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1899 Season 2 Cancelled: Everything You Need To Know
1899 major spoilers follow.
Jantje Friese and Baran bo Odar, the twisted geniuses behind the German time-travelling mystery mindbender Dark, returned with a new, multilingual multi-genre thriller to further twist our melons.
Set aboard a passenger ship named the Kerberos, 1899 was an epic period drama that sets up a whole new mystery with an international cast who are plunged straight into all the mystery, sci-fi, and horror you'd hope for from a show like this.
Unfortunately, the Netflix powers that be deemed that 1899 would not go on to enjoy the same success Dark did, as the show was cancelled after just one season.
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Bo Odar shared the news in January 2023 in a letter co-signed by series co-creator Freise, writing: "With a heavy heart we have to tell you that 1899 will not be renewed.
"We would have loved to finish this incredible journey with a 2nd and 3rd season as we did with Dark. But sometimes things don't turn out the way you planned.
"That's life," he continued. "We know this will disappoint millions of fans out there. But we want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts that you were a part of this wonderful adventure. We love you. Never forget."
Understandably, the cast themselves were just as disappointed by Netflix's decision not to renew the show. Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, the actor behind Krester, took to Twitter to express his "devastation" with a sweet photo of the cast.
He captioned it: "As a lot of you may already know… 1899 will not be renewed for a 2nd and 3rd season… We are all truly devastated by this fact. This photo was taken the first night I met these people. You can take away the show, but you can't take away family. Thank you all for watching."
Tønnesen followed it up, adding: "I wanna point out that we really really appreciate all of you and your support for 1899. I'm heartbroken we don't get to see where this incredible story ends.
"Unfortunately that's life sometimes. Sour as a mf. Maybe in another simulation things would be different, yeah?"
"I think 1899 is a product of what we're experiencing [with] algorithms and things not given the proper life they deserve," Rosalie Craig told Collider. "[Baran bo Odar] and [Jantje Friese] are people who create series which take time. They're not binge-worthy and you have to sit with the pieces of art and think about them and wait for them to develop. But we live in an instant society so we're a product of that unfortunately.
"There was so much for Virginia out there. I was definitely one of the characters who was about ready to come into her own in season two, and you maybe would find out why she's so dark, so evil, and driven the way she is. I know those things, but I was real excited by exploring them."
Want to know more about what could have been? Jump aboard with Digital Spy to find out everything you need to know about 1899's ill-fated voyage.
1899 season 2 cast: Who would have been back for 1899 season 2?
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The cast for a second season would normally depend on who survived the first, but given 1899's love of period-hopping and twisty sci-fi, even 'dead' characters could make a return if the show is somehow brought back to life following its cancellation. And if you've reached the end of the final episode, you'll know exactly what we mean.
So with that in mind, here are all the main possible candidates who could star in a surprise 1899 season two revival:
There are more potential cast members we could list here, but the Kerberos is a mighty big ship, and there's only so much time in the day to count all those passengers out here. The ones who all jumped overboard are probably gone, but who cares about those guys?
What we will say though is that one more character does pop up towards the end, and he would have gone on to play a huge role in season two, we imagine. That person is Ciaran, Maura's brother, who it is revealed has control of the Prometheus experiment.
While he is in charge of the virtual world that tormented our heroes in season one, it's yet to be seen how much power he has on board the 2099 spaceship that we found ourselves on in the final moments of the show.
So far, he's only known through words appearing on a screen, ostensibly typed by him somewhere else. Is he on the craft? Somewhere else? Unfortunately, we'll have to rely on our own imaginations to decide what happens next.
1899 season 2 plot: What would have happened in 1899 season 2?
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Plot details for 1899 season two are scarce, but we do know that co-creator Jantje Friese originally planned to create multiple seasons of the show.
"Season one is about establishing a big theme, a big thing. Let's see if there's a season two, and then we'll start playing with that theme and have a resolution ideally in the third season. It's like Dark, meant to be told in three seasons," she told IndieWire.
"What we constantly do is play with expectations. You read a code and you expect something and you feel safe in that. You think you figured it out. We're breaking that expectation, and then hopefully giving you a satisfactory answer. At least at the end of season three, but hopefully already during the very first season."
As anyone who's now finished the first season will already know, the lost second season would have involved some huge changes — including a 200-year time jump as our heroes realise they're not in 1899 after all but actually travelling through the stars on an as-yet-undisclosed mission.
"I don't know if it's that wild a theory, but every single person that you see in the final scene is there for a reason," teased Yuk Je actor Gabby Wong in an interview with Metro.
"Even though you might not have gotten any answers or any elaborate elaboration of it in season one, every single person in that room is there for a reason… I read the final episode at four o'clock in the morning while I was breastfeeding my son at the time who was a newborn, and I think I punched my husband," she explained.
"That was my reaction. I punched my husband and punched him awake. 'Oh, that's the ending!'"
Unfortunately, new episodes won't be coming now. Not unless another streamer saves the show. Or maybe, just maybe, Netflix decides to tie up some loose ends in one last special episode.
1899 is now available to watch on Netflix.
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Found Unveils A Twisted Partnership Between Kidnapper And Former Abductee In Series Premiere — Grade It!
In 2003, Gabi Mosely (played by Shanola Hampton) was just a missing teen — alongside a newly abducted Bella (Jasmine Washington) — trying to escape their kidnapper Sir (Mark-Paul Gosselaar). In the present day, she dedicates her life to finding the marginalized individuals who've slipped through the cracks.
Tuesday's series premiere of the NBC drama Found kicked off with a grown-up Gabi using unorthodox methods to save a young boy who'd been taken. Pretending to be a damsel in distress, she convinced the perpetrator to let her into his warehouse before taking him down with one swing. She then offered him two options: tell her where the boy was and then turn himself in to the police, or face the kind of torture that would have him begging for death. He chose the latter.
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While Dhan (Karan Oberoi) roughed up their suspect, Gabi went for the boy, who was hidden away in a nearby building. Despite finding him relatively unharmed, police officer Mark Trent (Brett Dalton) gently reprimanded Gabi for the harsh methods she employed to close out the case, which seemed to be a regular occurrence between the two.
Speaking to reporters, Gabi laid out exactly why she and her crisis management team acted as vigilantes to yet again do what the local police could not. After all, she rescued herself as a teen because no one was looking for her. As she explained, if everyone continued to prioritize the "missing high-profile blonde girls of the world," there would always be a need for what she does. Case in point: Sarah Holden, a senator's daughter who's been missing for just over a day, has received wall-to-wall coverage while Dashika, a Black girl who's been missing for two weeks, has received no media attention at all.
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Recurring flashbacks painted Sir as a controlling man who could snap on a dime. In one past scene that illustrated her potential escape, teenage Gabi pressed Sir for abducting Bella since she was so young, and Sir grew angry at her refusal to follow his script for a "nice" dinner. Bella then burned her arm while cooking and screamed, which sent Sir into a furious rage. He rushed into the kitchen, and Gabi then clocked him in the head with a pan and stole his keys. Both girls ran.
Back to the present, Gabi's newest case arrived in the form of a boy named Deron (guest star Trayce Malachi), who came to her office on behalf of his foster sister Camilla (guest star Chloé Flowers). Although she got into an argument with their foster parents, he knew something was up because she'd been missing for over a day and never would have left him behind. A visit with the foster parents raised suspicions, especially since the doors in the house contained locks that were designed to keep someone in.
With time running out to find Camilla, Gabi convinced the media to show up to a press conference for a "high-profile" case most reporters assumed involved young Sarah Holden. Still, Gabi got Camilla's case some much-needed attention and put pressure on police to finally do something.
Gabi's team followed several promising leads, including Camilla's skeevy older boyfriend Eric and her birth mother Rosario, who threatened to leap from a building before Dhan talked her down. However, their big breakthrough came when Sarah was found wearing Camilla's sweatshirt, which suggested that they were taken together.
Believing that the senator would be reluctant to speak with her, Gabi prepared a blackmail folder as a failsafe. It's a good thing she did because she later realized, while speaking with Sarah, that the kidnapper was also Sarah's brother's drug dealer hoping to score a large ransom. According to Sarah, Camilla helped her escape but could not get away herself. Gabi concluded that with Sarah back home, the kidnapper had no reason to keep Camilla alive, so her team rushed to the rescue. Gabi stormed the drug dealer's house and quickly found Camilla alive in a nearby fallout shelter. Camilla happily reunited with her foster brother at the hospital.
Although the team celebrated another job well done, subsequent scenes showed they were all struggling with their own traumas. Lacey's home contained four locks, a deadbolt and alarm system protecting her front door. Zeke (Arlen Escarpeta), meanwhile, broke down over being unable to go outside and help save more lives. Throughout the hour, he worked diligently from his basement setup.
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Elsewhere, Margaret returned to the same bus station her son was taken from, refusing to give up on finding him despite the years that have already passed.
We ended with Gabi, who opened the four locks guarding her basement. In a surprising turn of events, she'd been keeping her kidnapper Sir chained to a wall. But Sir didn't seem too perturbed by the setup and noted that they "make good partners." Even though Gabi found Camilla with his help, she refused to call what they were doing a partnership. Sticking to the business at hand, she handed him the file to their next case involving a trans woman who was taken in broad daylight.
What did you think of Found's series premiere? Will you continue watching? Grade the episode below, and share your opinions in the comments.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's Performance On The Stand Shows His Twisted Moral Compass
"Well that was insane." That was the first update my colleague Leo Schwartz sent to our team upon leaving the Manhattan courthouse where Sam Bankman-Fried took the stand. A short time later, Leo filed an account of the day's testimony and it was apparent what he was talking about.
A defendant taking the stand is always a risky proposition since it opens the door for them to incriminate themselves on cross-examination. The testimony Bankman-Fried offered on Thursday was only a dry run since the judge had dismissed the jury (part of an unusual arrangement to resolve some of the lawyers' expected wrangling over admissible evidence before the jury's return on Friday), but it was more than enough to show he should have heeded that risk. The one-time FTX mogul was a hot mess on the stand, per Leo:
Bankman-Fried answered in his signature format, a series of misdirections, "yups," and stammers that previous interviewers have described as a "word salad" approach. While it may have worked in the past on unsuspecting reporters, [prosecutor] Sassoon and [Judge] Kaplan were unamused. At one point, Kaplan instructed Bankman-Fried to be more clear, noting that he had an "interesting way of answering questions."
Toward the end, the prosecutor asked, in regard to FTX's safeguards for customer money, "Would that include not embezzling customer assets?" It was a blow below the belt—and disallowed by the judge—but it drove home just how badly this trial has gone for Bankman-Fried. In the course of three weeks, the prosecution has shown how FTX's balance sheet has been in disarray since the beginning, and how a rigged trading platform let him treat client funds as a personal ATM. Then there was the spectacle of Bankman-Fried's top lieutenants and one-time friends lining up to say he was the architect of this massive Ponzi scheme.
In his defense, his lawyers appear set to offer little more than the legal equivalent of "'yups' and stammers." By now, Bankman-Fried's decision not to enter a guilty plea to reduce his sentence looks, well, insane.
The most interesting part of Thursday's events for me, however, was not Bankman-Fried's debacle of a cross-examination. Instead, I found Leo's account of his direct testimony to be most revealing. That testimony involved blaming FTX's lawyers for somehow being responsible for the multibillion-dollar fraud—a far-fetched strategy, especially in light of the secret computer code Bankman-Fried had implemented to siphon customer money. But most of all, I was struck by this line from Leo's account: "After a smooth direct examination, Bankman-Fried's father, Joe Bankman, walked over to give him a grin and a thumbs up."
While any parent will support their child in court, this anecdote also emphasizes the twisted ethical compass of Bankman-Fried and his family. Instead of accepting responsibility for a massive theft, they appear convinced they are morally superior people entitled to their own set of rules. Too bad for them the justice system doesn't work that way. Look for the latest coverage of Friday's trial proceedings on Fortune.Com later today.
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