Arcane
The Dirt Under Your Nails
TV Flash files “The Dirt Under Your Nails” as a desk essential hour — Arcane (2021–2024) on Netflix, season 2, episode 9, aired 2024-11-23, 50 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E09: listed hour 18 of 18 in the Arcane guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 2024-11-23 (50 min). The listed hour before it is “Killing Is a Cycle” (S02E08). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The Dirt Under Your Nails”. The Dirt Under Your Nails as saga close: two seasons ending the story on purpose, critic-proof craft still character-first rather than a sequel tease.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Magic. Science. Power. Revenge. Destinies clash in an epic final chapter, igniting an all-out war.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Dirt Under Your Nails sit in the Arcane guide?
S02E09 is listed hour 18 of 18 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 9.
When did Arcane S02E09 air?
The Dirt Under Your Nails aired 2024-11-23 and is listed at 50 minutes.
Do I need to know League of Legends?
No. The series tells a self-contained sister-and-class story readable without playing. Game IP is the setting; character and Fortiche's painted action are the point.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Watch even if you never touched League of Legends: Vi and Jinx's sisterhood as geopolitics, Fortiche animation painted with lightning. Christian Linke and Alex Yee turned game IP into critic-proof art across two seasons that close the saga. Character, design, and action direction are the point.
November 6, 2021, Netflix. Christian Linke and Alex Yee, Riot Games and French studio Fortiche, turned League of Legends IP into critic-proof art: Zaun and Piltover tearing apart as sisters Vi and Jinx choose opposite revolutions — class war, hextech, animation that looks painted with lightning. Hailee Steinfeld voices Vi; Ella Purnell voices Jinx; a sibling tragedy that outruns fandom prerequisites. Season one detonated. Season two in 2024 closed the planned saga. **Two seasons, eighteen episodes, story-complete…
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