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Season guide

Amen: Season 2

21 episodes Premiered Oct 3, 1987
Previously on Amen

Season 2 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Amen Season 1.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 2 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 2: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (18): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S2·E1 Mytharc

California Dreaming

Oct 3, 1987

Reuben contemplates accepting a new job in Los Angeles.

S2·E2 Core

Dancing in the Dark

Oct 17, 1987

A rivalry is renewed when Deacon Frye is pitted against an old law-school classmate, in defending a palimony suit. Deacon Frye decides to settle their rivalry in court.

S2·E4 Core

Dueling Ministers

Oct 31, 1987

Rev. Johnny returns to give a sermon at the church.

S2·E5 Core

Thelma's Reunion

Nov 7, 1987

As Thelma's high school reunion approaches, Thelma dreads coming to the reunion because of the way her life has turned out, and especially because of her old friend, Darlene Moore

S2·E6 Core

Deacon on the Line

Nov 14, 1987

The Deacon is left to his own devices when a teen-hotline caller threatens suicide.

S2·E9 Core

Thelma's Birthday

Dec 5, 1987

Deacon Frye slips and falls while shovelling snow, and hurts his back. The doctor treating the Deacon's back becomes romantically interested in Thelma, and competes with Rev. Greg

S2·E10 Core

Thelma's Little Girl

Dec 12, 1987

Thelma becomes a foster parent to a precocious nine-year-old girl.

S2·E12 Core

Snakes Alive

Jan 2, 1988

After the Deacon runs out of the church in mortal terror, the Reverend discovers that his panic was due to a fake rubber snake someone had left behind. And because of that inciden

S2·E13 Core

Man on a Ledge

Jan 16, 1988

Frye tries to erase Thelma's angry phone message.

S2·E14 Core

To Catch a Thief

Jan 23, 1988

After money from the collection plate comes up missing, the Reverend and the Hetebrinks believe that Jeanette may have stolen it. And when Jeanette buys Thelma an expensive gift,

S2·E15 Core

The Widow

Feb 6, 1988

An attractive church benefactor eyes Reuben.

S2·E16 Core

Stranded

Feb 20, 1988

At a church retreat in the mountains, the Deacon has a spiritual reawakening after almost freezing to death during a blizzard. Thanks to Amelia, who took quick action to help save

S2·E17 Core

Deacon Dearest

Feb 27, 1988

Deacon Frye takes a personal interest in the divorce of a church couple, when he finds out the husband of the distraught woman is a millionaire.

S2·E18 Core

The Fantasy

Mar 5, 1988

Thelma daydreams about a honeymoon with the Reverend, but the Deacon has his own vision of being with someone special, and where having the minister as a son-in-law creates lots of

S2·E19 Core

Wedding Bell Blues

Mar 12, 1988

Rev. Gregory is upset when the first couple he ever married accuses him of malpractice and negligent counseling. He is represented at his trial by attorney Frye, with surprising r

S2·E20 Mytharc

A Slight Case of Murder (1)

Apr 30, 1988

When an attractive & glamorous woman comes to Deacon Frye for help in the murder of her husband, Deacon Frye defends her in court, and falls for charms.

S2·E21 Mytharc

A Slight Case of Murder (2)

May 7, 1988

Deacon Frye has now defended Roxanne in court and she has been found not to have murdered her husband. Now, there is nothing to stand in the way of his romantic passions for her.

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