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Two years after its premiere, “Percy Jackson and the Olympians” returns with a powerful second season, as outstanding as the first. The first season followed the sarcastic and precocious demigod Percy Jackson (Walker Scobell), who discovers his lineage as the son of Poseidon (Toby Stephens) and embarks on a quest with his best friends, Annabeth (Leah Sava Jeffries) and Grover (Aryan Simhadri), to restore Zeus’s stolen lightning bolt (Courtney B. Vance replaces the late Lance Riddick in the second season). In a darker second season, with much more at stake for the trio, Rick Riordan’s vast world becomes ever more rich and complex. The eight-episode season (four of which have been reviewed by critics) begins a year after the events of the first season finale. It’s the last day of school, and Percy is eager to return to Camp Half-Blood, but this time things are a little more complicated. His mother, Sally (Virginia Kull), has started fostering a cyclops named Tyson (Daniel Diemer), and he...