The second season of the American reality show Bar Rescue premiered on July 29 to September 30, 2012, on Spike, consisting of a total of 10 episodes.

The series stars renown nightlife consultant Jon Taffer who offers his professional expertise plus renovations and equipment to desperately failing bars in order to save them from closing.

Rock band Halestorm made an appearance during the grand opening of the now defunct Fairfield bar America Live (formerly known as Win, Place or Show).

Furthermore, he has become very lax with his staff, playing favorites and overlooking poor performance and punctuality, including allowing his bartenders to arrive four hours late or even not turning up at all.

Jon goes to Baltimore to help two frat brother owners who don't know how to properly run a bar, including one whose arrogant and abrasive attitude has cost them key staff members.

Jon has a long list to complete at Cheviot when he helps a bar owner who is too busy with his jobs to keep his Irish-German pub in check and has over $800,000 in loans that his family doesn't know about.

Jon's attempts to refurbish a former strip-club-turned-bar in California are complicated by an untrained staff, a head bartender who steals from the till, and a kitchen serving dangerously undercooked food.

Jon has some major hurdles to get over to rebuild a once popular bar, which fell from grace due to a recent change in laws, but has fierce resistance with regular customers who scare away women.

Note: For the recon in this episode, Jon brought in the owner and general manager of Angel's Sports Bar (re-branded as Racks Billiards & Bourbon), featured in the series premiere.

Extremes also appeared in season 4 and was originally going to be the first re-rescue but instead became Jon's second ever walkout when owner Terry refused to reinvest in his bar which caused the failure after the first rescue.