The debut season is over, the fandom are talking about the eight fantastic episodes we’ve all been treated to and naturally eyes turn towards the future for Wim, Fern, KB and Neel and if there is one. While the ratings started off slowly – far below the numbers of the cancelled The Acolyte – this interview with Jon Watts and Chris Ford indicates that those numbers were growing and growing as the episodes arrived each week, pointing towards a very welcome word-of-mouth that just might see their hopes of a second season come to fruition.
EW: So what is the future of this story, and will it be told, and where will it be told, and how will it be told?
WATTS: We haven’t gotten deep into those conversations. I live in New York, Ford’s in Oakland, but everyone that we work with the show on is essentially in Los Angeles and dealing with real life right now. So in terms of what we’re doing next, we’re excited to talk to everyone, but obviously everyone has their hands full right now dealing with the tragedies of the fires. But we’re excited. We’re happy that people are finding the show as well. We’ve slowly been building viewers over each episode, so that’s a really exciting thing to watch that grow, and the word of mouth has been really positive. So we’re excited to get back together with everyone and talk about the future soon.
EW: Do you have season 2 outlines? Do you have scripts ? Or is it just all in your heads?
WATTS: We have ideas in our heads for sure. We’re waiting to find out what everyone else thinks, but we’ve always had an idea of where this could go even before we made the first season. So there’s lots of potential out there and hope everyone sees that.
It’s a fascinsating interview, one that needs to be read in full.
