The Ex Wife season 2 has landed on Channel 5, bringing Jack, Tasha and a surviving Emily back into view three years after the first series left their lives in pieces. This time the story opens in Cyprus, where Tasha and Emily are hiding out and struggling to make ends meet while Jack is back on the outside after an early release from prison.
The new run puts a tighter squeeze on everyone’s choices. Jack, played by Tom Mison, is out after serving time for causing a death by dangerous driving, and he sets out to reclaim the wife and daughter he lost. At the other end of the chain, Jen is trying to move on with her life and is about to get remarried, now played by Katie McGrath after Janet Montgomery left the role at the end of season 1 because of a scheduling conflict. The shift matters because Jen was the one who entered what looked like a stable family life in the first series and helped turn it upside down.
Season 1 followed Jack, Tasha and Emily before Jen appeared and Jack and his daughter went missing, setting off the disappearance that drove the drama. Season 2 picks up the aftermath of that break and keeps it moving forward rather than pausing to reset it, which is why the Cyprus setting is more than a backdrop: it is a place to hide, to run out of money and, eventually, to be found. Liberty Miller returns as Emily, Céline plays Tasha, Jordan Stephens plays Sam, Tasha’s ex-boyfriend and still-close friend, and Clare Foster plays Hayley, Jack’s sister.
The tension this season is built into the same question from two directions. Jack wants his family back after prison. Jen is preparing to remarry. Tasha and Emily are trying to survive far from home. Those threads do not just overlap; they collide, and the series makes clear that the old damage was never left behind, only delayed by three years and a different place to hide.
What gives the new season its edge is that the story is not pretending the past was tidied up between installments. The recasting of Jen was a production change, not a rewrite of the character’s fate, and the drama continues the consequences of Jack’s imprisonment rather than inventing a new conflict. By the time the season lands on screen, the central struggle is already set: Jack is free, but freedom only gives him another chance to chase what he has lost.
