Sizzlin' Summer Streaming 23' - Halo - Season One

Halo streams on Paramount+, which is based on the video game franchise of the same name. So it been a hot minute since it started streaming late March 2022.

The show concluded its first season back in late May 2022. So I am a little behind, that said season two has not yet released a trailer or a release date. So I am so ready for the second season.

Pablo Schreiber & Jen Taylor star as Master Chief Petty Officer John-117 and Cortana.

While Shabana Azmi, Natasha Culzac, Olive Gray, Yerin Ha, Bentley Kalu, Kate Kennedy, Charlie Murphy, Danny Sapani, Bokeem Woodbine, and Natascha McElhone make up the cast.

The nine-episode first run was an easy watch. The action scenes and visual effects were outstanding.

For non-gamers (like me) Halo follows an epic 26th-century conflict between humanity and an alien threat known as the Covenant. Halo will weave deeply drawn personal stories with action, adventure and a richly imagined vision of the future.

So the show has been done for a while, but I will give the red SPOILERS below warning, NOW! Read on at your own risk.

In the season one finale, Transcendence Makee escapes Reach, Silver Team enters into a standoff that is only defused when Captain Keyes arrives and reveals to Vannak and Riz the truth about the Spartan program. 

Kai helps to apprehend Halsey, but Miranda realizes that the "Halsey" that was captured was actually a flash clone of the real Halsey, who secretly escapes from Reach. 

With Cortana's help, John deduces the location of the Covenant planet, Raas Kkhotskha, and leads Silver Team on a mission to recover the Forerunner keystones. 

On Raas Kkhotskha, Silver Team engages Covenant forces. When John is overwhelmed, Makee activates the combined keystones in order to generate a blast to save John, generating a star map leading to Halo, and inadvertently locking John into stasis. 

When John tries and fails to talk Makee down using another shared vision, Kai frees John from his trance by shooting Makee, shutting down the keystone before it can show Halo's location. 

After John takes a fatal hit, Cortana assumes control of John, rescues Silver Team, and escapes with them and both of the keystones. As they depart, Kai asks John if it is really him behind the helmet, but he only glances at her, wordlessly.

Bring on season two!

Reservation Dogs finale incoming. Next week it's a big week of finales, RFDS, Ahsoka, The Continental and Only Murders in the Building.