Waiting for God: Season 2
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 Waiting for God 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.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
Counselling for the Dying
Sep 5, 1991
Following the death of a resident all alone, Tom puts himself forward as a counsellor to aid and comfort the terminally ill. A new female resident arrives and has afternoon deligh
The Partition
Sep 12, 1991
Tom is depressed because he is missing his late wife but Marion and Geoffrey are not keen to have him home on respite. He turns his attentions to Diana and suggests that they shack
Daisy Takes Charge
Sep 19, 1991
Baines threatens Diana with expulsion unless she removes the partition but they both have more pressing matters to consider as Daisy becomes completely domineering, taking over the
The Thief
Sep 26, 1991
Resident Betty claims that her sewing basket has gone missing and Tom and Diana decide to investigate. Not fully believing Betty's story they follow her and Tom intervenes when the
Tell the Truth
Oct 3, 1991
Tom's belief that one should always tell the truth offends Jane, who's attempted to look glamorous to appeal to Baines and Tom says she looks hideous. He also upsets Marion by tell
The Hip Operation
Oct 10, 1991
Diana falls and breaks her hip whilst throwing a brick at the home's incompetent South American gardener. She is taken to hospital where she rows with the Welsh doctor over a hip r
Glamorous Grannies
Oct 17, 1991
Tom has a bet with Diana that she can't be nice to people for a week. Such untypical actions only lead to confusion. Baines wants to organise a glamorous grandmother contest for t
Foreign Workers
Oct 24, 1991
In order to cut costs Baines decides to employ illegal immigrant workers at Bayview. To Diana one incompetent foreigner, the gardener, is enough and, after the residents have stag
Young People
Oct 31, 1991
A group of students comes to Bayview and Baines bribes one of them, Bob, into being seen in a compromising situation with Diana. This will enable him, under an old church covenant
The Boring Son
Nov 7, 1991
In addition to her alcoholism, Marion's fling with Bob becomes the last straw for Geoffrey, who finally decides to leave her. But where can he go? Answer: move in with his father