Netflix’s national parks detective thriller, Untamed, just concluded its first season. The Eric Bana led show was only intended to be a limited series, but fans seem to want more and the creators seem to have more story to tell. Bana stars as Kyle Turner, a man with a nose for criminal cases who makes a living figuring out why people die and disappear in the national parks system. Warning: spoilers for this season’s mystery are ahead.
Here’s what we know so far about a second season of Untamed.
Has Untamed been renewed for season 2?
Untamed was released as a limited series, meaning Netflix planned for it to be only one season. But that hasn’t stopped streaming platforms from continuing a popular singular season show before and it seems like the cast and crew would be interested.
“We spoke about what would happen to Kyle after this, in theory. So you never know,” Bana told Variety.
His co-star, Lily Santiago, said she’s like a season with “more solving of murders,” in an interview with TV Insider, adding, “Honestly, I would love for her to get called up to go to a different place. Bring me to a mountain in Hawai’i. I’m hoping that it’s new murder, new location, wilderness challenges, and new things to learn.”
Creator Mark L. Smith told Tudum what he’s been thinking might be in store for Kyle.
“Instead of Turner being in his element, he’ll be in a land where he doesn’t understand all the dangers and the risks, and he doesn’t understand the people around [him],” he shared. “He’ll be a little bit on his back foot and a little bit unsure, and he’ll have to learn as well.”
What would season 2 of Untamed be about?
The first season followed National Parks Service’s Kyle Turner as he investigates the death of Lucy Cook in Yosemite National Park following her fall from El Capitan. Lucy’s death is at first associated with a drug ring inside the park’s caves, but Turner thinks there is something even fishier about the situation. He eventually learns Lucy was attacked by her biological father, Chief Paul Souter, who placed Lucy in an abusive foster home when she was a child. The show ends with Souter dying by suicide and a few other dramatic twists—but the case gets closed. Unfortunately, Turner gets suspended from the force and moves out of his home in Yosemite.
Co-showrunner Elle Smith said to TV Insider that she has thought about a possible second season and imagines Turner and his partner, Naya, going to a different national park, explaining, “They travel from park to park and case to case and things like that. So I think that’s what was interesting to us, and if we got the opportunity to do it again, it would be getting to explore a different park, a different case.”
She added, “We would do this forever if they let us, but we’ll see. We’ll see how many adventures Turner has left in him.”
Who would star in season 2 of Untamed?
It sounds like Eric Bana is down to come back as Turner, though a season in a new park could potentially present new investigators, a la True Detective. But Bana seems like a fan favorite, as was Lily Santiago as Naya. If they do stick together, but head to a new park, there could be an entirely new cast of supporting players.
This post will be updated.
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