Maxton Hall – The World Between Us Season 2 Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
A beautiful shot of Oxford University opens up the first episode, as Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten)’s voice begins her narration, stating that the future belongs to “those who believe in their dreams,” and wondering why Oxford is known as “the city of the dreaming spires.” Afterwards, she is seen heatedly making out with James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), as they snap a selfie of them cuddling to remember this beautiful moment.
At the end of the show’s first season, Ruby and James were left facing different kinds of emotions. Ruby was happy that James started dating her, but James had to face the tragedy of the sudden death of his mother, which filled him with rage and grief. As we open Season 2, Ruby is seen entering the Maxton Hall boarding school campus after spending the summer with James in London, where we see her meeting up with her best friend Lin Wang (Andrea Guo) and Kieran Rutherford (Frederic Balonier).
When they enter the building, Headmaster Lexington (Thomas Douglas) asks Ruby to come with him to his office, where he tells her that the head of the Campbell Foundation (Proshat Madani) gave Ruby a work opportunity in which she could be part of the event planning committee for Campbell’s gala, and she accepts to send in an application.
However, James is nowhere to be seen on campus; he’s too busy partying. Ruby and Lydia, the sister of James, crash the party uninvited, where they spot an inebriated James cheating on Ruby with another girl named Elaine. This upsets Ruby, of course, and sets the course of the second season’s drama in motion.
Second seasons of shows usually start light, slowly putting to focus on what the main characters will be going through during the episodes. Instead, this season jumps right into things and the plot starts unfolding all at once; if you like non-stop drama, you’ll have a blast.
There are many outstanding performances in this show, but Damian Hardung deserves his flowers first and foremost for his heartbreaking performance as James Beaufort. He is able to show how truly distressing his scenes are in this season, pouring everything he has into this role of this grieving and unstable teen.
