Great news! We’ve also got the plot details.
Given the fact that The End of the F**king World faithfully adapted the original material that it was based on, plenty of people were curious if the Channel 4 hit would be returning for a second season.
After months of speculation, it’s now official.
Since being released on Netflix, the dark comedy has really found its audience and the show’s writer, Charlie Covell, will return for the second season.
The new episodes will premiere globally on Netflix, except in the United Kingdom, where it will air first on Channel 4.
Despite the fact that no official casting was announced, the show’s creator, Jonathan Entwistle, has been speaking with Collider about the prospects of a new series and how it might continue on the story that appeared to have quite a definitive ending.
Entwistle argued that the fate of 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.”
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.
Bring it on.
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