Warning: This post contains spoilers for season one of Dead to Me.
I don’t know about you, but I binged Dead to Me in two days and have been waiting with bated breath to find out if the show has been renewed for season two and Netflix has officially announced today another season is on its way!
#DeadToMe has been renewed for Season 2!! #NetflixFYSee pic.twitter.com/uYyB9XuJki
— See What's Next (@seewhatsnext) June 4, 2019
Season one ended on a serious cliffhanger after Steve (James Marsden) is shot at Jen’s (Christina Applegate) house – though we’re not 100 per cent sure it was actually Jen that shot him.
The last shot we see is Jen and Judy (Linda Cardellini) looking into Jen’s pool at Steve’s dead body floating in the water – talk about a cliffhanger.
Now, Dead to Me’s creator Liz Feldman has revealed season one was never meant to end like that.
Speaking with Uproxx, she revealed she didn’t initially intend for Steve to die.
“I originally had pitched an entire season to Netflix, which is the pitch that I sold them. And my ending was… I did not go as far as to kill Steve. Sometimes, when things are pitched in the writer’s room, there is an electricity that takes over the room, you can feel this sort of palpable buzz because it’s a good idea and everybody knows it.
“That’s what happened when they brought up the possibility of killing Steve. I thought it was kind of a big swing. . . . I’m not going to say [what the ending was] because that’s something that we still may use.”
Now we’re super curious about what the ending was originally meant to be. Did Judy get hit by a car and survive? Maybe Jen ended up forgiving her at her hospital bed?
With Steve dying, season two will see Jen and Judy sharing a deadly secret in common. Liz explained how the twist ending brings the women together:
“Yeah, the idea was to force them back together to deal with their complicated relationship. Obviously, Jen and Judy have a love for each other, but once Jen finds out what Judy has done, that’s a very difficult thing to forgive.
“So, we wanted to set them on an even footing. They’re forced together to keep this secret if you will. And in doing so, will be confronted with having to forgive each other.”
Bring on season two!