Jeff Daniels Teases Widening Murder Conspiracy in ‘American Rust’ Season 2 Trailer

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Jeff Daniels as eternally glum police chief Del Harris returns for a widening murder conspiracy in the second-season trailer for American Rust: Broken Justice, which dropped Monday.

After the sudden, mysterious death of a former police officer in Pennsylvania’s rust belt in the rookie season is not quite solved by Harris, to say the least, the second-season trailer for American Rust: Broken Justice returns to the fictional town of Buell, where a compromised Del and Grace Poe (Maura Tierney) try to rebuild their lives.

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That’s until the trailer reveals a series of unrelated murders that may add up to a much larger conspiracy closing in on a tight-knit town. “We never really do move on, do we?” Del questions at one point.

The fateful wrench from the first-season finale cover-up surfaces, as does Del fretting over how to protect the murder suspect and son of his sometimes girlfriend Grace. “I want you to trust me,” she tells him at one point during a phone call.

“It’s me, I don’t trust,” Del answers. The sophomore season of American Rust, which last aired in 2021 on Showtime, will premiere on Prime Video — now accepting commercials — rather than the previously announced ad-supported Amazon streamer Freevee.

In the series, based on Philipp Meyer’s novel of the same name, Daniels and Tierney are joined by returning stars David Alvarez (West Side Story), Alex Neustaedter (Colony), Julie Mayorga (Rare Objects), Mark Pellegrino (Supernatural), Rob Yang (Succession) and Kyle Beltran (Inventing Anna).

New season two castmembers include Luna Lauren Velez (Dexter), Marc Menchaca (Ozark), Nick Sandow (Orange Is the New Black), Britian Seibert (A Murder at the End of the World), Christopher Denham (Billions), Amelia Workman (FBI), Leon Addison Brown (The Knick) and Sara Lindsey (High Desert).

Dan Futterman returns as showrunner and executive produces alongside Adam Rapp, Daniels, Paul Martino, Michael De Luca, Ivan Schneeberg, David Fortier, Nick Nantell, Katie O’Connell Marsh and Elisa Ellis. Boat Rocker produces the series for Amazon.

All 10 episodes of the second season will be available to stream March 28.

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