Owen Wilson Tees Up a Comeback in Stick Season Two
The golf comedy returns to Apple TV on November 4 with Rhea Seehorn on the bag, a 40-something swing coach's dream and a hero who finally bets on himself.
Owen Wilson’s golf comedy has a simple pitch for its second round: the man who spent a whole first season betting on someone else is now putting his money on himself. Stick season two arrives on Apple TV on Wednesday, November 4, 2026, and it may be the most pleasant appointment television of the autumn.
The rollout is easy to remember. Two episodes land on premiere night, then one a week until December 30. That’s a slow, civilised run that takes you straight through the darkest stretch of the year, which is exactly when a show this warm earns its keep.
A comeback with a ceiling attached
Quick refresher for anyone who skipped season one. Wilson plays Pryce Cahill, an ex-pro golfer whose career was derailed 20 years ago. His marriage collapsed, he lost his job at an Indiana sporting goods store, and he threw his future behind Santi (Peter Dager), a troubled 17-year-old phenom. Apple describes the result as a heartfelt, feel-good comedy about a found family.
Season two splits the spotlight in a smart way. Santi steps up in his own pursuit of professional golf and learns how fast the game shifts once talent turns into expectation. Pryce, watching from the edge of that rise, starts to wonder what might still be possible for him.
Cue Clark Ross (Timothy Olyphant), his former rival, who urges him on. Pryce does something nobody expects and launches an improbable comeback, aiming to become the oldest golfer ever to win a major. The road back is far harder than he imagined. The nearer he gets to the player he used to be, the more he has to face why he never delivered on the promise everyone saw in him.
That is a sturdier engine than the usual sports-comedy redemption arc. The question isn’t only whether he can win. It’s whether he ever believed the hype, which is a more grown-up thing to ask of a man in a visor.
The new name on the bag
The headline addition is Rhea Seehorn, an Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner fresh from Pluribus, who plays Amanda, Pryce’s new coach. Apple calls her brilliant, and casting is doing the talking here: an actor known for precision, put opposite one known for drift. Marc Maron stays in his corner as trusted caddie Mitts, so the found family keeps its sardonic heart.
Mariana Treviño, Lilli Kay and Judy Greer return, and the roster of newcomers is a fun one: John Higgins, Billy Zane, Rex Linn, Sasha Alexander and Missi Pyle. Broadcasters Jim Nantz and Trevor Immelman make return guest appearances, as do golf enthusiasts Matt Scharff and Dan Rapaport. Having the voices of real-life golf coverage drift through a fictional tour is a nice touch of texture.
Why Wilson works as a comfort object
Wilson has never played a man who pushes. His whole screen persona is a kind of gentle lean: the unhurried drawl, the half-smile, the sense that he’d rather you were having a good time. In a lot of hands that would drift into lazy. Here it is the point. Pryce is a guy who coasted on talent, then on regret, and the comedy comes from watching that easy manner meet something that finally demands effort.
That’s also why the show lands as a prestige comfort-watch rather than a mere cozy one. The stakes are emotional, not cinematic. Nobody is saving the world. A middle-aged man is trying to find out whether the version of himself that everyone praised was real, and he’s doing it with a caddie who has opinions. You can put it on after a long day and still feel you watched something with a pulse.
Wilson is also an executive producer, so the tone owes something to him as well as to creator and showrunner Jason Keller. The executive producer list is long: Ben Silverman for Propagate Content, Entertainment 360’s Guymon Casady, plus Christopher Moynihan, Rodney Ferrell, Howard T. Owens, Drew Buckley, Lee Eisenberg and Bill Callahan. Stick comes from Apple Studios.
How to watch
The series streams on Apple TV, which costs $14.99 a month and offers a seven-day free trial for new subscribers. For a limited time, anyone who buys and activates a new iPhone, iPad, Apple TV 4K or Mac gets three months free. Apple has been keen to point out the company it keeps, from Ted Lasso and The Studio to Severance, CODA and F1, the highest-grossing sports feature of all time. Stick is a quieter proposition than any of those, and that’s rather the appeal.
Mark Wednesday, November 4. Clear the sofa, pour something decent, and let a 40-something-ish underdog try on greatness one more time. You can find the full announcement from Apple TV here.
Via Apple TV Press