Prime Video detonated the first full trailer for Maxton Hall Season 3, and the internet is currently a war zone of screaming teens, sobbing 30-somethings, and one very confused group chat that hasn’t slept since. The two-minute-fifteen-second rollercoaster opens with Ruby Bell (Harriet Herbig-Matten) dragging a single battered suitcase across an empty Oxford courtyard at dawn while James Beaufort (Damian Hardung), looking like he hasn’t slept since 2024, whispers behind her: “We leave tonight. No titles. No money. Just us.” Smash-cut to them boarding a night train to Berlin with nothing but fake IDs and the kind of eye contact that should come with a health warning.

Then the gut-punch: a grainy, clearly phone-filmed leak from an Oxford college chapel at 2 a.m. Ruby in James’s oversized Beaufort blazer, James on one knee, both of them whispering Latin vows that definitely aren’t part of any curriculum. The trailer freezes on Ruby’s tear-streaked face as she breathes, “Till death do us part… or until they find us.” Cue record scratch. Because “they” might have already won.

Here’s what the trailer wants you to believe: after Ruby’s brutal suspension and James torching every bridge with the Beaufort empire, our favorite enemies-to-lovers are finally free. New city. New names. New life. Ruby’s mum Elaine has apparently rented them a tiny Kreuzberg flat with fairy lights and second-hand furniture. James is supposedly enrolled at Humboldt University under the gloriously basic alias “Jamie Berg.” There are cute shots of them grocery shopping, Ruby teaching James how to cook spaghetti without setting off the smoke alarm, and one heart-melting moment where he falls asleep on her lap on the U-Bahn while she strokes his hair like he’s the most fragile thing she’s ever held.

But then the trailer flips the script so hard your neck will hurt.

At the 1:38 mark, Lydia (Sonja Weißer) appears on a Berlin street, eight months pregnant, clutching a sonogram and screaming James’s name. Cut to Angus (Fedja van Huêt) smirking in the ruins of the Beaufort boardroom: “You can run, son, but blood always finds blood.” And the final sting? A close-up of the photograph that started it all: Ruby and James asleep in each other’s arms at the Season 1 lake house, now pinned to a Berlin detective’s evidence board with the caption “Kidnapping or Elopement?”

The fandom is feral. TikTok is flooded with theories that Mortimer faked his financial ruin to lure James into a trap. Someone slowed down the chapel scene and swears the stained-glass window behind them is the exact one from the Beaufort family crest. Another user noticed Ruby keeps touching a tiny scar on her ring finger like she’s hiding something under a bandage. Wedding ring? Tracker? Both?

And that’s where the seven exclusive Berlin set leaks come in, because what Prime Video isn’t showing you is somehow even more unhinged:

Paparazzi shots of Damian and Harriet filming a rain-soaked argument outside a Berlin registry office. Ruby’s holding divorce papers. James is literally on his knees in a puddle begging.
A leaked call sheet revealing a flashback episode titled “The Lie We Told Elaine,” where Ruby’s mum apparently helped forge their new identities, only to discover James never actually transferred the money he promised for her cancer treatment.
Behind-the-scenes Polaroids of the entire cast crying during table reads, because the final two episodes are reportedly so brutal the director gave everyone therapy dogs on set.
A secretly recorded video from the wrap party where Damian drunkenly told the crew, “Season 3 ends exactly how Season 1 began: Ruby walking away from James. Only this time, she’s the one with the power.”
Set photos of Cyril (Runa Greiner) in Berlin, now sporting a prison jumpsuit in what looks like a visitor room scene. Someone’s getting charged with something.
The most soul-destroying leak of all: a script page that circulated on a private fan Discord showing Ruby discovering she’s pregnant, two weeks after James disappears in episode 8. The final line? “He always said he’d burn the world to keep me safe. Turns out he just burned himself.”
And finally, the one that has the entire fandom drafting manifestos: a grainy photo from the Season 3 poster shoot where Ruby and James are standing back-to-back in wedding attire, but their shadows on the wall are reaching for each other like they’re being torn apart.

Prime Video’s official synopsis is pure evil: “Some love stories end in happily ever after. Others end in court.” The comments are disabled for a reason.

So is their Berlin fresh start real? Is the chapel wedding legitimate or just another Beaufort deception? Did James fake his emancipation to protect Ruby from something worse than expulsion? Or is Mortimer pulling strings from a supposed prison cell, turning their “new life” into the longest con in Maxton Hall history?

One thing is certain: when Maxton Hall Season 3 premieres May 22, 2026, we’re all going to need therapy, tissues, and possibly a lawyer.

Because Ruby Bell and James Beaufort didn’t just run away together.

They ran straight into the endgame.

And someone isn’t making it out alive.