To help you weather the wait, here’s everything we know so far about Raising Dion Season 3, including when a renewal notice may come, who might return in the cast, how long we might have to wait for new episodes and more.
Has Raising Dion been renewed for Season 3?
As of Raising Dion’s Season 2 premiere date, Netflix hasn’t commented yet on whether the series will be back for a third season, although the story certainly leaves room for one. The first season premiered in October 2019, with the Season 2 renewal announced three months later in January 2020—so if Netflix follows the same pattern, it could be a few months before we hear about Season 3’s status. That said, the streamer has also been known to quickly renew shows that do well enough, so if enough people watch Raising Dion Season 2, we could get word about a third season much earlier.
When will Raising Dion Season 3 premiere?
Although the second season of Raising Dion was announced in January 2020, it didn’t premiere on Netflix until February 2022, more than two years later. While a big reason for the long wait between seasons was undoubtedly the COVID-19 pandemic, the two-and-a-half year span also meant the series’ child actors grew up a little more, allowing them to handle even more intense roles for Season 2. Plus, advancing the story a couple years also helped with world-building, enabling BIONA to return as an established training facility for superpowered youth. Raising Dion hasn’t yet been renewed for a third season, but if and when it is, there’s probably no need to rush into production, since the first two seasons set the precedent for a long wait. And while we don’t necessarily want to have to wait years for Season 3, we have to admit that Raising Dion is the sort of show that can pull it off.
Who will be in the Raising Dion Season 3 cast?
Since Raising Dion hasn’t been officially renewed for Season 3, none of the members of the cast have been officially confirmed to be returning yet. That said, we can’t imagine the show without Dion, Nicole, or newly minted supervillain Pat (JasonRitter), so it seems safe to assume cast members Young, Wainwright, and Ritter would all be back. Also safe bets? The other two members of the Triangle of Justice, Dion’s school friends Esperanza (Sammi Haney) and Jonathan (Gavin Munn). Less clear is whether Griffin Robert Faulkner will return as the telepathic Brayden—will the Triangle become a Square?—since he was left without a legal guardian as of the end of the first season. We would also expect to see Ali Ahn to return as Suzanne Wu, the head of BIONA, and Josh Ventura as David Marsh, since we last saw him volunteering to be Pat’s right-hand man, and Pat is going to need someone to help him create his army. We also likely haven’t seen the last of Dion’s new trainer (and Nicole’s new love interest) Tevin, or Dion’s fellow BIONA trainee Janelle, meaning Rome Flynn and Aubriana Davis should be back as well. And while he didn’t make an appearance in Season 2, we can’t help but hope that executive producer Michael B. Jordan, who played Dion’s deceased father Mark in Season 1, will at least grace us with a cameo in Season 3.
What will Season 3 of Raising Dion be about?
There are plenty of story avenues left to explore after Season 2 of Raising Dion. Now that Dion, Tevin, and Janelle teamed up for one battle, we’re anxious to see them all in action again, possibly as BIONA’s own in-house superhero squad. Maybe we’ll get to see them actually training together, and taking on bad guys as a team. And of course, there’s the question of how the non-powered folks, such as Nicole and the Triangle of Justice, fit into this new dynamic. Nicole’s first priority, as always, will likely be to keep Dion safe, but we doubt even Dion’s own mother can deny that he’s destined for some pretty incredible things. Then there’s Pat, David, and the army they’re talking about building. Plus, Pat is now brimming with new superpowers that he’ll undoubtedly want to take for a test drive, likely leaving a trail of destruction in his wake that BIONA will have to clean up. If we had to guess, we’d place our bets on a third season of Raising Dion following the parallel journeys of Pat and Dion as they each work to understand, control, and maximize their powers, likely culminating in the first battle between Pat’s army and Dion’s noble band of allies. But we can’t rule out other superpowered bad guys emerging from the darkness to challenge Dion, either.
What happened at the end of Season 2 of Raising Dion?
Season 2 of Raising Dion saw Dion facing off against the Crooked Man yet again, this time in the form of Dion’s elementary school friend, Brayden Mills (Faulkner). Meanwhile, former Crooked Man, Pat Rollins (Ritter), returned to BIONA seemingly powerless and eager to help Suzanne Wu (Ahn) and the scientists at BIONA better understand the Crooked energy. In the hands of Brayden, the Crooked Man created flowers at the sinkhole at the high school which released spores that turned whoever they infected into mindless monsters controlled by the Crooked Man. Some of these spores wound up infecting Nicole, and Suzanne, Pat, and the other BIONA scientists spent the season searching frantically for a cure, only to fall short. Ultimately, after a showdown between Brayden and the Crooked Man’s minions against Dion and his allies—including new superpowered friends Tevin (Flynn) and Janelle (Davis)—Nicole was able to help Brayden break free of the Crooked energy, and Dion was able to neutralize the spoors using a serum developed by BIONA. Meanwhile, at the end of the season, frustrated at being taken off the project and—in his mind—underappreciated, Pat stole the experimental superpowered DNA-infused serum he had developed for Nicole and injected it into himself instead. After briefly seeming to die, Pat revived, now in possession of every superpower in BIONA’s lab. Together with disgraced BIONA executive David Marsh (Ventura), Pat left the facility intending to create an army. In a post-credits scene set far in the future, we saw Pat leading a masked army through the smoldering streets outside Atlanta, intending to destroy the entire city. But he’s stopped by a masked adult superhero that identifies himself only as the Mind Mover, which is the name Dion chose for himself.
How to watch Raising Dion
All episodes of the first two seasons of Raising Dion are available to stream on Netflix. Here’s everything else coming to Netflix along with Raising Dion Season 2 in February 2022.
