HBO has released the official trailer for the eight-episode second season of creator Sally Wainwright’s “Gentleman Jack” ahead of its April 25 debut. “Gentleman Jack” is The story of pioneering lesbian Anne Lister, a mountaineer, landowner, businesswoman, and prolific diarist who “wrote in code in part about her sexual trysts and love affairs with women,” as nicely contextualized by the Advocate. The series is a Lookout Point production for HBO and is co-produced with BBC One. Season one is available to stream on HBO Max. Here’s the official synopsis:
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Yorkshire, 1834. All eyes are on Anne Lister and Ann Walker as they set up home together at Shibden Hall as wife and wife, determined to combine their estates and become a power couple. Anne Lister’s entrepreneurial spirit frightens the locals as much as her unconventional love life, and, with Halifax on the brink of revolution, her refusal to keep a low profile becomes provocative and dangerous.
Season two will again use the real-life diaries of Anne Lister—part of which were written in code—as its source, with every part of Lister’s story based on historical fact and the five million words she wrote in her journals.
The season two cast stars Gemma Jones as Aunt Anne Lister, Timothy West as Jeremy Lister, Jodhi May (Lady Vere Cameron), Katherine Kelly (Elizabeth Sutherland), Derek Riddell (Captain George Sutherland), Stephanie Cole (Aunt Ann Walker), Peter Davison (William Priestley), Amelia Bullmore (Eliza Priestley), Vincent Franklin (Christopher Rawson), Shaun Dooley (Jeremiah Rawson), Rosie Cavaliero (Elizabeth Cordingley), Joe Armstrong (Samuel Washington), Anthony Flanagan (Ben Sowden) and George Costigan (James Holt).
“Gentleman Jack” returns for a second season on April 25 on HBO Max. Watch the new trailer below.