A new trailer spotlighting Saint Patrick is giving viewers the first full look at the second season of Martin Scorsese Presents: The Saints, the Fox Nation docudrama created by Matti Leshem and narrated by Scorsese. Released in an exclusive with The Hollywood Reporter, the preview promotes the November 16 premiere, which opens the new run with an episode devoted to Ireland’s patron saint rather than the familiar imagery of leprechauns and green beer.
The trailer leans into that reset in tone, promising a portrait grounded in history. Its title gag about including no snakes nods to legends that grew around Patrick while signaling that the series aims to foreground the documented record. A tagline urging viewers to forget what they think they know about the saint frames the episode as a corrective, aligning with the show’s broader focus on saints as complex historical figures rather than pious caricatures.
Season two opens with Patrick’s story as a teenager in Roman Britain, where Irish raiders attack his home and carry him into captivity. The episode traces his six years as an enslaved shepherd, a period the series presents as crucial to his deepening faith, before following his escape, eventual return to Ireland and mission work that led to his title as “Apostle of Ireland.” The production also gestures toward Patrick’s surviving writings, the Confessio and the Letter to Coroticus, which describe both his early life and his opposition to the mistreatment of Irish Christians.
The Saints, which premiered in 2024, combines dramatized scenes with Scorsese’s narration to explore the lives of major Christian figures. The first season focused on John the Baptist, Mary Magdalene, Sebastian, Moses the Black, Thomas Becket, Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc and Maximilian Kolbe. A second run of eight episodes was ordered for the 2025–26 television season and will profile another group that includes Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Peter, Carlo Acutis, Saint Paul, Longinus, Saint Lucia, Saint Thomas Becket and Saint Patrick.
Fox Nation has positioned the franchise around key moments in the liturgical calendar, rolling out earlier installments of The Saints during Advent and Lent and now premiering the Patrick episode in the run-up to the holiday season. The project extends Scorsese’s long engagement with religious themes, which spans earlier films and recent work such as his collaboration with Pope Francis on the documentary Aldeas – A New Story. In remarks quoted by Fox Nation, Scorsese has described telling the lives of the saints as a long-held dream, and said returning for a second season after the response to the first has been deeply satisfying.
