The Season drops on Hulu with a Hong Kong sailing-set drama
Variety reports Hulu is streaming all six episodes of The Season starting June 17, a Hong Kong-set drama about elite sailing friends whose summer trip turns into betrayal, produced by SK Global and shot largely on location.
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Hulu is going full drop mode on The Season, a six-episode drama set in Hong Kong's elite sailing world that lands June 17 with every episode available at once. Variety's cast interviews frame it as less glossy yacht porn and more a pressure cooker: rich friends, real locations, and nowhere to hide once the summer trip curdles.
The series follows a tight group in Hong Kong's boating scene whose getaway slides into betrayal and power plays as hidden agendas surface. Variety notes the show was shot almost entirely on real Hong Kong locations, with much of the cast spending long stretches at sea during production.
Who is in it
The ensemble includes Jessie Mei Li (Shadow and Bone), Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians), Toby Stephens, Karena Lam, Justin Chien (The Brothers Sun), and Hong Kong pop stars Anson Lo and Marf Yau, among others.
Variety's cast conversations highlight the physical reality of the shoot: no trailers on the boat, long days on the water, and performances that had to hold in open air rather than on a soundstage.
Who made it
The Season is created and showrun by Yalun Tu, with Marialy Rivas as lead director and executive producer. PCCW Media produced in partnership with SK Global, the company behind Crazy Rich Asians, Thai Cave Rescue, and Delhi Crime.
In the U.S., the series streams on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+. Variety reports it will also run on Viu across Asia, the Middle East, and South Africa, and on Now TV in Hong Kong.
Why it matters now
For North American viewers tracking Asian-led streaming, The Season is a useful counterpoint to the usual Los Angeles or Seoul default. It is Hong Kong-specific, ensemble-driven, and built for a single-weekend binge rather than eight weeks of appointment viewing.
Variety's piece is cast-forward rather than spoiler-heavy, which makes it a good pre-watch read if you want tone before you commit. The selling point is atmosphere: sailing culture as social hierarchy, with a SK Global pedigree that signals production scale even if the story stays intimate.
If you are building a June watch stack around Beef's Korean culture conversation or Hulu's broader AAPI slate, The Season is the new entry worth slotting in first.
