HBO Max renews Made For Love for a second season
Writer Alissa Nutting is now joining Christina Lee as co-showrunner on the series
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Today, HBO Max announced that it had renewed its dark comedy series Made For Love for a second season, bringing back showrunner Christina Lee and adding additional showrunner Alissa Nutting (who was an executive producer on season one and wrote the book that the show is based on). This news comes from a press release, which is predictably light on spoilers for a TV season that hasn’t been made it, but it’s at least implied that the whole cast—which included star Cristin Milioti, Billy Magnussen, and Ray Romano—will all be returning. Without getting into spoilers, though, it would be notable if any one of them didn’t come back.
The first season of Made For Love was about a woman named Hazel who tried to escape from a toxic marriage to a manipulative tech billionaire, only to discover that he planted a chip in her brain that allowed him to monitor everything she did. Milioti played the woman, Magnussen was the bad husband, and Romano played Milioti’s elderly father. The season ended with a cliffhanger-y twist, with Milioti agreeing to follow Magnussen back to his high-tech sanctuary in exchange for trying to save her father’s life, and The A.V. Club got multiple perspectives on how and why Hazel came to that particular decision—both from Lee and Nutting and from Milioti herself. Earlier this year, Milioti also noted how excited she was for a then-hypothetical second season, saying it would give her a chance to try “the Russian doll of performing” since her character has to find new ways to lie to everyone in her life and work around the chip in her head. Milioti also teased that she wants to see her character get “to the boss level of the video game” and follow Hazel as she gets stronger and stronger.
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Expected but good. Watching a few episodes of How I Met Your Mother and man, Miloti being allowed to be happy in a show would be such a treat.
after her performance in Palm Springs I’m pretty confident she should be getting work like, everywhere. she is fucking brilliant in that movie
It was odd to me that she got no major awards recognition for that. Seemed like an obvious way to nominate the highlight of a critical hit that everyone liked.
That movie is such a dark horse; I had NO idea what I was getting into when I started watching it.
The show is a solid B, but the main cast really elevates it, looking forward to where they take it next. Pretty great soundtrack, too.Though as much as I’ve liked Milioti in everything I’ve seen her in, I think she might always be the lady from that one ep of 30 Rock for me. You know, “I’m not wearing any urrrnderwears…”
Yaaaaaaaay.First season was a treat.
I liked Made for Love, but I’m not sure it needs a second season. The ending of the first season was pretty great, and I don’t need to spend another season watching Hazel try to escape.
I don’t necessarily think the second season will be about trying to escape. I think it may be about Hazel learning to beat Byron at his own game. Or about bringing down Gogol from the inside. But mostly I want to know if Herringbone and Fiffany ever make it back after being “put out to pasture.”
I definitely want more Fiffany if for no other reason than it took me, like, six episodes to realize it was actually Fiffany and that the entire cast didn’t have a lisp.
I don’t know why the names Herringbone and Fiffany crack me up so much, but god help me, they do.
Huh? This SO ended like a limited series I’m a bit shocked … but pleasantly surprised. I just don’t know what they would do with it? … I mean, I suppose Saving Herringbone and Fiffany from the field would be a start?
Huh? This SO ended like a limited series I’m a bit shocked … but pleasantly surprised. I just don’t know what they would do with it? … I mean, I suppose Saving Herringbone and Fiffany from the field would be a start?
YES this is very welcome news. More Cristin Milioti is always a good thing also, i’m a little surprised how many people are saying they thought it was perfect as limited series. Those last few minutes felt like a cliffhanger finale to me