The Legend of Vox Machina – Official Season 2 First Look Clip
Critical Role: The Legend of Vox Machina, an Amazon animated series based on a years-long game of Dungeons & Dragons, was promised a second season way back in 2019. On Saturday fans — who’ve dubbed themselves Critters — got their first look at teaser footage for season 2. The premiere was unveiled during the 2022 New York Comic Con, and came with a release window: January 2023.
That said, Legend of Vox Machina isn’t stopping at just two seasons. During its New York Comic Con panel, the Critical Role cast revealed that the series had been renewed for a third season, since in Matthew Mercer’s words, adapting this one arc in just a dozen episodes would be “daunting.” But first on the docket is season two, which will arrive on Prime Video in January 2023.
During the live Comic-Con panel, the entire crowd erupted in massive cheers when they learned the show would be getting another season. The several hundred-strong crowd that packed most of the Empire ballroom of the Javits Center late Thursday included more than a dozen cosplayers dressed as the show’s titular characters.
Critical Role is an actual play troupe founded in 2015 and lead by Dungeon Master Matthew Mercer. He and his co-creators — Laura Bailey, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Liam O’Brien, Matthew Mercer, Marisha Ray, Sam Riegel, and Travis Willingham — are all experienced actors, with credits ranging from major motion pictures to beloved video games. The Vox Machina cartoon itself began life as a crowdfunding campaign, raising more than $11 million on Kickstarter in 2019 before being snatched up by Amazon. Season 1 focused on a storyline familiar to fans, culminating with a battle against the powerful Briarwood vampires.
Mercer is currently leading the troupe through a third season of the actual play D&D campaign. Episodes premiere on Twitch Thursdays at 10 pm EST, with video on demand episodes arriving on YouTube the following week.
