Hulu has set the US premiere date for Season 2 of Dinosaur, the charming Scottish comedy-drama series whose lead character is a neurodivergent paleontologist.
I instinctively gravitate toward TV shows, films, music, anything really, from Scotland. I’m not Scottish, and I’ve only ever visited there, but I feel the warm fuzzies for the place and its people and culture.
One such piece of culture is Dinosaur. It’s a lovely series. It centers on Nina MacArthur, a thirty-something woman with autism, a job at an art gallery-museum in Glasgow, and a passion for paleontology that she turned into a profession. Ashley Storrie, who plays Nina, is herself autistic and a fine actress.
Season 2 opens eight months after we last saw Nina, when she was trying to make sure her sister Evie’s (Kat Ronney, Karen Pirie) wedding went off without a hitch while dealing with her own romantic feelings for love interest Lee (Lorn Macdonald, Bridgerton).
Instead of Glasgow, we find Nina on the Isle of Wight, knee-deep in mud on a dig site. It’s interesting what she tells herself, that she’s living her paleontology dream, when she’s actually not digging it at all. The reality is she’s shattered from exhaustion and missing Glasgow, her family, and Lee terribly. And she’s longing to get back to her creature comforts back home, like Real Housewives marathons with Evie and munching on sausage rolls.
However, when Nina finally returns to Scotland, she finds that everything has changed. Her workplace has moved, and there’s some big MacArthur family news. To top it all off, she’s thrown into an awkward feelings triangle between Lee and an unexpected new arrival.
Dinosaur: Season 2 premieres in the US on Wednesday, February 25, on Hulu.
Costars include Hyoie O’Grady (Outlander), David Carlyle (It’s a Sin), Greg Hemphill (Still Game), Sally Howitt (River City), Danny Ashok (C.B. Strike), Sabrina Sandhu (We Are Lady Parts), Ben Green (Sister Boniface Mysteries), and Jim Kitson (The Red King).
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