Disney+’s 2-Season Fantasy Reboot With 95% RT Officially a Streaming Hit Ahead of New Episodes

A beloved fantasy reboot returned to Disney+’s Top 10 chart this week. Ahead of its third season, fans are revisiting Percy Jackson and the Olympians.

After appearing on the Disney+ Top TV Shows chart last month, Percy Jackson re-entered the United States chart at No. 10 on July 8. The fantasy show is in good company on the chart, appearing alongside other franchise hits like X-Men ’97 (No. 1), Zootopia+ (No. 6), and Star Wars: Maul – Shadow Lord (No. 7), per FlixPatrol.

Percy Jackson Introduced an Entire Generation to Greek Mythology

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is based on the children’s book series of the same name by Rick Riordan. The series, originally consisting of five novels, is credited with introducing an entire generation of children to Greek mythology. It follows a young demigod named Percy Jackson as he works to prevent the Titans, led by Kronos, from destroying the world.

During the height of YA fantasy adaptations in Hollywood, Percy Jackson was adapted by 20th Century Fox into two feature-length movies based on the first two novels — 2005’s The Lightning Thief and 2006’s The Sea of Monsters. Unfortunately, neither was as big a hit critically nor commercially as other YA titles like The Hunger Games and Twilight.

In 2020, following the launch of Disney+, Riordan announced that a small-screen adaptation was in the works for the streamer. It premiered in December 2023 with Walker Scobell as the titular Percy and Leah Sava Jeffries and Aryan Simhadri as his best friends, fellow demigod Annabeth Chase and satyr Grover Underwood, respectively.

The first season offered fans a more faithful adaptation of The Lightning Thief than the 2010 movie had given them. The second season, based on The Sea of Monsters, likewise follows the events of the 2006 book more closely than its 2013 film counterpart.

Percy Jackson Enters New Territory in Season 3

Disney+’s 2-Season Fantasy Reboot With 95% RT Officially a Streaming Hit Ahead of New Episodes — PERCY JACKSON AND THE OLYMPIANS, Walker Scobell, ‘We Visit the Garden Gnome Emporium’, (Season 1, ep. 103, aired Dec. 27, 2023).

The upcoming third season will now take the franchise into uncharted territory. Since 20th Century Fox scrapped its film adaptation of the third Percy Jackson novel, 2007’s The Titan’s Curse, the Disney+ show will mark the first time that the novel has been adapted for the screen.

In The Titan’s Curse, Percy Jackson embarks on a dangerous quest with his friends to rescue Annabeth and the Greek goddess Artemis, who have both been kidnapped by the army of Kronos. Dafne Keen will make her series debut in Season 3 as Artemis.

Kate McKinnon, Ming-Na Wen, Jennifer Beals, and Hubert Smielecki are also set to make their Percy Jackson debut in the upcoming season as Aphrodite, Hera, Demeter, and Apollo, respectively, all of whom are part of the Twelve Olympians.

The five actors join Jason Mantzoukas, Adam Copeland, Timothy Omundson, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Toby Stephens, Lance Reddick/Courtney B. Vance, and Andra Day, who made their respective debuts in the first two seasons of Percy Jackson as Dionysus, Ares, Hephaestus, Hermes, Poseidon, Zeus, and Athena.

The first two seasons of Percy Jackson and the Olympians are streaming on Disney+. Filming has already wrapped on the third season, which is expected to premiere in late 2026, although possibly not in December like the past two seasons to avoid airing during the same time as HBO’s Harry Potter reboot.