A Disney+ series based on Rick Riordan novels — built like a modern YA road movie with mythology as the fuel, while front-loading momentum (master bolt stolen, war brewing, clock ticking) without drowning newcomers in lore dumps — is currently picking up traction on streaming after Season 2 finished airing over a month ago.
The chart movement is modest right now, but it could signal a snowball effect. In Singapore, the show re-entered Disney+’s Top 10 at #10 (March 11), held #10 on March 12, then climbed to #8 on March 13, a classic mini-spike pattern that is probably coming from late viewers catching up on Season 2, which premiered earlier this year after starting through late December 2025. Not to mention that the show also hits a sweet spot for family co-viewing: monster action for kids, character insecurity and found-family dynamics for adults, and a mythology framework that’s easy to follow even if you never read the books.
The title is Percy Jackson and the Olympians. The first installment aired back in January 2024, has 8 episodes, and a Rotten Tomatoes critics’ score of 91%. Percy Jackson and the Olympians Season 2, which is based on the book The Sea of Monsters, on the other hand, also has eight episodes, and this time, a 100% critics’ score on RT. And although the show didn’t take over streaming charts aggressively after Season 2, the bigger point still holds: It’s a tight, bingeable quest story with high production value, positive critical and fan reception, and a built-in end-of-weekend payoff.
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‘Percy Jackson and the Olympians’ TV Show Is Faithful to the Lore
Disney+’s Percy Jackson and the Olympians feels more faithful largely because the format finally matches the books. The movies had to compress a dense mythology, a road-quest structure, and multiple character arcs into a short runtime, so lore became shorthand, names, monsters, and set pieces strung together with less room for Percy’s inner logic or Camp Half-Blood’s rules to breathe.
The Disney+ series, by contrast, gets eight episodes each season to build the world for each book step by step: Quests unfold like chapters, god politics can simmer, and character relationships (Percy/Annabeth/Grover, plus the adults) can develop with consequences. Season 1 adapts Book 1, The Lightning Thief, so the eight-episode structure lets it explain not just what happens (the bolt, the quest, the gods), but why the rules and relationships matter. The same goes for Season 2.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians is available to stream on Disney+. Stay tuned to Collider for more updates.
- Release Date
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December 19, 2023
- Network
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Disney+
- Showrunner
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Jonathan E. Steinberg, Dan Shotz
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Walker Scobell
Percy Jackson
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Leah Sava Jeffries
Annabeth Chase
