Is Harlem Season 2 Releasing In February 2023?

Amazon Prime Video‘s comedy television series ‘Harlem’ is scheduled to return this year with its Season 2 on February 3. Tracy Oliver created this series and also serves as an executive producer for the show. The plot of the series revolves around four women in their thirties all of whom live in Harlem.

Camille, Quinn, Angie, and Tye are close friends since they met at New York University as students. Through their close bonding, the four working professionals navigate the paths of love, career, and life.

Tracy Oliver shared the thought behind her idea of creating this television series as she said that she felt the lack of Black female friendship portrayed in the industry although there are a number of tv series dealing with the theme of female friendship.

She also expressed her desire to portray people trying to find the path of life despite being in their thirties. She used her own experiences as inspiration for this show. On July 8, 2019, the project was first announced. But due to the Covid pandemic, filming got delayed.

Also Read: Magnum P.I. Season 5 First Look, and Who’s Returning?

Harlem Season 2 Releasing Early?

The first season of ‘Harlem’ premiered on December 3, 2021, on Amazon Prime Video with ten episodes following the release of the official trailer on November 3, 2021. Amazon renewed Season 2 on February 17, 2022, which is set to be released on February 3, 2023.

Also Read: Is The Ark Coming in February 2023?

Cast Members of ‘Harlem’ Season 2:

As the four lead cast members of the series, we find Meagan Good as Camille, Grace Byers as Quinn, Shoniqua Shandai as Angie, and Jerrie Johnson as Tye. All of them were cast for the series on January 14, 2020.

Meagan Good

American actress Meagan Good gained prominence through her role in the 1997 Southern Gothic movie of America- ‘Eve’s Bayou‘. She attracted critical attention through her portrayal of Cisely Batiste. Good will reprises her role of Camille in the second season too.

Other movies in which Good starred include ‘The Secret Life of Girls‘, ‘3 Strikes‘, ‘Biker Boyz‘, ‘Deliver Us from Eva‘, ‘D.E.B.S.’, ‘You Got Served‘, ‘The Cookout‘, ‘Brick’, ‘Venom‘, ‘Roll Bounce‘, ‘Miles from Home‘ (for this she also served as producer), ‘Waist Deep’, ‘Stomp the Yard’, ‘One Missed Call’, ‘The Love Guru’, ‘Saw V’, ‘The Unborn’, ‘Jumping the Broom’, ’35 and Ticking’, ‘LUV’, ‘Dysfunctional Friends’, ‘Think Like a Man’, ‘The Obama Effect’, ‘Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues’, ‘Think Like a Man Too’, ‘A Girl Like Grace’ (for this too she served as producer), ‘Deuces’, ‘A Boy. A Girl.

A Dream.’, ‘Shazam!’, ‘The Intruder’, ‘Monster Hunter’, ‘Death Saved My Life’, ‘Day Shift’. In the upcoming superhero movie ‘Shazam! Fury of the Gods is scheduled to be released on March 17, 2023, Good will reprise her role of Super Hero Darla.

From 1998 to 2001 Good was cast in Nickelodeon’s children’s sitcom ‘Cousin Skeeter‘ in the role of Nina Jones which is her first important tv series role. As a recurring character Katie from 2001 to 2002, she starred in the sitcom ‘Raising Dad’.

Her other recurring role is as Vanessa Scott in season 3 of ABC’s sitcom ‘My Wife and Kids‘ in 2003. Other series in which Good was cast in recurring roles include ‘Kevin Hill’, season four of ‘The Game’, season five of ‘Californication’, and ‘Mr. Robinson, season one of ‘Code Black’, ‘White Famous’, seasons two and three of ‘Star’, and season one of ‘Prodigal Son’.

In 2013 Good starred as main cast member Joanna Locasto in NBC’s primetime soap opera ‘Deception‘. Then in 2015 in the sci-fi crime drama series ‘Minority Report’ she was cast as the primary character Detective Lara Vega.

Grace Byers

Caymanian actress Grace Byers will also be reprising her role as Quinn in the second season of the series. Byers began her career in 2012.

From 2015 to 2018 she was cast as series regular character Anika Calhoun in the musical drama series ‘Empire’. From 2018 to 2019 she starred as Reeva Payge in the superhero tv series ‘The Gifted‘ adapted from the X-Men properties of Marvel Comics.

Her two films are the 2018 American crime thriller series ‘Bent’ in which she played Kate and the 2022 comedy slasher movie ‘The Blackening’ in which she played Allison.

Shoniqua Shandai

A trained actress and singer Shoniqua Shandai can be seen portraying Angie in the series which will be reprised by her in Season 2. Previously she starred in ‘Miss Arizona‘, ‘Bodied’, ‘The Obituary of Tunde Johnson‘, ‘Sing It!’, ‘I Am the Night‘, etc.

Jerrie Johnson

Playing the queer fierce tech entrepreneur Tye, Jerrie Johnson can be seen starring in the series and will reprise this role in the upcoming new season. In the 2021 movie, ‘Mother’s Milk’ Johnson played a character named Sweetbird. In 2019 she was cast in the tv series ‘Good Trouble‘ which is the spin-off of the family drama series ‘The Fosters‘.