Netflix’s latest coming-of-age drama The Body blends Catholic guilt, teenage girl angst and elements of supernatural horror.
The critically-acclaimed show centres around members of a Catholic school dance troupe who believe they have stumbled upon supernatural spirits after an initiation ceremony goes awry.
If you’ve already binged your way through all eight episodes and are wondering whether a follow-up could be on the cards, you’re definitely not alone – and after that shocking cliffhanger finale, we have no end of questions.
Here’s everything we know about the future of The Body…
Will The Body get a season 2 on Netflix?
Netflix has not yet officially greenlit a season two of The Body, and it’s currently too early to tell if viewership will be enough to encourage the streamer to commit to another run of episodes.
The drama did hit Netflix’s top five in the UK within days of its release, so fingers crossed that enough people will have streamed it to encourage a renewal
Some positive news is the fact critics loved The Body, with the series currently hold a rare 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
What have the writers said about The Body season 2?
The first series of The Body might have only hit Netflix, but showrunner Quinn Shephard is already cooking up ideas for the second season.
“I can’t talk about it much,” the writer told What’s On Netflix. “I would say that there are some season two ideas percolating in my brain and in [producer Gina Gammell’s] brain. I think we’d be so lucky if we got one and we would love to bring it to life.”
If the spooky drama does get renewed, Quinn already knows how to inspire her season two writer’s room.
“The actual score to the show is incredible,” she enthused of Christopher Stracey’s musical contributions to the show. “I think when I’m writing season two, I will probably just listen to the score that we have now because it’s like the best Catholic Mass you’ve ever been to, but make it a rave, and it really sounds like that.”
Meanwhile, executive producer Gina Gammell also told Movie Web: “I think we know – if we were so lucky to get a second season – some of what, exactly what, precisely what would happen. I think we know where it goes.”
What has the cast of The Body said about a potential season 2?
According to Decider, every cast member who spoke to the outlet said that they are “absolutely” down to reprise their roles if the drama was picked up again.
“With Grace, I feel like it could be played either like that, like she’s been listening the whole time and obviously she has a close relationship with God so she could have been waking up just purely out of a coma and just hearing things around her,” Sara Boustany, who plays Elise told Decider.
“There’s so much confusion that it probably maybe has nothing to do with anything. I don’t know.”
What could viewers expect from a season 2 of The Body?
Quinn Shephard said she would be excited to give Grace more dialogue, seeing as she spent most of the first series either in a coma or appearing to people as a mysterious entity
“I think we’re very excited that Grace is now awake and we’ll have dialogue definitely instead of just everyone projecting all of their fears and desires onto her,” she teased to What’s On Netflix.
The Body is now streaming on Netflix.
