The 'Star Wars' Franchise Intensifies its Popularity with the Second Season of ‘Star Wars: The Bad Batch’

George Lucas’ Star Wars has born many other films, short films, television shows, and TV specials since its development in 1977. Some TV series from the franchise include Andor, Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book of Boba Fett, The Mandalorian, and the recently-added Star Wars: The Bad Batch. 

Star Wars: The Bad Batch premiered on Disney+ in May 2021 with sixteen episodes for the first season, attracting 7.8/10 stars and an 86% average Tomatometer (supported by an 82 average audience score) on Rotten Tomatoes. 

Disney+ revealed that Star Wars: The Bad Batch season two would premiere in early January 2023.

As a sequel to Star Wars: The Clone Wars (also part of the Star Wars franchise), Star Wars: The Bad Batch follows four improved commandos, Tech, Echo, Wrecker, and Hunter, alongside their female trainee, Omega. 

During its outer space explorations, the crew reunites some enemies, friends, and lost colleagues. 

The upcoming season will resume with more life-threatening missions that will take viewers to new destinations.

Star Wars took to its primary YouTube Channel to share the official trailer for its upcoming, The Bad Batch season two. 

In 2 minutes and 4 seconds, the trailer offers a comprehensive visual description of the installment, starting with a battle at sea to more than what the previous season had.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch is created by Dave Filoni, with Brad Rau as the supervising director and Josh Rimes as the producer. 

The show is a co-production of Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation, with chief producers Ray, Filoni, Jennifer Corbett, and Athena Y. Portillo.

Star Wars: The Bad Batch doesn’t have a broad main cast list since Dee Bradley Baker voices all the Bad Batch crew members, including Echo, Tech, Wrecker, and Hunter. 

Michelle Ang, on the other side, portrays the Bad Batch trainee, Omega. Other characters include Ben Diskin, Gwendoline Yeo, Bob Bergen, Rhea Perlman, and Sam Riegel.

Season two of Star Wars: The Bad Batch will launch on Wednesday, Monday, January 4, 2023, with sixteen episodes. 

The first two episodes will launch on the above date, followed by weekly releases (although episodes 7 and 8 will premiere at once) until March 29, 2023.