The Other Two charts its return for season three
The third season of Comedy Central-turned-HBO Max series The Other Two returns in May
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It’s a good day to stan Chase Dreams: The Other Two returns to HBO Max for its third season on May 4.
In a first look for the new season in Vanity Fair, co-creator Sarah Schneider teases, “This is definitely our most ambitious season so far… We just take a lot of big swings and try a lot of big premises, because we as writers don’t want to be bored.”
When we last left the Dubeks, it was March 2020 and they were on the precipice of getting everything they ever wanted. Brooke, Chase, Pat, and Streeter were enjoying some much-needed time off on some warm island, while Carey was finally about to shoot a role in his first movie Night Nurse on March 13.
Of course, we all know what happened, the Schnieder and her co-creator Chris Kelly have no interest in rehashing the early days of Covid-19 and the lockdowns that came with them. “We did just skip right the hell over that,” Kelly tells the outlet, while allowing that the pandemic will still affect the characters, just as it has affected every person on the planet.
“Our show is so grounded in what feels real and current. We didn’t want to make a show that completely ignored our current situation and the ongoing effects of living through a global pandemic,” Kelly continues. “We are three years in the future, but all of our characters have been impacted in some way by what we’ve all gone through. And we just tried to explore different funny routes that that would take them.” While the new episodes are still weeks away, VF promises storylines about the Dubeks, now years into their fame, experiencing new but familiar humiliations, and Chase Dreams turning 18 and making the leap from child to adult star.
Of course, the recent, er, troubles experienced by Warner Bros. Discovery may have raised concerns for fans about the fate of the series, but Kelly and Schneider assure that it had little bearing on their process for this season. “We’re just kind of doing our own thing,” Kelly explains. “We hear the things about HBO and HBO Max and stuff, but we just sort of keep working and keep making the show. I guess it’s sort of a separate thing.” Hopefully, it stays a second thing for as long as this crew wants to keep making this show.
The first two seasons of The Other Two are now streaming on HBO Max.
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this is a very funny show
let’s go. people must actually be watching or it would have been canceled by now. was definitely expecting some ‘it’s done’ news.
I had assumed that this show was one of the first cut out in the WB purge.
This will almost definitely be the last season since *gestures broadly at WB Discovery* but I’m looking forward to it. I just hope they had some foresight to not leave it on a cliffhanger.
With the big break between S1 & 2, and the tenuous existence of the show in general, hopefully they assume any season they do needs to be at least semi-wrapped up.More of this show is some of the best entertainment news I’ve seen in a while.
I wish this show was more widely known because it’s pretty great.
Sounds good, it’s a fun show. Kinda makes me miss Difficult People tho, which had way sharper dialogue. More Julie Klausner on TV, please.
I love Julie agree Difficult People had sharper dialogue, but I think The Other Two has funnier plotlines.
Between this and Industry Season 3 happening I’m honestly kind of shocked. https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a43271982/industry-season-3-cast/
Really fond of the “This is definitely our most ambitious season so far” quote, I see.
And you know what? Me too!
Glad this one and Hacks is surviving. Though I’m continuing my eyeroll at every show needing to “address” the pandemic and find some way to write around it when they… could just not incorporate it into a made up thing? It was hard enough in reality
S3 of this funny show is almost as surprising as Galavant, Season 2.
It’s a fun show