The 'Panic' Author and Showrunner Is Hopeful for Another Season

Jun. 3 2021, Published 1:03 p.m. ET

Spoiler alert: This article contains display spoilers for Panic.

Many younger adult books that are tailored for tv or film finally end up doing pretty well, and now, the Amazon Prime collection Panic may also be added to the record. It's in accordance with a book of the same identify via Lauren Oliver, who additionally serves as the collection' showrunner. The book and display observe a group of recent high school graduates who meet in secret to play a game referred to as — you guessed it — Panic.

The recreation is one of the vital gamers' only probability at getting out of their one-stoplight Texas town, Carp. With the prize being $50,000 and the demanding situations involving going through their wildest fears and hanging their lives at risk, there's a number of *panic* to move around. But there's also heaps of drama a few of the participants, and it helped force the sequence in its inaugural season.

But will there be a Season 2 of 'Panic'?

So some distance, there hasn't been an reliable renewal from Amazon Prime about Panic. The fan reception was mostly sure following the 10 episodes of its first season, so that's promising no less than. And Lauren Oliver has mentioned she has plans to transport forward with more of the Panic story if the show is picked up for every other season at the streaming platform.

"Where are they a year later, after this, as adults in the town?" she told Variety of the youngsters who performed the game in Season 1. "People come home. There's an interaction between the classes as they attempt to take control back." She added, "I hope we kill somebody off in Season 2 — only to show that that is the game."

Lauren additionally instructed Entertainment Tonight that there is numerous subject material imaginable for a second season of Panic. She identified that Sheriff Cortez, who was published to be the mastermind in the back of numerous demise and making a bet on the recreation, was killed off within the final scenes of Season 1. And, to her, "there will certainly be ramifications for that."

What would the plot of 'Panic' be in Season 2?

Season 1 of Panic ended with many of the storylines tied up in some lovely neat bows. Heather seems okay with staying in Carp, at least in the interim; Natalie nonetheless has plans to go away the city for Los Angeles; Dodge is able to embark on his own journey; and Ray is in spite of everything embracing his softer aspect with Heather. Let's take a minute to swoon over Heather and Ray getting their glad ending.

Bishop leaves town to wait faculty, marking the tip of his own reports in Carp. But there may be a voiceover from Heather mentioning how no one is aware of who started the sport Panic, as we see a mysterious automobile filled with other people tossing a scarecrow with the sheriff's badge in its mouth onto her automotive at the freeway.

Season 2 of Panic could revisit the gamers of the sport a 12 months after the occasions of the primary season as they all reunite in Carp after a summer season away. Maybe the sport will want them again for another round. Or, they're tasked with attending to the ground of the sport itself to forestall it once and for all.

There are indubitably places the show may just cross. It just wishes that reputable renewal.

Watch Panic on Amazon Prime.

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