Yeah the end of anatomy of a scandal closes the first story, but it turns out that the series is an anthology. And, yes, there will be a season 2, although it has not yet been officially confirmed by Netflix. And no, the second season is not going to adapt Sarah Vaughan’s latest novel. Reputationwhich will have its own series.
anatomy of a scandal is going to have season 2, just not as you expect. The most logical thing is that you think that the series will continue with the case involving British Prime Minister Tom Southern (Geoffrey Streatfeild) and James Whitehouse (Rupert Friend, who we have already seen the fang before he lands as the Grand Inquisitor, villain among the villains, in the Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi), but that story, if you have looked closely, is already closed and does not have much travel, basically because the only thing it would do would be to insist on the same idea: the privilege of a certain social class with a certain proportion of melanin in the skin . And he would continue with characters that he has already squeezed enough. Well, there would be the exception of press officer Chris Clarke (Joshua McGuire), clearly the MVP of the series. The end of anatomy of a scandal It is not a cliffhanger, nor is it an open ending: the new case is going to end the political career of the Prime Minister for the mere fact that the case comes to light and it is going to end up squandering Whitehouse, who, in the end, gets rid of rape accusations. anatomy of a scandal is an anthology in which each season will tell a new case in the same style as the Amazon Prime Video series A Very British Scandal. this season of anatomy of a scandal, with Westminster in the middle, has taken place in Great Britain, but the next or following seasons in this anthology do not have to stay in Old Albion: the common thread will only be the value judgments that lead to erroneous evaluations of others human beings, and the relationship between power and control. Nor do they have to follow the cases of Kate Woodcroft (Michelle Dockery). That would be going against the very nature of anthologies. Don’t get confused by that scene with Kate smiling because she has nothing to do with a second season.
The same thing happens to Kate as to the character of Olivia (Naomi Scott): it is a merely circumstantial element in the plot of the series. If it had been a series about rape or about a rapist on trial, it would have carried more weight, but here they are in the service of exposing a long life of privilege. And to the extent that he has his own arc where he comes to accept the person he was and gets Holly back, whom he had buried in his memory, the character is out of the picture for a season 2. The problem with sticking with Kate’s cases, apart from the fact that it doesn’t make sense, is that it would lead to a different type of series: a soap opera about lawyers and this is not even the Los Angeles lawthe first big hit from David E. Kelley, co-creator of Anatomy of a Scandal, nor Ally McBeal and has never had signs of being Boston Legal.
Nor will season 2 have to do with the latest novel by Sarah Vaughan, author of the book anatomy of a scandal original that Netflix has adapted (religiously, by the way) to television. Although Reputation has everything necessary to be part of the anthology proposed by Netflix, it will be developed as its own series and independent of season 2 of anatomy of a scandal on the same streaming platform. Reputation tells the story of an American politician who becomes emotionally and professionally involved in her daughter’s bullying case and the suicide of a classmate. She decides to put all her efforts into working on a new law that protects minors from school abuse… until a man turns up dead in her house and she is allegedly involved in the death… There is a trial involved, things that They are not what they seem, characters with a double life… but the shots are not going to go that way. Another thing is that another of Vaughan’s novels was adapted, small disasters, which although it does not have politicians involved, is also about misjudgments (and, of course, there is scandal): a pediatrician wonders who she has been dealing with during her life when a friend shows up at the ER with her baby with wounds that he cannot explain and with a story that makes no sense. Basically the series can shoot anywhere.
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