11 Major Things To Expect From Fortitude Season 2
How in frozen Hell do you trump demonic prehistoric wasps?
How exactly are you supposed to carry on after anything as grim as Fortitude's season one finale? In fact, how do you continue after a first season that killed headline actors more than Game Of Thrones?
Having already seen similarly popular drama Broadchurch return for a second season and taking up a story that might traditionally have been classed as finished, fans of great TV get to go back to the frozen tundra of Fortitude. That show proved that there isn't always a need to go full True Detective and start again from scratch, but it does pose some fairly pertinent questions for where the band of survivors go next.
It seems likely that the show will continue to blend the real with the supernatural: there are even some suggestions that they boat will be pushed out even further in that respect. But there is a an opportunity to explore the events of the first season in more human terms, and while a shift backwards in gear might annoy some fans of the show's biggest WTF moments, it did actually work for Broadchurch.
Whichever way you want the show to go, there are some indications - from officially teased information and reasonable assumption/speculation - of what direction the second season might be heading in. And with the first season available to buy on DVD and Blu-ray now, now's the perfect time to look forward...
11. It's Going To Pick Up Directly
Despite suggestions that the second season of the show would basically rip up and start again with an entirely new cast of characters like True Blood, with the setting or the aura of the place being the continued selling point.
But then, by bringing in such a bonkers climax and the revelation of the evil wasps (all wasps are evil, these ones are just SUPER evil), the show tantalising posed a lot of hangover questions that remain intriguing. How do you survive such an event? Is Liam alright? Is Elena dead?
Surely having wasp babies inside you (which somehow navigate from blood stream to stomach, cleverly) is going to leave lasting scars?
As Simon Donald said, it's all about what comes next:
"The astonishingly fruitful world that’s available to us as a consequence of what we did in that little town from the first episode is a lot more interesting than going 'reboot and start again' – that’s a terrible idea!"