Apple TV’s Neglected Psychological Drama Returns After Three Years With Spectacular RT Rating

Drops of God is continuous to win over critics with season 2. The present, which is a Japanese-French-American co-production, relies on the manga of the identical identify and follows a gaggle of individuals preventing to inherit an property that features an costly wine assortment.

Drops of God season 1 debuted in 2023 and was a serious important success. Along with incomes an ideal 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, season 1 of the Apple TV sequence gained the Worldwide Emmy Award for Drama Sequence in 2024. In Might 2024, the sequence was renewed for season 2, which premiered on January 21, 2026.

Only a few days after its premiere, Drops of God season 2 has obtained sufficient evaluations from critics for it to earn an official Rotten Tomatoes rating. Whereas the rating might fluctuate as extra evaluations are added, on the time of writing, it has a stellar 86% aggregated from seven totally different evaluations, bringing the present’s total common rating to 93%.

Critics warn that there are some main tonal shifts within the new season, and that they will not attraction to all audiences (actually, these shifts are what earned the season its first and to this point solely Rotten overview). Nonetheless, for essentially the most half, season 2’s particular person optimistic evaluations are simply as glowing because the evaluations for season 1. Of the three evaluations that gave it scores out of 5, one gave it 4 and one gave it 5.

In the end, it stays to be seen if Drops of God is ready to proceed for one more season, as its viewership cannot fairly evaluate to that of Apple TV’s extra well-liked sequence, which embody the sci-fi drama Severance, the Monsterverse spinoff Monarch: Legacy of Monsters, and the Golden Globe-winning Vince Gilligan sequence Pluribus.

Whereas season 2 cannot fairly evaluate to the Rotten Tomatoes rating earned by the debut season, which made Drops of God one in all Rotten Tomatoes’ best-reviewed TV exhibits of 2023, it nonetheless has an opportunity of incomes a 3rd season if audiences get pleasure from it simply as a lot as critics at the moment are.

Along with its robust evaluations probably serving to to place extra eyes on the sequence, the price range for Drops of God is significantly decrease than the sci-fi sequence that the Apple TV platform is finest recognized for, which implies that it wants a a lot smaller return on funding so as to be thought of successful.