[Editor’s note: The following article includes spoilers for AppleTV+’s “Drops of God”]
In its first season, AppleTV+’s “Drops of God” provided a deftly acted, multilingual character study of two damaged underdogs in the wine world, half-siblings Issei Tomine and Camille Leger. In its second, which premiered Jan. 21, the series tests how much their bond can withstand by stripping away its sympathetic framework and asking viewers to keep watching even after the two protagonists become, at times, selfish, abrasive and difficult to like.
Camille (Fleur Geffrier) is introduced as the daughter of the recently deceased wine authority Alexandre Leger (Stanley Weber), while Issei (Tomohisa Yamashita) is presented as Alexandre’s protege. In his will, Alexandre pits the two against each other in a competition for his inheritance: a vast wine collection, creative control of the Leger Wine Guide and all the clout that comes with it. Camille is thrown for a loop, however, when it is revealed that Issei has just as strong a claim as she does — not only because he is equally talented, but because he is Alexandre’s illegitimate son.
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