The Foundation literary saga had the reputation of being one of those fictional universes that was impossible to adapt. Isaac Asimov, the creator of it, had written a story about civilization, its fall and the way in which societies evolve in different models of thought and economics. David S. Goyer and Josh Friedman were not afraid to get down to work and translate the work into audiovisual with a first season released in September 2021. And, with the arrival of the second, the litmus test begins with an ellipsis of more than a century with respect to the events told so far.
In the first season, the mathematician and author of psychohistory, Hari Seldon, predicted that the Galactic Empire, which has ruled the galaxy for twelve millennia, would fall. Consequently, the scientist was sent to the other end of the galaxy to create a Foundation that would study the best way to avoid the foreseeable chaos between the fall of the Cleon dynasty and the creation of another civilization. Two key figures were in the middle of these plans: Salvor Hardin, the guardian of the inhospitable planet Terminus on which the Foundation was based, and Gaal Dornick, the disciple of Hari Seldon and the only person capable of developing psychohistory.
In the second, the Cleons fall apart and a vengeful queen plots to destroy the Empire from within. Hari, Gaal and Salvor discover a colony with psionic abilities that threaten to alter psychohistory. The Foundation, on the other hand, has already entered a religious phase: it promulgates the Church of Seldon in the Outer Circle and incites a Second Crisis, which is to trigger a war against the Empire.
Jared Harris, Lee Pace, Lou Llobell, Laura Birn and Leah Harvey will return in the lead roles in the ten episodes that are scheduled to premiere on Friday, July 14. Here the last trailer published by Apple TV.