THE SOCIETY: Here’s What Would’ve Happened in Season 2
Mike Sprague
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Netflix had already renewed their teen horror series The Society for a second season. Then last week – boom – they canceled the plans due to COVID-19.
And today, creator Christopher Keyser talked a bit about that.
Keyser tells Variety: “We spent the last bunch of months getting ready to go back again, dealing with all the COVID protocols. And then I got a call from Netflix saying, ‘We have made this decision.’ It was obviously pretty upsetting and abrupt… I can’t pretend I’m surprised. I know we had many months of conversations about the challenges of producing in this environment… But to our disadvantage, we have a large cast and scenes often with a fair number of people.”
So what about season 2?
He says: “[Season 2 would have seen] the establishment of what we called the ‘outpost,’ and the eventual conflict between the outpost and the town over control… It raised a lot of large questions about the way in which we treat each other and the way we create caste systems and an underclass. It had big political implications, but also a lot of new relationships — and also resolving questions about who was in power, and who wasn’t. [Season 2 would’ve featured] a descent into greater darkness — the rules don’t hold. We spent a lot of time talking about the reasons why the children of West Ham became the children of New Ham. What the cause of that was, how they might return home.”
The show follows a group of teens who return from a school trip to find everyone else has disappeared. Cut off from the rest of the world, they are forced to form their own society and laws, and things start to go in a very Lord of the Flies direction.
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