A Real Bug’s Life is the kind of series that’s only possible because Disney owns National Geographic. As you can guess by the title, the entire series uses the 1998 Pixar animated film A Bug’s Life as its inspiration. Sure, we don’t get talking animated bugs going on an adventure together. But, at least we appear to be getting the next best thing. All narrated by none other than Awkwafina (Crazy Rich Asians, Raya and the Last Dragon, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings), no less. Don’t believe me? Then why not check out the official trailer for this Disney+ series below, and see for yourself why it’s getting a season 2?
A Real Bug’s Life Season 2: Details
National Geographic is proud to announce that they have renewed A Real Bug’s Life for a second season. To hype up this upcoming new season, they are announcing that the four episodes will be accompanied by “THE MAKING OF… A FLY ON THE WALL“. It’s basically a behind the scenes fifth episode showing how the filmmakers captured the insect action on film. Likely a great watch for fans of those old Eyewitness episodes and the making of featurettes at the end of them.
A Real Bug’s Life season 2 will make its streaming debut sometime in Fall 2024. You can watch it and the previous first season only on Disney+.
Bonus: Episode List
That’s not all, folks! National Geographic even has the full episode list for A Real Bug’s Life season 2 to further amp up the hype. You can check them out below:
- LOVE IN THE FOREST (Smoky Mountains, Tennessee) – It’s the end of the longest day of summer. A young fawn frolics to exhaustion. While it falls asleep, the forest comes to life – and tonight, love is in the air. At the forest edge, a lonely female firefly is looking for a male, but the Big Dipper fireflies nearby are dancing to a different tune.
- LIFE’S A BEACH (Borneo, Malaysia) – The beach may look paradise to us … but it’s a brutal place for bugs to make a home. From the sand all the way out to the reef, the waves and the tides hammer their home 24/7. Time and tide wait for no bug.
- TINY HEROES DOWN UNDER (Australia) – Down Under – a land filled with familiar fluffy faces like kangaroos and koalas, but the bugs here are a lot of people’s worst nightmares. A eucalyptus forest in eastern Australia is full of ’em: funnel web fangs, ant stings … even exploding bombardier beetles! But there’s much more to Australian bugs than horror stories. Some are actually really cute as it goes.
- ONCE A POND A TIME (England) – Water is a cradle of life for all sorts of amazing tiny creatures, but when one is “bug-sized,” its strange shape-shifting properties can have huge consequences. Through the year, the pond undergoes a series of near-magical transformations from ice crystal to water vapor. The tiny creatures that make their home here have found amazing ways to cope with life in this turbulent world.
- THE MAKING OF … A FLY ON THE WALL – Surrounded by hordes of army ants, chasing the fastest-running insect on Earth, crawling through muddy mangroves … this was everyday life for the team of world-renowned scientists, experts and filmmakers who created A REAL BUG’S LIFE. Armed with innovative filming equipment, they stopped at nothing to reveal the untold stories of the planet’s most underappreciated animals – bugs!
Tune back in to THS later to find out more about A Real Bug’s Life when we hear about it. As well as other Disney+ series, of course.
