Will There Be a ‘Last Seen’ Season 2? Details About What Could Happen Next

On the one hand, Last Seen‘s six episodes do tell a somewhat complete story — Ian (Patrick Brammall) gets answers about his missing daughter Maggie, now Sarah (Chloe Jean Lourdes) after she grew up with the man who kidnapped her, Henry (Brendan Cowell), and his wife Jenna (Maxine Peake), and she is back home. But on the other hand, it is left open-ended, with Ian and Sarah’s relationship far from the father-daughter one he’d hoped to get back all these years, and there’s a lot to unpack for the teen going forward as she grapples with her parents Henry and Jenna’s deaths, the life she lost out on all these years after she was taken, and being back with her family.

So, will we see that? The cast and executive producer/writer Kris Mrksa seem game to continue the series, which hasn’t been renewed for a second season.

Brammall tells TV Insider he “definitely” thinks there could be more to this story onscreen. “Look, if Idris Elba can be taken hostage on a second thing, then surely I could lose another child,” he says before getting serious. “I have no idea. I don’t know what a second season would look like. I’m happy to talk about it. But that was never — I feel like this story is an incredible arc and ends, even though it’s very much a punctuation point, even though it’s not the one that maybe you have expected,  The story’s very well told, I think. Having said that, Apple’s got my number. I’m very happy to talk.”

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Mrksa can’t answer if there will be a Season 2 but does share, “The reality is we are talking about it and about what we might do.” It’s still “very early days.”

He does the avenues that could be explored if there is. “Straight away, it seems to me that there is still a whole lot of territory in that relationship between Ian and Sarah that would be worth exploring. … That relationship would have to be the focus of anything we do moving forward because it is still so filled with difficulties and complexities, and there is so much scar tissue to be worked out or repaired. I think there would be something very interesting in that, and for me, there are more questions about those relationships, those parent-child relationships in these extreme and difficult circumstances, which could still give some sort of very universal answers, if you like, for all of us,” he says. “Obviously, if we do a Season 2, it’s going to be a thrilling ride again with lots of twists and turns and exciting stuff. But I think that the heart of it would have to be that relationship and exploring the difficulties that they face in trying to repair that.”

After all, while Sarah ends up back with her mother Deb (Jessica Wren) and brother Dean (Tobias Muhafidin) in the end, she did choose to leave with Henry, but he died in the standoff with the police. Ian, however, doesn’t seem to have any relationship with Sarah (her choice), and how that will play out is very much up in the air.

The consensus does seem to be that it would have to focus on Sarah and her healing and moving forward. As Peake points out, “Everyone forgets about Sarah. Everybody forgets about the legacy this young woman is — You want to see, where’s the next series of Sarah, Mags, her life. How do you heal and move forward from that when you’ve had this? Everyone else has been so self-interested. And Jenna to a point. The scales start to fall, but all these adults as usual have been so full of self-interest and not thought about the impact on this young life.”

Lourdes is game for doing that, though she does find the “full story” with “a very clear start and end” of these six episodes to be “very cathartic because it’s so human. There is still pain, there is still grief because everyone loses something.”

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Should there be a Last Seen Season 2, Lourdes would want to dive into “the embodiment of trauma,” explaining, “It’s not something that dissipates and it’s not a feeling, it’s an experience. And I don’t think grief is something that you ever let go of. I think you learn to grow around it, but it would be interesting to see how that grief shapes how she grows and her childhood being so observant about nature and the world around her and almost being a fly on the wall to a life that’s very uninterrupted by humans and society. It would be interesting to see how that influences her persona as an adult being raised amongst the quiet and being used to observing people.”

She continues, “I think there would be an anxiety there being around so many people, there’s so much to take in, but I think that it would be really wonderful to watch how she builds her relationships with Deb and Dean and Ian and starting school for the first time. That would be so fascinating to watch how her and Tommy grow together, hopefully. He’s the one person that met Henry before everything went down. And even though it wasn’t a pleasant interaction, he’s the only one that kind of semi-understands who he was like to interact with and maybe a deeper energy beyond the anger that Henry was feeling in the moment. He has a presence about him, and so being able to reminisce and share that with somebody, I think Tommy would be the safest space to do.”

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