Creators Affirm Planning For Subsequent Installment

Warning: There are spoilers forward for Peacock’s Ponies.Peacock’s new spy thriller sequence Ponies, which has drawn favorable comparisons to Apple TV’s Sluggish Horses, receives a promising season 2 replace. Ponies season 1 ended with a number of stunning cliffhangers, together with undercover CIA operatives Bea Grant (Emilia Clarke) and Twila Hasbeck (Haley Lu Richardson) being held at gunpoint in Moscow’s American embassy by the KGB after Andrei Vasiliev (Artjom Gilz) escaped captivity.

Throughout an interview with Collider, Ponies co-creators Susanna Fogel and David Iserson verify that they’re planning and “placing all the pieces collectively” for a second season, though they make clear {that a} continuation has not been formally greenlit but by Peacock. Take a look at their feedback beneath:

Susanna Fogel: We might find it irresistible. We’re planning for one.

David Iserson: Yeah, we’re planning for one. We’re placing all the pieces collectively to do it. However I’ll simply be as clear with you as I can: We have no idea.

Fogel and Iserson had been requested in the event that they thought-about an ending that supplied extra emotional decision, however confirmed that this was by no means the case, as they’d at all times pitched it to Peacock as an ongoing sequence with quite a few seasons deliberate. In addition they tease increasing the long run scope past Moscow and making the story extra worldwide.

David Iserson: No. We at all times pitched this as an ongoing tv present, which, for some time, was sort of out of vogue, however now I believe it’s again. We did not see this as a closed story from any model of it. Once we approached our actors, it was arduous to forged a present with well-known folks. It is a lot simpler to say, “Oh, we must be there for six months.” So, all of the actors knew that getting into, and once we offered this present to Peacock, we instructed them the entire story, overlaying a number of seasons. It modified, however there are issues that we’ll maintain on to from the start.

Susanna Fogel: For us, this friendship and these ladies are the pleasure of the present. As David was saying, whenever you’re making an attempt to entice folks to signal away seven years of their life, you are like, “I promise it’ll be value it.” Or 12 years of your life. If you’re speaking about other ways to maintain a present feeling recent, even within the spy style, there are such a lot of methods we may reset in future seasons. It looks like we’ve completed numerous twists and turns with Chilly Warfare stuff with the KGB. The place may they go? Will we ever have an episode the place they go away Russia? They’ve worldwide jobs now, so we have talked about doing so much there, too.

As for what else viewers can count on in Ponies season 2, Iserson hints at “extra kissing” and questions what Bea will do when she learns that her husband, Chris Grant (Louis Boyer) continues to be alive. Fogel discusses an enlargement of “sophisticated loyalties” and “empowerment.”

Susanna Fogel: Extra intrigue and extra sophisticated loyalties. We have woven as tangled an internet as we will, and now we wish to simply preserve tangling it and making it extra sophisticated. We requested the query in a quite simple means initially. These ladies are on a mission that’s, on the floor, about their husbands and this thriller, however in the end it is about empowerment and discovering themselves and discovering their skill to connect with one other particular person whom they’ll study from. However then that will get turned again and again and over all through the season, and we simply wish to carry on turning it.

Whereas Chris is now confirmed to be alive, Iserson reveals that Twila’s husband, Tom Hasbeck (John Macmillan), “is lifeless. I wish to reveal that to Collider. Tom is basically lifeless.”

Each Bea and Twila consider their husbands died and discovering the reality behind their deaths was a driving pressure behind their determination to work undercover for the CIA. Twila was additionally instructed that Tom was the KGB’s mole, however now she and Bea know that it was really Chris.

These are among the many a number of game-changing revelations from the finale that Bea and Twila must grapple with in a possible season 2, though they are going to first want to determine a solution to survive and escape Andrei and the KGB. Regardless of these life-or-death stakes, they are going to seemingly nonetheless make time for extra romance in season 2 primarily based on Iserson’s comment about extra kissing.

With it solely being lower than every week since Ponies debuted on Peacock, it’s too quickly to know if the present will likely be renewed. Being in second place on the platform’s streaming charts, solely behind the U.S. model of the truth present The Traitors, bodes properly for a renewal, although.

Given the “Licensed Recent” 95% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, Ponies‘ opinions have additionally been stellar. That is practically on par with Sluggish Horses at 97%, and the Apple TV sequence has launched 5 seasons and is confirmed for a sixth one as properly.