Scott Speedman is back, and he's talking about it. The actor sat down to break down the R.J. Decker Season 2 premiere, going through where his character is when the new season opens and what it was like getting the band back together with the cast. You can read the full breakdown over at MSN.

If you slept on Season 1, this is your nudge. Speedman's whole appeal has always been that quiet-guy intensity, the kind where he doesn't say much but you can't stop watching him anyway, and R.J. Decker gives him more room to use it than most of what he's done since Felicity and the Underworld years. The premiere picks up right in the thick of things, which is the right call. Second seasons that spend three episodes resetting the board always lose me.

The cast talk is the fun part of these breakdown pieces. Speedman gets into the dynamic with his co-stars and how the ensemble settled into something looser this time around, the way casts do once nobody's worried about whether the show is going to work anymore. That first-season tension is useful on screen but exhausting off it. Everyone I've ever heard talk about a good Season 2 says the same thing: the table reads get faster, the jokes land between takes, and somehow that shows up in the footage.

I haven't seen the premiere yet myself, it's on my list behind roughly nine other things I swore I'd watch this week, but the early word is that it comes out swinging. A premiere that trusts you to keep up is a premiere I respect. I've been burned too many times by pilots-that-are-actually-recaps to be patient about it anymore.

Speedman also touches on where the season goes from here, without spoiling anything, which is the correct amount of information for one of these interviews. Enough to make you curious, not enough to ruin the ride.

So that's your assignment. If you caught Season 1, the premiere is waiting for you. If you didn't, you've got a weekend's worth of catching up to do, and worse fates exist than a Speedman binge. I'll be checking in on this one as the season rolls out, mostly because I want to know if that loose, confident energy everybody keeps mentioning actually holds up past episode two.