners 2 (2026)”

Cyberpunk Edgerunners Season 2 is a captivating series with a fun cast of characters, great music, stylistic animation and an engaging plot. There is definitely a common theme for the story and it is clearly obsession. Whether it is obsession with revenge, cyberware, purpose, science, power or simply movies. We see what this does to the characters in Night City and it leads to an highly entertaining series.

However, it never ever reaches the high of season 1. There are multiple reasons for this:

It juggles multiple protagonist and subplots instead of being focused on mostly one protagonist like the previous season. Every character has their own different story that is very isolated from everyone elses. All the stories are still compelling but it is overwhelming and very unfocused.

This leads to the second issue where none of the protagonists ever interact with each other apart from the kid Roman. Season 1 had an enjoyable group dynamic with David, Lucy, Maine and Rebecca who all interacted with each other which made you care more for them. This new group in season 2 are only ever together on screen for barely a minute for the WHOLE season!

This really sucks because it really feels like they all could have had a fun dynamic. The two pivotal protagonist, D and Talia, don’t even have a proper conversation at all despite both being connected to main macguffin of the plot.

Roman and D have the most interactions throughout the series so you can really buy their relationship. The problem is that Roman doesn’t really interact with Talia that much. There is only one episode where it feels like a proper interaction between the two. Which is a shame because their interactions were really fun. This leads to a slight problem where it is slightly difficult to really buy that Roman and Talia would care about each other when they barely talked.

Despite all my complaints, I still give it a high score because in the end, I was still very engrossed in the world, mystery and the characters. I am glad they didn’t just rehash what season 1 did and actually did something new. Edgerunners 2 is still a worthy entry in the universe of Cyberpunk and I can’t wait to see what is next for this universe!

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