Will There Be a ‘Happy Face’ Season 2?

[WARNING: This post contains MAJOR spoilers from Season 1 of Happy Face.]

Season 1 of Paramount+‘s Happy Face concluded with the finale on Thursday, May 1. The show told the story of Melissa Moore (known as Melissa Reed in the show), whose father is convicted serial killer Keith Jesperson, and was adapted from her 2018 podcast of the same name.

Happy Face stars Annaleigh Ashford as Melissa and Dennis Quaid as Keith, the Happy Face killer (who’s currently serving a life sentence in prison without parole). But will there be more story to tell in a Season 2 after that unexpected finale cliffhanger? Scroll down for everything we know.

Will there be a Season 2 of Happy Face?

No, so far there are no plans announced for a Season 2 of the show. The Season 1 finale was expected to wrap up Moore’s story, with a logline for the episode confirming: “Melissa solves the case.” (The series featured Melissa investigating whether her father was the person who committed an additional murder, which another man had gone to prison for.)

The show managed to leave viewers with a bit of a cliffhanger, though. Melissa’s husband, Ben (James Wolk), had second thoughts about asking a prison guard to take a hit out on Keith. It didn’t end up mattering since Keith had a heart attack before getting shanked anyway, and Ben never told Melissa what he had done. Keith ended up surviving, and called up Ben with a threat: “I know what you did, or what you tried to do. You couldn’t even get that right, could you, Benny boy? Did you really think that it wouldn’t get back to me? Did you really think that I wouldn’t find out?”

So, this could set up a potential Season 2, with Keith still embroiled in Melissa’s life even after she walked out of his hospital room. Plus, showrunner Jennifer Cacicio told Us Weekly, “[The real] Melissa’s been like, ‘Oh, if we get a season 2, I have so many stories for you. There’s definitely more to explore with these characters and these stories and the true crime world.'” Quaid also pointed out that the real Keith has always claimed that he killed more than just the eight victims he went to jail for. “Whether he is doing that for attention — which probably is the case — that remains to be seen,” he added. “But there’s more to explore here.

It’s also worth noting that Moore’s Happy Face podcast did have a second season. While she told her own story in Season 1 of the podcast, the second season was about another woman who had to come to terms with being the child of a convicted murderer.

“In 1984, Diane Downs was convicted for the murder of her daughter and attempted murder of her other son and daughter. Shortly before her admission to prison, she gave birth to a girl. Now that daughter, Becky Babcock, begins the journey to accept the connection to who her biological mother is, and what that means for her life going forward,” a synopsis for Season 2 of the podcast says.

On the show, Melissa’s story ended with her getting a promotion at work to have her own talk show segment. So, it’s certainly possible that Happy Face could return for Season 2 and focus on Melissa exploring Babcock’s story.

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How many episodes of Happy Face are there?

Season 1 has eight total episodes. The series premiered on March 20 with its first two episodes, then dropped a new episode every Thursday until the May 1 finale.

Happy Face, Streaming Now, Paramount+