Glen Powell says he is already thinking about Chad Powers Season 3, even as Hulu’s second season is streaming now. The actor, who plays both Russ Holliday and Chad Powers, said the show’s latest run had to make room for a house-party scene that Season 1 would never have allowed.
That is a shift for a comedy built around a premise so unlikely that Powell and Michael Waldron once treated socializing as off limits for Chad. In Season 1, Powell said the answer to any party invitation was simple: no. The joke, he said, was that everything had to stay locked to wins, losses and football, not the kind of scene where Chad might end up under a mirror ball.
Season 2 changed the math. Powell said the stakes were higher if Chad skipped the party, which meant the show had to justify the detour story-wise. In the scene, Tricia Yeager and Danny Cruz are already in the mix when Chad hits the line-dancing floor, bumping and grinding as the camera catches him in full prosthetic disguise. Powell said the moment was worked out by asking a basic question: how would Chad Powers dance? Then they went for it.
The timing of the scene was absurdly practical. The party started at 9 a.m. on the Atlanta set, and Powell said no dance training was required. He also said he spends at least an hour in the makeup chair before each shooting day to become Powers, a routine that turns the role into a daily test of patience before the cameras even roll.
Chad Powers itself still rests on a joke that has outlived the one-off skit that inspired it. The series began with Eli Manning’s 2022 Eli’s Places bit, in which he wore prosthetics and crashed Penn State football tryouts as a would-be walk-on quarterback. Manning is now an executive producer, and Powell has described the series as a personal challenge to prove that he and Waldron could make the premise work.
That is why Powell’s talk of Season 3 matters now. He is not just defending a Season 2 detour or talking up the six episodes streaming on Hulu. He is signaling that the show’s world is still expanding, even if he has not laid out what comes next. For a comedy that once seemed built for a single gag, the real surprise is no longer whether Chad can survive a party. It is that Powell is already planning the next move.
