American Vandal recruits a couple of fresh-faced young dicks for season 2

Now, Deadline reports that the series has found its leads for season two: Travis Tope, newly freed from his role as Tim Allen’s daughter’s boyfriend on Last Man Standing, will play Ethan, a “fedora-wearing, pocket-watch carrying” high school junior. Melvin Gregg, a former Vine star currently playing a “charming social-media influencer” on Lifetime’s UnREAL, will take on the role of DeMarcus, a basketball star at their exclusive private school.

Notably, neither the characters of DeMarcus nor Ethan appear in the teaser for season two Netflix posted at the end of October. But it did feature the voice of Peter Maldonado (Tyler Alvarez), the teenage documentarian whose obsessive investigation nearly got him kicked out of school in American Vandal season one. Did he finally go to far in the interim, forcing him to transfer to an exclusive private school with a whole new cast of characters/suspects? Or is Peter’s voiceover a red herring, meant to deflect attention away from Ethan while he films his documentary? Ethan does carry a pocket watch, which is just the kind of thing a fucking A/V nerd would do. To Reddit!