Much like its vampirical antagonist, AMC’s summer horror fare, “NOS4A2” recently began its second life. The show, based on Joe Hill‘s novel of the same name — about a 1938 Rolls Royce Wraith symbiotically linked to succubus Charlie Manx (Zachary Quinto) and his battle against Vic McQueen (Ashleigh Cummings), a young woman who has superpowers of her own — had its second season premiere last week and is once again available as a full season stream to those with the AMC Premiere subscription.

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It’s a tale as old as time—you defeat an evil, supernatural serial killer only to find out that he’s really not dead and has come back eight years later to take the soul of your child and send them a place called Christmasland. We’ve all been through this before, right? Well, it seems to be something that catches the character of Vic off guard in the new season of AMC’s hit horror series, “NOS4A2.”

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As seen in the new trailer for the second season of “NOS4A2,” Charlie Manx is back and he’s after the soul of Vic McQueen’s young son, Wayne.

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With a 25-year career spanning virtually every genre, director Kari Skogland has effortlessly navigated the ever-changing feature and narrative television mediums over the course of her envious filmography. A veteran of the shifting, feature-leaning narrative landscape of prestige TV over the past two decades, she’s been nominated for an Emmy and won a BAFTA for directing episodes for “The Handmaid’s Tale,” and directed episodes of “The Americans,” “The Walking Dead,” “House of Cards,” “The Borgias,” “Boardwalk Empire,” “The Punisher,” and more.

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Studios and networks everywhere are trying to hop on the Stephen King train right now. It worked with the recent “It” adaptation, and it appears the new “Pet Sematary” is going to be a hit. Now, AMC is hoping to capture the same energy with an adaption of ‘NOS4A2.’ However, ‘NOS4A2’ isn’t a book by King. Instead, the new series is based on a story from King’s son Joe Hill, which reworked the traditional tale of the undead.

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We have apparently run out of Stephen King projects to put into development, so Hollywood has started working on his son’s books. Obviously, we’re joking, as Joe Hill, while the son of King, is a quality horror writer all on his own, with many best-sellers under his belt. And one of those novels, “NOS4A2,” is about to make its debut as a 10-episode series on AMC.

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