PULL ON YOUR BOOTS — LEANNE MORGAN IS BACK AND SHE’S RAISING A RUCKUS. 💥 The Southern queen of real-life chaos storms back to Netflix with more family feuds, more untold truths, and one shockingly charming new romance that’s bound to stir the pot. Season 2 brings jaw-dropping confessions, long-buried secrets cracking wide open, and that perfect blend of laugh-’til-you-cry humor and raw emotion fans fell in love with. As Leanne teased: “We’re coming back louder, messier, and more real than ever!” 💬
Hearts are breaking, forgiveness is slipping, and this Tennessee firecracker is about to make choices that change everything. Will she take Andrew’s risk? Can she face Bill’s regrets? And what is Carol hiding that no one dares to mention? Because when the truth finally hits the porch, laughter might be the only thing keeping this family from falling apart. 🔥
Sweet tea is about to boil over in Knoxville, and the only thing louder than the cicadas will be the gasps from your living room. Netflix’s sleeper smash Leanne returns for Season 2 on December 12, 2025, and if the first season was a gentle porch-swing heart-to-heart, this one is a full-blown Tennessee thunderstorm — lightning strikes of betrayal, torrents of laughter, and one very inconvenient romance that no one saw coming. Leanne Morgan, the 60-year-old Southern comedy phenom who turned her real-life divorce into a cultural juggernaut, is back in the multi-cam driver’s seat, and she’s steering straight into chaos with a lead foot and a wink. “Y’all did this for us,” she posted on X the day renewal was announced, “and we can’t wait to be back!” Translation: Buckle up, buttercup — the family nerves are frayed, the secrets are cracking, and the only thing holding this house together is Leanne’s laugh-til-you-snort honesty.
Season 1 left us mid-sob and mid-snort: Bill (Ryan Stiles), the RV-mogul husband of 33 years, had just walked out with a duffel bag and a younger woman’s perfume on his collar. Leanne — our heroine, a church-raised grandma with a mouth like honey and a spine like rebar — was left staring at an empty recliner and a lifetime of “what now?” Fast-forward six months in show time, and Season 2 picks up with Leanne not curled up in fetal position. She’s waitressing at a honky-tonk, selling Tupperware on the side, and — in the biggest jaw-drop of the trailer — locking lips in the parking lot with Andrew McAllister (guest star Jason Biggs), the divorced dad of her grandson’s Little League coach. Yes, that Jason Biggs. “I told Chuck Lorre I wanted somebody who could make the audience go ‘NO SHE DIDN’T,’” Morgan laughed in a Variety cover story. “And Jason walked in eating pie. It was destiny.”
But this isn’t a rom-com detour — it’s a Molotov cocktail lobbed into an already smoldering family. Bill wants back in (with conditions). Leanne’s sister Carol (Kristen Johnston, sharper than a switchblade) is hiding a secret so radioactive that even Mama Margaret (Celia Weston) is chain-smoking Virginia Slims in the pantry. And the kids? Son Beau (Graham Rogers) is spiraling in a get-rich-quick crypto scheme, while daughter-in-law Hannah (Hannah Pilkes) is pregnant again — and the paternity test envelope is sitting unopened on the kitchen counter like a live grenade.
Let’s break down the five-alarm fires burning in the Season 2 trailer (dropped at 3 a.m. ET and already at 12 million views):
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The Andrew Kiss — 0:42 mark. Leanne, in a leopard-print cardigan, full-on makes out with Jason Biggs against his pickup truck while “Jolene” plays on the radio. Cut to Carol hissing, “You’re 60, not 16 — act like it!”
Bill’s Grovel — Ryan Stiles, looking like a man who’s slept in his Winnebago for 40 nights, shows up at Leanne’s door with a diamond tennis bracelet and the line, “I built the business for us, Lee-Lee. Don’t throw 33 years in the trash.”
Carol’s Secret — Kristen Johnston in a courthouse hallway, whispering to a lawyer: “If this gets out, Mama will disown me faster than you can say ‘bless your heart.’” The camera pans to a manila envelope stamped DNA RESULTS.
The Honky-Tonk Brawl — Leanne, in a bedazzled “Grandma’s Still Got It” tee, throws a pitcher of sweet tea at Bill’s new girlfriend during open-mic night. Chaos ensues.
The Final Frame — Leanne, alone on the porch at dusk, voice cracking: “I spent 33 years forgiving that man. Now I gotta figure out how to forgive myself.” Smash to black. Cue collective audience meltdown.
Chuck Lorre, who flew to Tennessee after bingeing Morgan’s 2023 special I’m Every Woman, told The Hollywood Reporter the new season is “Roseanne meets Steel Magnolias with a dash of Reba’s bite.” Co-creator Susan McMartin (Mom) added, “We’re not afraid to go dark — divorce, addiction, infertility, money shame — but every gut-punch is followed by a laugh so loud you’ll wake the neighbors.” The writers’ room leaned hard into Morgan’s real-life playbook: her ex-husband’s RV exit, her late-blooming comedy career, even the Tupperware side hustle. “If it happened to me in Bean Station, Tennessee,” Morgan says, “it’s fair game.”

The ensemble is firing on all cylinders. Kristen Johnston’s Carol — dry martini wit, wet bar secrets — gets a meaty arc involving a long-lost daughter and a paternity scandal that threatens to nuke the family tree. Celia Weston’s Mama Margaret delivers one-liners like shotgun blasts (“I raised two girls — one’s a saint, one’s a sinner, and I’m still deciding which is which”). And the kids? Beau’s crypto crash lands him in hot water with a loan shark who looks suspiciously like a Yellowstone cameo. Even the grandkids get punchlines — 8-year-old Juniper (new series regular Everly Carganilla) steals scenes with deadpan zingers about “Grandma’s new boyfriend who smells like pie.”
Early buzz is volcanic. The trailer’s YouTube comments are a war zone of caps-lock:
“ANDREW WHO?! BILL DESERVES THE SWEET TEA BATH 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽”
“If Carol’s secret is what I think it is… I need a support group.”
“Leanne Morgan is the comfort food we didn’t know we needed in 2025.”
Critics who praised Season 1’s “throwback warmth” (THR) are already calling Season 2 “the rare sitcom that gets bolder in year two.” IndieWire teases: “Morgan weaponizes her vulnerability — every tear is earned, every laugh is a landmine.” Even the New York Times — not known for sitcom love — admits, “In a TV landscape of cynicism, Leanne is a molasses-sweet antidote that still bites.”
Behind the scenes, the renewal was a no-brainer. Season 1 debuted in Netflix’s Global Top 10 for 19 days, spawned a viral sound on TikTok (“I’m 60, not dead!”), and turned Morgan into the platform’s most-booked talk-show guest (Fallon, Kimmel, The View — she collected mugs like Pokémon cards). Lorre and Netflix brass greenlit Season 2 before the finale aired, a rarity for a rookie comedy. Filming wrapped in October under secrecy so tight that even the craft services guy signed an NDA.
Thematically, Season 2 doubles down on forgiveness vs. self-preservation. Leanne’s journey isn’t just “Will she take Bill back?” — it’s “Does she owe anyone her future?” Morgan, who finalizes her own divorce this year, told People: “I’m not preaching. I’m just saying: Sometimes the bravest thing a woman can do is choose herself — and then laugh about it on national television.”
Mark your calendars, set your reminders, and grab the sweaters — because on December 12, Leanne Morgan is bringing the heat. Relationships will dangle by dental floss. Secrets will detonate like propane tanks. And somewhere between the honky-tonk brawls and the porch-swing confessions, you’ll laugh so hard you’ll forget forgiveness is optional.
As Leanne herself says in the trailer’s final frame, voice steady, eyes twinkling: “I spent 33 years keeping the peace. Now? I’m fixing to start a ruckus.”
Consider the ruckus started.