‘Everyone Is Doing Great’: Stephen Colletti Reveals Where Seth & Jeremy Stand in Season 2 (VIDEO)

Stephen Colletti and James Lafferty are back for Season 2 of Everyone Is Doing Great, which drops on Netflix May 11 after the cast independently filmed it back in 2023.

“It’s been such a journey to get to this point,” Colletti, who co-wrote the series with Lafferty, tells TV Insider. “We felt like we were getting our show out there a little bit, it was a tough time in the industry. Not a lot was being picked up. People were really battling out there to get their stuff seen or greenlit. And we’re sitting here with a show that’s already shot because we had done it independently.”

The show’s first season aired on Hulu in 2021, but Colletti and Lafferty ended up partnering with Sony, who brought the series to Netflix for its next installment. “That is the biggest dream for us,” Colletti admits. WARNING: Spoilers for Everyone Is Doing Great Season 1 below.

Colletti and Lafferty play Seth and Jeremy in Everyone Is Doing Great. Their characters are best friends and actors who previously worked on a hit vampire show together, but are struggling to find their place in the entertainment industry five years after the series finale. While Seth is out hustling at auditions, Jeremy, who’s married to their other former costar Andrea (his real-life wife Alexandra Park), doesn’t have the motivation to keep at it.

When Andrea files for divorce, Jeremy turns to Seth, who’s willing to help support him, until Jeremy’s lack of ambition begins to take a toll. The guys have a falling out, but reconcile when Jeremy shows up to watch Seth on opening night of his play (a gig he reluctantly booked). Just as they’re getting back on the right path, though, Jeremy gets caught doing drugs in the bathroom by an undercover cop.

In the video above, Colletti opens up about Everyone’s Doing Great Season 2, including what’s next for Seth and Jeremy. Plus, below, Lafferty, Park, and Cariba Heine also weigh in.

Jeremy finds himself in some trouble at the end of Season 1. How will that take a toll on his friendship with Seth in Season 2?

Stephen Colletti: You’ll see how their friendship is evolving as they’re trying to figure out their own stuff. You see a lot of them trying to lean on each other as they figure out their business in Season 1, but now there’s an understanding of … I don’t want to hurt another person, and I have a lot I need to work through. You’re going to see some of that and how they’re focusing on what they need to focus on and trying not to get in each other’s way, but also they have their relationships. Jeremy’s dealing with the divorce, and Seth is trying to make a relationship [with Sarah (Karissa Lee Staples)] work. So a lot occurs right from the jump. You’re going to see what happened with Jeremy after that cliffhanger from Season 1 and how he’s had to change his life a little bit.

Is Jeremy committed to getting the help he needs in Season 2?

James Lafferty: As much as Jeremy can possibly be committed to something like that, I think he’s trying. In his own way. But he still has a very long way to go. I think we’re going to learn more about him, obviously, but I think his heart is still in the same place. I always say Jeremy is a really, really loyal dog. He’s your best friend, but he never really got house-trained, so he still pees on the carpet. You love him no matter what, but he’s still going to pee on your carpet. We gotta get him house-trained. That’s the goal.

Seth seemed to get everything he wanted at the end of Season 1 – how hard is he going to have to work to stay in that place?

Colletti: That’s a great point and something we’re going to explore in Season 2. What happens when you achieve certain things you set out in life to achieve, and you get there, and you’re kind of looking around, like, am I supposed to have some sort of euphoric feeling here? Because it’s not happening. Or if it’s something you put a lot of focus and energy into, and you get there and it’s not cracked all it’s cracked up to be. How do you react in those moments? Is it something that causes you to have a little bit of a midlife crisis? Or are you making changes? There’s certain things Seth thinks he really wants, and he’s going after them in his personal and professional life, and when he gets there, he’s still left a little unfulfilled. How is he going to react to that? We are going to find that out with some things in Seth’s life right away in Season 2.

Jeremy and Andrea also made up in the Season 1 finale – do you think either of them were hoping for a romantic reconciliation in that moment?

Alexandra Park: I think, wrapping up the first season, Andrea was mostly looking forward to continuing as friends and leaving their history behind. But in the second season, like as in life, things change. Suddenly, we’re not so sure. Andrea’s got a lot going on that she didn’t see coming, and she’s leaning on Jeremy in ways that perhaps she thought she was done with leaning on him.

We do see her leaning on him possibly more than she anticipated and expected in the second season, due to the curveballs of life, and I think that’s a lovely dynamic to explore between them. Things change and you turn to the people you turn to in life when things are not going well and Jeremy’s always been that person for Andrea.

Seth and [his ex] Izzy (Cariba Heine) didn’t get as much closure in Season 1. Where do things go in their relationship in Season 2?

Cariba Heine: I think there’s some really fun stuff in the second season in terms of people being dragged back together against their will. For all four of us, there’s sort of a pull back in, and sometimes it goes well, and sometimes it doesn’t. There’s some really fun stuff in terms of the way that life unfolds and where you find yourself, where you really did not expect or even want to be.

Is Sarah actually ready to commit to Seth or will she still be pulling away?

Colletti: It’s funny that Cariba mentioned … there’s some people you can’t get rid of. They’re pulled to you like a magnet. I kind of see that in a way – while Seth is making his efforts, Sarah’s guarded. She had her rule of not dating actors; she’s been burned by them before, so you’re going to see her working through her feelings for that. You’re going to see how that unfolds in their relationship.

How does it feel to finally have this out in the world?

Lafferty: It’s fun to come back to it with fresh eyes. There’s these little moments that we wrote into the show thinking they would just be completely random and funny because they were so random, and oddly enough, they have fit the moment right now so well. For instance, there’s a mention of bingeing Euphoria. At the time, I don’t think there was a new season of Euphoria out, and we’re releasing when they’re literally releasing [it]. Another thing is Seth’s character is going to sort of play a hockey player, which we wrote in there because we thought, ‘Ha, what a random funny thing, we can put him in hockey pads.’ And all of a sudden, hockey shows are being greenlit, and everyone’s talking about hockey in the entertainment industry because of Heated Rivalry. It’s just like … how in the world did these things land like that? It’s awesome.

Park: It’s perfect. We needed those few years to arrive at this perfect, serendipitous timing of the universe.

Do you have ideas to go past Season 2?

Colletti: Yeah, we’ve got some ideas. I think you’re seeing this group of friends that, while trying to maybe go off and do their own things, they’re getting pulled back together for different reasons. They got a tie to a show they were on back in the day, they got their relationships, so you’re going to see them, for better or for worse, get pulled back together, and kind of how they’re pinging off each other. It’s going to be interesting.

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Lafferty: That’s the goal. It’s amazing that we have gotten here with Season 2 coming out on Netflix, and it feels very much like a moment and a celebration, but we are careful to remind ourselves that it is not the end of something. We’re still just at the beginning here. I think a Season 3, Season 4, Season 5 … we want to keep going. What we learned through this show is that as we live more life, the pieces fall into place for our stories and characters. So, in Season 3, those pieces have already started falling into place. We’ve got our broad strokes and outline of the season right now. I think the next step is to make sure that the world sees Season 2, and then we can get into fleshing the rest of Season 3 out and start shooting as soon as possible.

Everyone Is Doing Great, Season 2, Monday, May 11, Netflix