NEED TO KNOW
- Maxton Hall: The World Between Us is currently streaming on Prime Video
- The hit German show is the most watched international Original series of all time.
- Season two debuted on November 7 2025, with episodes dropping weekly until November 28.
- Maxton Hall was filmed across the UK and Germany.
- The show is based on the Save Us trilogy by Mona Kasten.
If your FYP looks anything like ours (read: mine), then it’s full of Maxton Hall edits, theories and slow pan shots of the bucolic landscapes and sprawling country estates that play host to show’s hit new season, titled The World Between Us.
And while, granted, I’m yet to meet an enemies-to-lovers trope I haven’t taken to, I’m certainly not a cultural outlier for falling into this current obsession. In fact, the German-language show has become so popular, that it now claims the title of most-watched International Original Prime Video series, topping the charts in over 120 countries including the US, UK and Australia. Which is no mean feat given its stratospheric rise comes mere months after the zeitgeist-dominating finale of The Summer I Turned Pretty (with its equally as idyllic sets).
When do new episodes of Maxton Hall come out?
The show’s first season was gifted to us in one bingeable batch, but we’re not so lucky when it comes to Maxton Hall: The World Between Us – which follows a staggered release schedule.
The first three episodes (of the six planned) premiered in Australia on Friday November 7, 2025, with the additional episodes dropping weekly every Friday at 5pm AEDT. Of course, you can catch up on all six episodes of Maxton Hall season 1 on Prime Video in the meantime.
- Episode 1, ‘Devastated‘: Aired November 7, 5pm AEDT
- Episode 2, ‘Wish to the Universe‘: Aired November 7, 5pm AEDT
- Episode 3, ‘Emotional Rollercoaster‘: Aired November 7, 5pm AEDT
- Episode 4 ‘Secrets‘: Aired November 14, 5pm AEDT
- Episode 5 ‘Deceptive Lightness‘: Aired November 21, 5pm AEDT
- Episode 6 ‘TBA’: November 28, 5pm AEDT
What happens in Maxton Hall Season 2?
Based on a trilogy of novels by German author, Mona Kasten, the series charts the enthralling love story of scholarship student Ruby Bell and heir to the Beaufort fashion dynasty, James Beaufort as their opposite worlds collide at the elite private school. Forced to tolerate each other’s existence, the unlikely pair strike up a working relationship that soon turns to something more, when James and Ruby are forced to reckon with the realities of their wildly divergent life paths that have somehow become intertwined.
The official synopsis for the sophomore season of show reads: “Those who fly high can also fall low…After their passionate night together in Oxford and her greatest life goal within reach, everything seems to be going perfectly for Ruby. But a stroke of fate in James’ family changes everything and James himself, of all people, brings her back from cloud nine to a harsh reality.”
Where was Maxton Hall filmed?
Naturally, the appetite for detail around Maxton Hall and its beloved cast members, including protagonists James Beaufort (Damian Hardung) and Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten), has reached an all-time high. And for the like minded among us who might also find themselves hooked on the latest addition to our must-watch shows for interior design lovers, the biggest question remains: where, exactly, is Maxton Hall located in real life?
As with other fan-favourite series that lean heavily on iconic filming locations – think the sun-drenched shores of The White Lotus, the grand estates of The House of Guinness, or the Gothic landscapes set to bring Emerald Fennell’s upcoming Wuthering Heights to life – the world of Maxton Hall is stitched together from real sites across Germany and the UK.
Filming took place mainly across Celle, Hanover, Hamburg and Oxford, mixing Gothic courthouse exteriors with university corridors, elite schools and aristocratic estates. According to Prime Video, Season 2 – based on Mona Kasten’s bestselling sequel Save You – returns to many of the original locations and travels to new areas of Hanover and Hamburg as the world around Ruby and James expands.
Below, we map out every major filming location across Season 1 and Season 2 – including what’s real, what’s fictional and which spots you can actually visit.
Is Maxton Hall a real school?
Maxton Hall may not be taking enrollments anytime soon, but its scene-stealing setting is anything but fictional. The UK-based college that we’re introduced to in the novels finds its real-life counterpart in Marienburg Castle, which has surged in popularity since the show began.
Located in Pattensen in the German region of Hanover, the historic estate was built between 1858 and 1867 by King George V as a birthday present for his wife, Queen Marie of Hanover. Today, it forms the backdrop to most of the exterior scenes shown throughout Maxton Hall, but is currently closed to the public until 2030.
“It was really challenging to shoot season 2 because so many fans were there every day trying to take photographs, but the plot was top secret, so it was really a challenge for the team.” Country Director at Prime Video Germany and Austria, Christoph Schneider, told Deadline after filming wrapped.
Where Maxton Hall is filmed in Oxford, England
With a plot that’s centred around Ruby’s dream tertiary education destination – Oxford University – the storied college town features quite heavily throughout both seasons.
From St Hilda’s College in Cowley Place – where Ruby and James stay during their admission interviews – to Turf Tavern and Central Oxford’s High Street and Magdalen Bridge, the medieval alleyways and historic buildings of Oxford are a constant presence. Especially when you get to episode 2, 4 and 6 of season one.
Keen to make the Maxton Hall pilgrimage? You can check out any of the Oxford-based filming locations below:
- Manos Cafe & Deli: 105 Walton Street, Jericho, Oxford – Ruby’s place of work.
- Turf Tavern: 4 Bath Place, Oxford – where Ruby’s friends meet on their first trip to Oxford in Season 1 Episode 4.
- St Hilda’s College: Cowley Place, Oxford
- High Street & Magdalen Bridge: Central Oxford
- Oxford University:Wellington Square, Oxford
Where is the Beaufort Villa in Maxton Hall season 2?
Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany, serves as the London HQ of the Beaufort family’s influential fashion empire in the show, but viewers could be forgiven for thinking the neoclassical facade was straight out of a Mayfair main road. Subsequent scenes are filmed in Potsdam City Palace
Where Potsdam becomes London on screen, so too is our sense of place altered when we step into the privileged halls of the Beaufort Villa that houses James, his twin sister Lydia and their parents. It’s within these scenes that fans are taken through some of the most memorable (and emotional) moments of series two. Don’t worry – we won’t spoil anything here!
Again, playing the role of an English country estate, the impressive home’s exterior is slightly further afield. In fact, a lot of family scenes are filmed outside and around Kyritz Ganz Castle in Brandenburg, Germany. The heritage building is located in the Prignitz district on a tiny island that’s completely surrounded by water and only accessible by boat.
Ruby Bell’s family home in Maxton Hall
In stark contrast to the Beaufort Villa, Ruby Bell’s family home is a welcome relief from the elitist world she occupies.
Located in Potsdam’s Neuer Garten (or New Garden) in Germany, the picturesque abode is situated southwest of Berlin between the Holy Lake (Heiliger See) and Jungfernsee. The area, commissioned in 1787 by Frederick William II and designed by gardener Johann August Eyserbeck, serves as a visual reminder of just how different the two protagonists really are – in the best ways.
Fans can visit Ruby’s home, and other familiar locations in Potsdam Germany at the addresses below:
- Museum Barberini: Alter Markt, Humboldtstraße, Potsdam – Beaufort HQ
- Ruby Bell’s house: Im Neuen Garten 3, 14469 Potsdam
Will there be a season 3 of Maxton Hall?
Fans of the breakthrough series (and literary trilogy), Maxton Hall, will be thrilled to know that, not only are we getting a season 3, but production is already underway.
Sharing the exciting news in a video posted back in June 9, stars Harriet and Damian confirmed that they were heading back to school – scripts in hand.
While we wait for season 2 to wrap, we can only speculate as to what the future holds for our favourite enemies-to-lovers. However, as with the previous two seasons, the final chapter will be based off Kasten’s final novel, Save Us, and as the synopsis reveals, we have a lot to look forward to.
“Ruby is in shock: Her worst nightmare has come true, and now Oxford and all her dreams that finally seemed within reach are at risk. Worst of all, everything points to James as the one responsible, even after everything they’ve been through together. Ruby thought that she had met the real James—the one who has his own dreams, the one who makes her laugh and makes her heart beat faster with a single glance.
“However, after an explosive fight between the two, they discover a terrible truth. Together, Ruby fights to graduate, as James tries to clear her name at school. But that means once again James must challenge his father and his expectations for him. And despite everything, James still threatens to break under the obligations to his family. Ruby and James must ask themselves if the worlds they live in are perhaps too different after all, or if they can finally find a way back to each other.”
