Spoilers to The girlfriend front.
If you read this you have binet all six episodes of The girlfriend On first -class video faster than the speed of light. The adaptation feels even darker and more explicit than Michelle Frances’ original novel, and frankly it’s a tough watch that we don’t want to stop experiencing. But what if I told you that maybe we shouldn’t need it?
Granted, the Amazon sold us the TV show as a six -part -limited series, but as Rival Netflix likes to tell us, it’s not always fixed. But certainly section 6s finale means we don’t see The girlfriend Again, right? Laura (Robin Wright) ends up dying in the family pool held by son Daniel (Laurie Davidson), and only realized what could have happened too late.
We see a pregnant cherry (Olivia Cooke) smiling at him in the garden, while Daniel is watching a video on Laura’s phone – it’s by Cherry’s mother who warns Laura about exactly what her daughter is capable of. In fact, her last words were: “She wants to get rid of you somehow.”
It’s a cooling down of words, and with Laura now good and really out of the picture, the cat-and-mouse dynamics we’ve seen is no more. But when I caught the show’s producers, Andy Serkis (yes, that costly one) and Jonathan Cavendish, the one sticky point to The girlfriend Season 2 to happen is completely different.
Girlfriend season 2 could come to prime video ‘if Amazon will’ Despite the Final
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“We decided – and this wasn’t our original thing – which we would very much like to do another season if Amazon would,” Cavendish tells me. “Season 2 could really go on the same story told in a different way.”
How likely does it seem like Amazon would order another season? It’s not impossible. If The girlfriend‘s first 28 days after the view figures are impressive enough, which will definitely be enough value in the streamer investment in several episodes, and it would not be the first time a limited series became strictly unlimited.
But I think back on my time as a scriptwriting -candidate student while Cavendish speaks. Each time you set an ideal for a TV show, it is essentially standard practice to prove that it can be “returnable” (ie return for more than one season). The more you can prove this, the more likely you are to get something made.
Then came the idea of season 2 from a need to make The girlfriend Returnable? “It didn’t expose us at all,” Cavendish says of Prime Video Show as a limited series. “It’s six episodes and we like to make movies and TV shows where the length of the story is a natural fit.
“But also the world is so extraordinary. The series ends on one of the biggest ‘Oh good’ moments possible.”
Serkis adds: “And there are so many good parts in this. That’s really the main reason we wanted to work on the project. The two views, the turns, it’s just such an extraordinary piece of writing. When we first came over it, we knew this was one of these things that we would … It feels like the role crew owns a story.”
I think The girlfriend Season 2 should exist? No. But if a sequel or spinoff could convince me otherwise than never to say never stream anything new.
