*Warning: This article contains spoilers for Every Year After season 1.*
After ending on quite the unexpected cliffhanger, it’s now been confirmed that Prime Video’s Every Year After has been renewed for a second season.
With the first season being based on Carley Fortune’s bestselling novel Every Summer After, the second will use Fortune’s One Golden Summer (which is seen as a companion sequel to the original book) as the basis for the drama to come.
The news was announced by showrunner Amy B Harris – who will continue in that role for season 2 – at the end of a panel talk at Prime Video’s Obsessed Fest.
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Fans will know that the first season not only left on a seemingly good note for leads Percy (Sadie Soverall) and Sam (Matt Cornett), but also saw Charlie (Michael Bradway) suffer a heart attack, when he spied a picture of a younger him, Sam and Percy on the wall of his boss’s office.
One Golden Summer is told from the perspective of Alice, who is set to be Charlie’s love interest and took the very photo in question.
Speaking about the way in which things ended for Charlie at the end of season 1, showrunner Harris told Deadline about the photo: “He lost his brother, he lost that community in Barry’s Bay. There’s this sadness and a heartbrokenness to where he is, and it felt so perfect that Alice’s photo would be the thing that reminded him of the world he loved and has lost.”
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She went on: “It is their family boat, but I feel like it is Charlie’s badge, he’s the one that fixes it up, he’s the one that drives it. Sam’s not allowed to drive that boat,” Bradway said. “Especially in the first season, Sam has Percy, and it’s almost like … and Charlie gets the boat.
“Obviously I read One Golden Summer, and so I knew [the cliffhanger] was coming. I didn’t know exactly when they were gonna put it into the first season, but there’s a couple things that I did in the first episode that you can see, and sprinkled in throughout the season, that is a little teaser to the audience that we knew that this was coming.”
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Morgan Cormack is a Drama Writer for Radio Times, covering everything drama-related on TV and streaming. She previously worked at Stylist as an Entertainment Writer. Alongside her past work in content marketing and as a freelancer, she possesses a BA in English Literature.
