Warning: This story contains major spoilers for the ending of “Maxton Hall” season 2.
“Maxton Hall” finished its season on a major cliffhanger – but this time it’s Ruby who’s left in a heartbreaking lurch.
The Prime Video German teen drama is beloved for its soapy plots, angsty relationship dynamics and powerful chemistry between leads James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) and Ruby Bell (Harriet herbig-Matten).
But their enemies-to-lovers romance has brought plenty of strife to their lives due to the class difference between them (hence the subtitle, “The World Between Us.”)
If it wasn’t clear from Season 1, Season 2 has firmly established that James’ father, Mortimer (Fedja van Huêt), is the show’s big bad. In the wake of the death of his wife – which was revealed in the last minutes of the Season 1 finale – his efforts to control his children, James and Lydia (Sonja Weißer), only intensified.
He circumvents their efforts to modernize the family’s company, seemingly removes them from their mother’s will and, of course, tries to force James and Ruby apart. First, by getting Ruby’s scholarship rescinded, and then, by forcibly taking over the bell family’s bakery.
But it’s his final manipulation that makes up Season 2’s shocking final moments.
What Happens at the end of ‘Maxton Hall’ Season 2?
The final few moments of “Maxton Hall” upend all of Ruby’s efforts to secure her future as a student at Oxford.
In Episode 6, which dropped Nov. 28 on Prime Video, it’s revealed that professor Graham Sutton (Eidin Jalali) has been having an affair with a student. Since season 1, he’s had on-again, off-again trysts with Lydia Beaufort, who’s now pregnant with twins. He’s summoned before school leaders,including Mortimer,to explain what happened.
during that meeting,it’s revealed the affair was discovered via a photo. (remember: In Episode 5, elaine (Eli Riccardi), who’s in love with James, and Cyril (Ben Felipe), who’s long pined for Lydia, discovered Lydia and Graham embracing in the woods during a school function and took a photo as evidence.)
But when Graham sees the photo that started the inquest, it turns out to be a picture not of him and Lydia, but of him and Ruby from a school gala in Season 1.
The scene then cuts to a meeting with Ruby, her mother and the headmaster.He tells her she’s been expelled from Maxton Hall and will never attend Oxford.
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