Diksha Sundriyal
Prime Video’s ’56 Days’ spins a twisted romance between Oliver and Ciara, whose meetcute at the grocery store turns into something much more as they spend more time with each other. 56 days after their first meeting, a dead body is found in Oliver’s apartment, which leads the detectives down a rabbit hole that unravels the couple’s most shocking secrets. In eight episodes, we learn that both Oliver and Ciara have been lying to each other, while also developing a bond that makes them question everything about themselves.
The season finale delivers the answers to major mysteries like the victim’s and the culprit’s identity, which means that we might not get a second season of the show. It is adapted from the standalone novel of the same name by Catherine Ryan Howard. With no sequel to the book and the season tying up all the major loose ends, a sophomore season seems unlikely. Still, Prime Video has not confirmed the show’s fate so far, which means if a second season is greenlit, it might release sometime in 2028. SPOILERS AHEAD.
56 Days Season 2 Could Unravel a New Mystery
Given that Ciara and Oliver find their happy ending in ’56 Days’ Season 1 finale, it seems unlikely that the show would return to them for a second season. Had the cops still been chasing them, it would have been possible to focus the storyline on their quest to evade the law and be on the run. However, the detectives find some other patsy to take the fall for the murder, which serves them well, too. This leaves no reason for them to go after Oliver and Ciara. Sure enough, about a year or two have passed when we see Oliver and Ciara in the last scene with their baby. With everything tied up so neatly, it would make sense to focus on a completely different murder rather than pulling at the strings of the first one.
Thus, ’56 Days’ could become an anthology where the timeline of 56 days becomes crucial to solving a crime. Alternatively, the writers may wish to keep the focus on Oliver and Ciara, based on how well the audience gets to know them over the course of the first season. While their new life seems picture perfect, Ciara does admit that they are both crazy in their own ways, and wonders what kind of crazy their child would be. This shows that while they might have run away from Boston, trouble might still follow them in the form of another murder, which could become the focus of the second season.
56 Days Season 2 Would Introduce a New Slate of Characters
The cast of ’56 Days’ Season 2 would be based entirely upon the route the story takes. If the writers decide to take it forward as an anthology, then it would mean an entirely new set of characters, which means fresh faces and fresh chaos. Even with a new murder mystery, there is a chance that detectives Lee and Karl might return, which would bring back Dorian Missick and Karla Souza into the mix. Meanwhile, if Oliver and Ciara continue to be at the center of the story, Avan Jogia and Dove Cameron will reprise their roles. This could also mark the return of Megan Peta Hill as Shyla. While Oliver and Ciara might remain the suspects in the second season as well, the story would still need a victim, which leaves room for new actors to enter the stage and shake things up for the characters and push them to show their worst versions.
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