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The story of Fraser and Caitlin seems to be over. Whereas the We Are Who We Are TV present isn’t precisely cancelled, HBO has confirmed that there’s no second season within the works. Nonetheless, the present’s creator needs to make extra.
A dramatic collection from Luca Guadagnino, We Are Who We Are stars Chloë Sevigny, Jack Dylan Grazer, Alice Braga, Jordan Kristine Seamón, Spence Moore II, Child Cudi, Religion Alabi, Francesca Scorsese, Ben Taylor, Corey Knight, Tom Mercier, and Sebastiano Pigazzi. The story follows two American youngsters who dwell on a United States navy base in Italy. The collection explores friendship, old flame, identification, and the entire messy exhilaration and anguish of being a young person. Shy and introverted, fourteen-year-old Fraser Wilson (Grazer) strikes from New York to a navy base in Veneto together with his moms, Sarah (Sevigny) and Maggie (Braga), who’re each within the U.S. Military. In the meantime, Caitlin Poythress (Seamón) is seemingly daring and assured. She’s lived together with her household on the identical base for a number of years and speaks Italian. In comparison with her older brother Danny (Moore II), Caitlin has a better relationship with their father, Richard (Cudi), and doesn’t talk nicely together with her mom Jenny (Alabi).
Airing on Sunday nights, the first season of We Are Who We Are averaged a 0.01 ranking within the 18-49 demographic and 72,000 viewers. It’s one of many channel’s weakest performers within the conventional scores however pay-for-view cable channels depend on these lower than different shops.
A co-production of HBO and Sky Atlantic, the collection aired for eight episodes, from September till November of 2020. We Are Who We Are appeared to have come to a pure conclusion however might additionally return for season two.
We now know that extra of the collection isn’t doubtless within the playing cards, a minimum of within the instant future. When requested in regards to the collection when speaking to THR, HBO’s content material chief, Casey Bloys, shared, “[We Are Who We Are creator] Luca Guadagnino is off doing different tasks, so I don’t know. There aren’t any plans in the mean time for season two.”
Amongst Guadagnino’s quite a few different future tasks are to direct a story characteristic adaptation of the 2017 documentary Scotty and the Secret Historical past of Hollywood, a brand new model of Scarface written by the Coen brothers, and a brand new adaptation of the Lord of the Flies novel. A sequel to the Name Me By Your Identify film has additionally been mentioned. It’s not recognized how latest allegations about star Armie Hammer will have an effect on plans for the latter.
Final yr, Guadagnino expressed hopes of returning to discover extra of the We Are Who We Are characters’ relationships. He said:
“Me and my stunning writers, we already wrote a Bible for the second season,” he mentioned, referencing co-creators Sean Conway, Paolo Giordano, and Francesca Manieri. “However we now have to see. We did it as a result of we had been locked down [during the pandemic], and we didn’t wish to waste our time. In lockdown, making Zoom calls, we thought in regards to the characters and we got here up with one thing [for Season two]. We’ll see. I’m very curious to understand how that is obtained. You’ll be able to see that this can be a very pricey mission to me. I really feel it as one thing very near me, and I’m very pleased that I’ve completed it. So if HBO and Sky can be sport for making the nice solid return to their nice characters, I will probably be there.”
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What do you think? Did you benefit from the We Are Who We Are TV collection? Would you watch season two on Sky Atlantic or HBO?