THE ACOLYTE Showrunner Teases "Four to Five Major Mysteries" For Season 2 if it Happens
Regardless of what you think about Lucasfilm’s Star Wars: The Acolyte series, lots of fans are watching it, and with those views comes the possibility of a Season 2.
Now, we have no idea if a second season will happen, but if it does, series showrunner Leslye Headland has set up a few mysteries to explore if it does happen.
During an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Headland shared that she mostly focused on telling a complete story across Season 1, while leaving some room for surviving characters to grow in potential future seasons.
Headland said: "I remember reading that Vince Gilligan in writing and doing the first season of Breaking Bad really didn't plan on, 'We're getting seven more seasons, and this is what's going to happen to Walter White.'
“It was much more, 'Here's everything we got. We're throwing everything at the wall.' And then with the pickup, he mapped out, 'Okay, here's what's going to happen over the course of however many seasons.’ So I took that approach with this. I threw everything into season 1, because who knows what's going to happen?
She went on to say: “And then I'd say there are four to five major mysteries and plot points that have to get hit in season 2, but until we get a proper pickup, I worry that spending a lot of time in that world — especially being in a period where I've worked so long on this project that honestly I'm exhausted by it coming out — to kind of jump right into like, ‘All right, season 2….
Headland explained: “It will probably be more that I know what needs to happen, and I know what the character development needs to be in order to hit the plot points and the character points for a second, third, or fourth season. So I look forward to working on that, but right now, I haven't."
She continued: "I'll tell you my philosophy on first seasons. Something that I've noticed is first seasons will end on what should have been the break into act two. It feels like everyone's really expecting to get a second season, and I don't feel that's a good idea.
“I think you should put everything you can into the first season and give the audience a nice resolution that feels satisfying, but enough nods to mysteries that you would want to see a second season.
The creator concluded: “So it's a little bit of both. You don't want to leave it so wrapped up that, like Obi-Wan or a standalone mini-series, that there's no reason to watch a second season, but I think there's enough stuff in the last few episodes that you would want to have answered."
Fans of the series will have a much better idea of what a second season might look like after this first season comes to an end. One thing we can expect, though, is a solid ending that closes out a complete story, and I’m sure fans will appreciate that.