The First Teaser for 'Sanditon' Season 2 Recaptures the Seaside Magic

PBS Masterpiece has released the first trailer for the wildly anticipated second season of period drama Sanditon and though the clip is very brief - just 30 seconds long - it still offers us some tantalizing glimpses of many of our favorite characters, some quick looks at new faces, and much of the colorful sweetness of the eponymous Jane Austen seaside town.

Of course, there are more than a few things about the drama's second season that will look very different. As most viewers will remember, Sanditon Season 1 ended on a dramatic cliffhanger, after which the series was summarily canceled, leaving us all to wonder what might happen to kind-hearted heroine Charlotte Heywood (Rose Williams) after she had her heart shattered in front of us. But after a massive outcry from Austen and period drama fans, the show found a second life, suddenly renewed for not one, but two new seasons. Just...without its two primary leading men.

In the interim between Sanditon's cancellation and its miraculous renewal, both Theo James and Leo Suter, who played Charlotte's love interests Sidney Parker and Young (James) Stringer, respectively, had gotten other jobs (on HBO drama The Time Traveller's Wife and Netflix adventure series Vikings: Valhalla). Therefore much of Season 2 will naturally be devoted to watching our heroine pick up the pieces and find a way to emotionally heal in the wake of Sidney's decision to marry someone else. (And James' apparently very definitive choice not to return.)

But, she won't be doing it alone. Season 2 will not only see Charlotte's return to the famous seaside resort town and her reunion with her BFF Georgiana Lambe (Crystal Clarke), but the arrival of her starry-eyed younger sister, Alison (Outlander's Rosie Graham), a hopeless romantic on the hunt for a love of her own. And, this being an Austen tale, she's going to have plenty of eligible bachelors to choose from.

Watch the first teaser for yourselves below.