It was the shock heard across the Web on Friday when Netflix introduced that it was canceling I Am Not Okay with This and The Society, each younger grownup dramas that had previously been renewed by the streaming service. Netflix defined that because of COVID-19 and the scheduling conflicts the pandemic manufacturing shutdown has triggered throughout all of Hollywood, it might not be possible to deliver the exhibits again for sophomore seasons.
For Chris Keyser, showrunner and government producer of The Society, the information got here after months of working diligently to get his solid and crew again to set. In an exclusive interview with Variety, the producer revealed that they’d been set to movie the second season in March in the beginning was shut down, and anticipated to return to work in September, however Netflix pulled the plug forward of time. Since Netflix owns and produces the present, Keyser admitted it is a lengthy shot that the sequence might be revived at one other community, however he’s starting to consider methods to inform followers what the plan was for the season.
Within the meantime, he revealed the broad thematic strokes of what was going to occur in Season 2. On the finish of Season 1, the youngsters of New Ham — a gaggle of excessive schoolers who have been mysteriously dumped in an alternate dimension model of their hometown with out their mother and father and compelled to create a brand new society of their very own till they may work out methods to return dwelling — managed to seek out farmable land and animals to hunt for brand spanking new meals. Keyser teased that the youngsters who ran the brand new outpost and people on the town would come into battle within the new episodes.
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“[The season] raised numerous giant questions on the way in which by which we deal with one another, and the way in which we create caste techniques and an underclass,” he stated. “It had large political implications, but additionally numerous new relationships — and likewise resolving questions on who was in energy, and who wasn’t.”
That battle would put numerous stress on the tenuous set of legal guidelines the youngsters had created to keep up order amongst themselves. There would have been, “a descent into larger darkness — the foundations do not maintain,” Keyser stated cryptically.
For now, the solid and crew are nonetheless mourning the lack of the present and have made no concrete plans of methods to transfer ahead. Nonetheless, Keyser acknowledges that The Society‘s cancellation is only one of many losses attributable to the pandemic.
“That is extraordinarily upsetting,” he added. “However it might be for anybody. We have now no alternative however to, as so many individuals do inside this era, cope with the losses that this pandemic has triggered. I suppose we’re like all these small companies and eating places that closed and are not going to reopen. Our persons are out of jobs, however that is true throughout the nation.”
The Society Season 1 is now accessible to stream on Netflix.
Katherine Newton, The Society