Duck Dynasty: The Revival Season 2 · Episodes, Cast & The Phil Robertson Tribute

The Robertson family is back on TV · and somehow louder, bigger, and more populated by grandchildren than they were the first time around. Duck Dynasty: The Revival returned to A&E for its second season on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and over the course of ten new episodes, the West Monroe clan is doing what they have always done best · eating big, working harder than reality TV families usually do, and ribbing each other in a register that has not aged a day since the show first premiered in 2012.

Here's everything to know about Season 2 of Duck Dynasty: The Revival, who's back, what's new this time, and how to watch.

When does Duck Dynasty: The Revival Season 2 air?

Season 2 of Duck Dynasty: The Revival premiered on A&E on Saturday, March 7, 2026, at 10 p.m. ET/PT, and is now in the middle of its weekly run. The season is ten episodes total, airing weekly on Saturdays at the same time, with the season finale set for May 16, 2026.

Each episode runs roughly 45 minutes with commercial breaks (around 30 minutes of actual content). Episodes are available the next day on A&E's streaming app and most cable carrier on-demand portals.

Where to watch Duck Dynasty: The Revival Season 2

The show has several legal streaming and live homes:

• Live cable: A&E, Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT
• A&E streaming app and aetv.com: New episodes available the day after broadcast (free with cable login, ad-supported)
• Live TV streamers: Available live on YouTube TV, Hulu + Live TV, Sling, DirecTV Stream, Philo, and Fubo · all of which carry A&E as part of their base packages
• On-demand purchase: Individual episodes are available for purchase on Amazon Prime Video and Apple TV (around $2.99 per episode or $19.99 for the full season pass)
• Free with ads: Older episodes of the original Duck Dynasty are streaming free on Pluto TV and the A&E app, but the new Season 2 episodes require a cable login or paid streaming service

Who's in the Duck Dynasty: The Revival Season 2 cast?

The revival is built around Willie and Korie Robertson, with their expanding family of adult children and grandchildren at the center of nearly every storyline this season. The full Robertson roster in Season 2 includes:

• Willie Robertson · CEO of Duck Commander, the season's narrative anchor
• Korie Robertson · Willie's wife and the family's diplomatic operator
• John Luke Robertson · eldest son, now a father himself
• Sadie Robertson Huff · author, podcast host, and new mother of a baby girl this season
• Will Robertson · middle son, increasingly visible in the family business
• Bella Robertson · youngest daughter, now in early adulthood and getting her own storylines
• Rebecca Robertson · the family's adopted older daughter
• Rowdy Robertson · Willie and Korie's youngest, getting meaningful screen time for the first time
• Jase Robertson · Willie's brother, the show's reliable comedy engine
• Uncle Si Robertson · the unimpeachable national treasure of the franchise, still telling stories no one asked for

Plus the in-laws, grandchildren, and extended family members who have become recurring fixtures across the family's various spinoff projects.

What's different about Season 2?

If Season 1 of Duck Dynasty: The Revival was about easing the audience back into the West Monroe rhythm · establishing where the family was now, introducing the adult versions of children viewers last saw as teenagers, picking up the operational story of Duck Commander a decade on · Season 2 is much more comfortable with itself. The season is built around longer storylines, more sustained family arcs, and meaningfully more screen time for the third generation: Willie and Korie's grandchildren are no longer background presences but active participants in episode plots.

Several arcs the season is specifically built around:

• The Phil Robertson tribute in the premiere episode · a heartfelt opener honoring the late patriarch, who died in 2025. A&E has been careful in pre-season marketing not to over-promote this moment, letting it land on its own terms within the premiere.
• Sadie welcoming her newborn daughter · a thread that runs across multiple episodes, with Sadie's adjustment to motherhood and the multi-generational reaction it draws becoming one of the season's emotional throughlines.
• "Duck Court" · a recurring comedy device in which Judge Si presides over family disputes with Jase pulling Willie into the docket. It is exactly as silly as it sounds, and the early reviews have singled it out as a highlight.
• The Robertson family Western · an episode-long project in which the clan writes, costumes, and films their own original western on the family property. By every available account it is one of the most ambitious bits the show has ever attempted, and it pays off in a finale-adjacent episode.

The thematic anchor under all of this is the show's familiar interest in faith, family, and continuity · but Season 2 is also visibly aware that its core audience has aged with it. The new generation of grandchildren on screen lets the show pivot toward a long-running multi-generational format, which is the most plausible runway to a Season 3 and beyond.

The Phil Robertson tribute, briefly

Phil Robertson, the family patriarch and the original face of Duck Commander, died in 2025 at the age of 79 after a long illness. He was the founder of the company that became the foundation of the Duck Dynasty brand and a controversial public figure whose later years drew their own attention; the show, at his choice, had treated him largely as a recurring presence rather than a central cast member during the original run.

The Season 2 premiere opens with a sustained tribute to him · recorded conversations between family members, footage from the family archives, a quiet sequence in which the clan gathers at the family compound. It is one of the more emotionally restrained things Duck Dynasty has ever done, and even viewers who tapped out of the show in its later years have responded to the moment.

How is the show being received?

The Season 2 reception has been notably warmer than Season 1's. The first revival season faced the usual questions any reality reboot does · whether the family chemistry would translate after a decade off air, whether audiences would show up for a generationally older cast, whether the show's evolved political profile would limit its commercial ceiling. Season 1 answered most of those questions in the affirmative; Season 2 is building on that runway with bigger episode-level concepts and visibly more confident editing.

The ratings have been strong enough that A&E has been talking publicly about the revival as a multi-season anchor for the network, rather than as a one-off nostalgia play. If Season 2's finale numbers hold, expect a Season 3 renewal announcement in the late summer.

Do you need to have watched the original Duck Dynasty?

Not really. The revival was designed to work as a fresh-eyes entry point, and Season 2 is even more accessible than Season 1. The family dynamic does most of the lifting; the operational details of the Duck Commander business have been streamlined into the show's background rather than being central to the plot.

That said, if you ever watched even a season of the original · which ran for eleven seasons on A&E from 2012 to 2017 · there's a particular pleasure in seeing the adult versions of the kids who were on the show in middle and high school. The full original run is still available on A&E's app and on Amazon Prime Video.

Is Duck Dynasty: The Revival worth watching?

If you ever liked the original · and the original was, at its peak, the most-watched non-fiction cable series of its era · the revival is genuinely the show you remember, with the natural changes that come from a family ten years further into its life. The humor is the same. The pace is the same. The food montages are the same. The kids are taller.

If you never watched the original, the revival is a perfectly accessible Saturday-night hangout show: a generally cheerful, low-stakes hour of a large family eating, working, and ribbing each other. It's not aiming for prestige television. It's aiming for the slot in your week where you want to like the people you're watching, and it accomplishes that with very little wasted motion.

Duck Dynasty: The Revival Season 2 airs Saturdays at 10 p.m. ET/PT on A&E, with episodes streaming the next day on aetv.com and the A&E app. The season finale airs Saturday, May 16, 2026.