The official trailer for Season 2 of 5 Lil’ Penguins has arrived, offering a darker, more sprawling look into the violent underworld of Birmingham, Alabama. The new teaser finds kingpin Jayvion Monroe back in the center, but this time the stakes are not just expansion of his drug empire — they’re about legacy, retribution, and the unraveling of everything he thought he controlled. Scenes flash between a city on the brink, creeping corruption in the halls of power, and a crew whose loyalty begins to fracture under the pressure of survival.
Director Devonta Ravizee remarks, “Season 2 shows how when you try to build an empire from pain, the past always finds a way in.” His words signal a shift away from the “good-day-in-the-hood” opening of the first season toward something more fractured and existential.
As the trailer teases, it only takes $100 to get young people to do your bidding. Everyone is trying to make it the easy, but violent, way, and as we’re being warned, “Trust No One.” Based on the Season 2 trailer, things have to get a lot worse before they get better.
“…drops us straight into Birmingham’s underworld—raw, tense, and unrelenting.”
In Season 1, we met Jayvion Monroe, newly released from jail and entering a violent landscape in Birmingham where loyalty became the only real currency. Childhood friends and family, drawn together by shared history, are pulled deeper into the city’s underworld — and as Jayvion expands his empire, every choice becomes a potential last one. Jayvion’s dramatic move in the first episode—grabbing a crew of three and burning down their set—set the tone for a story of pain, faith, violence, social environment, and love. Throughout the season, the city itself functions as a character, as Jayvion’s actions ripple through friends, famil,y and the neighborhoods he was once a hero in.
Devonta Ravizee approaches faith in 5 Lil’ Penguins as something lived, not preached. It’s woven into the fabric of every choice his characters make—tested in violence, affirmed in love, and questioned in silence. Faith becomes the one thing his characters can cling to when the world strips everything else away. Rather than idealizing it, Ravizee shows faith as a struggle for meaning and hope amid chaos, grounding the series in a spiritual realism that mirrors life in Birmingham’s hardest streets.
