Sartaj Singh
Vince Staples will soon head to Hollywood North for his satirical comedy series! The filming of the second season of Netflix’s ‘The Vince Staples Show’ will start in Vancouver, British Columbia, on January 22, 2025, and wrap up on March 28, 2025. Ian Edelman and Maurice Williams continue to serve as the showrunners, with William Stefan Smith confirmed to return as the head director.
The final episode of the first installment offers a comprehensive and mind-bending look at Vince’s life. The opening sequences are serene moments from his childhood, with Anita’s words to his father heralding the cascade of financial struggles in the years to come. As his first day at school unfolded, the violence he experienced firsthand was engraved into his mind, setting a precedent for the mindset of survival prevalent in his community. As Vince is welcomed back to his high school to give an inspirational talk to a class, the show’s signature surreal visual storytelling begins.
The season ends with Vince concluding his talk, only for a student to stay behind to tell him about his father, whom Vince used to call White Boy in school. The same White Boy confronts Vince in the parking lot and pulls a gun on him. A chase begins that takes the two through a laundromat and a supermarket, with the former becoming a ghost of the rapper’s past that he can’t seem to shake off. Finally, with seemingly no other recourse left, the protagonist ambushes White Boy and shoots him. He goes home while White Boy’s son watches a commercial, waiting for his dad.
There is no telling what ‘The Vince Staples Show’ holds in store for us in the second installment. “There are 365 days in a year, so we’re able to have 365 episodes of this thing because they’re all based on what it’s like to just exist day-to-day,” Vince told Netflix. “Next for Vince is literally anything because anything could happen at any moment, that’s just how life works,” he added.
The sophomore season will feature Vince Staples as a fictionalized version of himself, most likely along with Andrea Ellsworth as Deja, Watts Homie Quan as The Homie, and Vanessa Bell Calloway as Anita. There are bound to be more celebrity cameos like Rick Ross in the first installment.
The first season of the show was mainly shot in Long Beach, California, where Vince grew up. The move to Vancouver can be due to the availability of financial incentives, the need to use studio infrastructure for ambitious sequences, and/or efficiency. The city has also hosted the filming of shows and films like ‘White Chicks,’ ‘Dead Boy Detectives,’ Amazon Prime Video’s ‘Peacemaker,’ and ‘Family Law.’
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