'Outer Range' Has Been Renewed For Season 2
This story contains spoilers for the Outer Range finale.
As someone in Outer Range would say, woo-doggy! (No Abbott would say that. Pardon my scrambled brain. A totally batshit finale will do that to you.) The final two episodes of Outer Range, which debuted on Amazon Prime back in the spring, delivered a last-minute twist that nears the ranks of Lost and Shyamalan's swerve-heavy catalog. Turns out that Autumn, the mysterious traveler hanging around the Abbott ranch, was Amy Abbott, all grown up.
Now, for the purpose of this story—which is to let you know whether or not there will be a second season of Outer Range—we won't get too lost in the weeds on what did or didn't happen in the season finale. Because we have good news: Amazon finally renewed Outer Range for a second season. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news that a new season is on the way, with a new boss on board. Charles Murray will join Outer Range as its showrunner and an executive producer.
So, where might Season Two of Outer Range take our favorite cowboys? In May, we spoke to Tom Pelphrey, who plays Perry Abbott on the show, and asked him what he'd like to see for this character in Season Two. "I feel like a light gets turned on in Perry that we really only start to see it in Episode Seven," Pelphrey said. "He thinks, whether it's true or not, that he can see a way to fix things, or a way forward. I would love to see what it looks like in Season Two, where Perry is fully activated in pursuit of something, as opposed to a lot of the first season." When I joked that Perry could plausibly wake up in the year 2090, he laughed, and said, "I have no idea what they're trying to cook up, but if you wanted to, you could spin him off in that alternate fucking universe."
So there you go, Perry-wise. It all depends on where (and when) he wakes up. When Season Two happens, we'd likely (rather, hopefully) see where Amy's mother takes her. Whatever happens next, does it set Amy on a path to her demise? Or is Older Amy truly dead? Regardless, figuring out that Autumn is Amy certainly does seem to change Royal. From here, does he embark on a time-traveling quest to make things right? In his various trips through the Hole, we learn that Royal dies, so is he on a futile path as well? If you're confused, it's okay—Outer Range star Josh Brolin is, too. "Who knows, man?" Brolin told The Hollywood Reporter. "I mean, truly. We make all this shit up after the fact." He has his own fair share of questions too, asking, "If we continue this thing, what’s the relationship then with Imogen’s character, Autumn? Where did Amy go? Where did Perry, go? Will he come back? So it’s a great setup. Season One is a great, fun, wild setup." It sounds like Brolin needs his questions answered just as much as we do.
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