Great news for fans of the show
If something is popular, there’s always a way of bringing it back and in terms of television, this has proven to be the case in recent years.
Shows like American Horror Story, True Detective and The Haunting of Hill House have gone down the anthology route, but as mentioned previously The End of the Fucking World is a very different property.
Why? Well, SPOILER ALERT…
There’s the small matter of James’ fate and the gunshot.
Well, in a previous interview with Collider, the show’s creator,Jonathan Entwistle said that James isn’t exactly central to any future direction that the show could take.
“No, I don’t necessarily think it does [change the message of the show],” he told Collider of his potential death.
“In some ways, the cleanest, most epic, emo teenage ending is what we have. And it’s literally like the crystallised version of this heightened world that we have there at the end. So, to a certain extent, it’s the perfect circle for James. He always thought he was a psychopath, but meeting Alyssa made him deal with the things that… he obviously wasn’t a psychopath and he sort of knew that all along.”
Speaking about James’ narrative arc and that final scene, he said: “then he became her protector, if that makes sense, and then he realises that the biggest sacrifice to save everything is to run at the end, essentially; is to leave, to split up from her because, by association with him, she’s just going to have kind of a bad life.”
Well, the world hasn’t ended. In fact, it’s even f**king better than before because Season 2 is officially in production.
"The End of the Fucking World" Season 2 is officially in production! #TEOTFW pic.twitter.com/csviIhHBI0
— Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) March 4, 2019
There are various theories about how James could be involved in another season and the most plausible one revolves around the use of his voiceover throughout the show.
“All his voiceover is in the past tense in the show until the final line. So a lot of people have lots of conjecture about where the story goes because James is always in the past tense and the series voiceover is in the present tense, and until James delivers the final line of the show. So you can read into that what you will,” he said.
In a previous interview with Thrillist, the series creator said that he’s currently exploring ways in which they could “continue the tone of the show”
“We’re looking at what the people who loved the show are saying, to see how we can unpack that and how we could continue the tone of the show. Because I think that is so crucial. For me, it’s about James and Alyssa – and I think that’s what people have connected with. I think a season two would have to involve James and Alyssa somehow.
“I just love the world of them out there on the road, doing something in a weird world. So for me, any story that we expand keeps them out there somewhere,” he said.
