Firefly Lane season 2 spoilers follow. Netflix's Firefly Lane – an adaptation of the book of the same name by Kristin Hannah, starring TV royalty Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke – is back for season two, but this new chapter will unfortunately be the last we'll see of life-long besties Kate and Tully because the show is officially ending.
Episode 2 of Firefly Lane season 2 starts with a flashback of Cloud banging the door on a house as it rains heavily. She is carrying infant Tallulah in her arms and desperate, screaming for someone to let her in. A maid opens the house and tells her that the homeowners are not in. She apologizes and closes the door on Cloud.In 2021, when the first season of the Netflix original Firefly Lane debuted, viewers were captivated by the friendship between two best friends, Tully and Kate, spanning 30 years. Katherine Heigl of Grey’s Anatomy and Sarah Chalke of Scrubs leave the medical field behind to play the starring parts in this bestie drama. According to Netflix, 49 million customers streamed the show in the first month following its release, so it should really come as no surprise that we’re here to talk about season 2. Firefly Lane maintains a mix between heart-warming and hearts devastating as the show portrays Tully and Kate’s accomplishments and turmoil with their lives so linked. So, here’s all we know about the Firefly Lane season 2 release date. Also read: What We Do In The Shadows Season 4 Episode 1- Vamps are Reunited We estimate that the second season of Firefly Lane will launch between the middle and end of 2022, based on production plans as of the time of the previous publication. Obviously, assuming production does not cease. Netflix has officially announced that Firefly Lane will return for a second season, after a few months’ delay. Katherine Heigel and Sarah Chalke answered questions from fans and shared the news on their social media sites and YouTube channels. According to Netflix Life, production on Firefly Lane will conclude in April 2022. Due to the lack of considerable computer-generated imagery, the post-production process should be swift. Three to five months is the normal post-production period for a Netflix series like this one. This suggests that the second season of Firefly Lane will likely launch between late summer and the fall of 2022, providing all goes according to plan. Heigl was unable to confirm the release date when she was questioned, instead tweeting, “No, but it will be in 2022.” Also read: Only Murders In The Building Season 2 Episode 4 Release Date, Time and Cast New Cast Members for Firefly Lane Season 2 Late in September 2021, Netflix confirmed (via Deadline) four additional cast members. Ignacio Serricchio, the Argentine actor who will portray Don West in Lost in Space in December 2021, has joined the cast of Firefly Lane as Danny Diaz. Danny is described as an egotistical sportscaster who has been turned into a report and forms a friendship with Tully. Greg Germann, known for his role on Grey’s Anatomy, will play Benedict Binswanger, a member of a powerful logging family in season 2. Charlotte will be played by India de Beaufort, who debuted in Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist and will also appear in Slumberland on Netflix. This character is a shy wannabe journalist with a crush on Johnny Ryan. In season 2, Jolene Purdy will portray Justine Jordan, an enthusiastic talent agent with a penchant for maintaining a good attitude. Purdy is well known for her roles in The White Lotus and WandaVision. Kyra Leroux as Lisa-Karen, Seth Isaac Johnson as Eugene, Aiden Howard as Brad, Craig March as Stan, and Remy Marthaller as Young Marah also appear in season 2. Also read: KinnPorsche The Series Season 2; The Stunning Cast, Release Date, and Much More How many episodes will there be? Season one consisted of 10 hour-long episodes, but so far, Netflix hasn’t confirmed an episode count for season two. Fans of Firefly Lane may already know this, but there is no season 3 planned for the show. The supersized season 2 was always meant to be the end of the series, and no, Netflix did not prematurely
Marie Claire newsletter Celebrity news, beauty, fashion advice, and fascinating features, delivered straight to your inbox! Thank you for signing up to Marie Claire. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. In most soapy, emotional, roller-coaster-y TV shows—think Virgin River, This Is Us, etc.—the tumultuous relationship at the core of the series is a romantic one. We spend episode after episode watching two people fall in love, be driven apart, and find their way back to each other against all odds—with that cycle often repeating multiple times throughout each season. It's incredibly refreshing, then, to see Netflix's heartwarming drama, Firefly Lane, put a gentle twist on this genre by focusing instead on the just as tumultuous relationship (opens in new tab) between two best friends (opens in new tab) across more than 30 series stars Katherine Heigl and Sarah Chalke as the adult versions of Tully and Kate, respectively, who have been inseparable since they became neighbors on the titular Firefly Lane in eighth grade. The first season's 10 episodes span the ensuing decades, jumping around from the early days of their friendship in the 1970s, to their college years during the 1980s, to their midlife crises in the early 2000s. It's an ode to the power and resiliency of female friendship, yes, but it's also just incredibly addictive TV—good luck not speeding through all 10 hours in one sitting!Of course, with those midlife crises come even more drama, and though the first season of Firefly Lane seems at first to be ending with Tully and Kate having rebuilt their friendship to be stronger than ever, that illusion is shattered in a cryptic confrontation in the last few seconds of the finale Firefly Lane been renewed for a second season?Yes! On May 26, 2021, Netflix announced the season 2 renewal of Firefly Lane via a video by the show's stars:"We can't wait to continue on this journey of Tully and Kate with all of you," said Sarah Chalke. Given the success of the show's first season, a second season was practically a given: According to Netflix, Firefly Lane pulled in 49 million worldwide viewers in just its first 28 days. Not to mention, the book the first season is based on has a sequel, Fly Away, meaning there's plenty more content to mine for the second season of the show and beyond. (opens in new tab) 'Firefly Lane: A Novel' by Kristin Hannah When could season two be released?Of course, production schedules will depend on COVID protocols, the actors' schedules, and how quickly the show's writers can churn out another batch of scripts—but it's possible that a second season of Firefly Lane could arrive about a year after the first. Netflix has a habit of putting out second seasons on the one- or two-year anniversary of the first season dropping (think You and The Haunting of Hill House).The show received its initial series order in February 2019, started casting over the summer, and filmed between September 2019 and January 2020. So, with the cast already in place and the writers probably already planning out the next season's storylines, it wouldn't be surprising if the cast and crew are able to churn out 10 more hours within the next year, just in time for an early 2022 debut. If all moves promptly, we could expect a season two in February of photos showed that the show began filming in October of 2021. In November, Katherine Heigl wrote on Instagram: "So I am in the wonderful city of Vancouver busy filming the second season of #FireflyLane Yay! Look out for it coming your way on @netflix in 2022!"What could season two of Firefly Lane be about?(Image credit: COURTESY OF NETFLIX)Right off the bat, we'll need the new episodes to answer all of the many (many) unresolved questions that were left hanging at the end of season one. To name a few: Is Johnny dead? Will Tully and Kate start a new show? And, most importantly, what caused Kate and Tully's dust-up at Bud's funeral? (Heigl's take (opens in new tab) on the latter, for the record: "It can't be that Tully sleeps with Johnny. I don't think that any friendship can come back from that. I'll fight to the death that it not be that.")(Image credit: COURTESY OF NETFLIX)A good chunk of Hannah's Firefly Lane novel was left out of season one of the onscreen adaptation, so a second season will likely focus on furthering the storylines of season one. Easily the most significant of the missing plot points is the death of a very important character, which dominates the end of Hannah's novel, then drives the plot of the entire sequel, Fly it's anyone's guess whether a second season will stick to material from the book or its sequel, or deviate entirely. Showrunner Maggie Friedman said (opens in new tab) to EW: "One of the things I think that's been fun is that we have kept some big moments from the book and been very true to those, and then there are other things that we've done that are different." She added of plotlines in a potential season two: "They're only in eighth grade when we leave them. They'll have a lot of good teen years and fun '70s growing-up times with the great music and the fashions and all of the cultural changes. I think it's just really interesting."Friedman did, however, suggest that Cloud would have a bigger role in season two—which tracks with the plot of Fly Away, in which Cloud becomes a main character. "I'd love to keep telling us that those stories and those actors are so good, so of course, I would want to keep seeing them and Beau [Garrett], who plays Cloud, is so great," she noted in her EW September, Netflix announced several new cast members for the show's second season: India de Beaufort, Greg Germann, Jolene Purdy, and Ignacio Serricchio. According to Collider, de Beaufort "will play Charlotte, who is a journalist in 1985 Seattle." Germann, per Collider, "has been cast as Benedict Binswanger, a wealthy young man who decides to run for Governor of Washington State in the '80s." Purdy will play "an upbeat talent agent who is someone everybody wants in their corner," and Serricchio will star as "an arrogant sportscaster turned reporter who serves as a potential love interest to Heigl's Tully."What have the cast and crew said about season two?The actress who plays Tully's younger self, Ali Skovbye, agrees with Friedman. When asked about the plot for a potential season two, she told Collider (opens in new tab): "I would love a true 1970s house party. That's my dream." As for Roan Curtis, who plays young Kate: "I want Kate to have a love story. I just think it'd be so cute and so cool if Kate had like a little awkward first encounter, a first date type feel with a boy and first relationship, and then Tully can kind of help her through and all that."As for whether Johnny will show up in season two? Ben Lawson, the actor who plays him, told Hollywood Life: (opens in new tab) "If they were to follow the story of the book, then you know Johnny’s going to live to fight another day. But then they’ve deviated from the book a little bit so far, so I don’t know what they’ve got planned." He added of Tully and Kate's falling out: "It’s such a strong female show, I don’t think anyone wants to see the male rip the friends apart. So I think that it’s going to be something to do with Marah."(Image credit: COURTESY OF NETFLIX)Heigl is more than ready to step back into Tully's shoes for at least another season or two—and her opinion definitely holds plenty of sway at Netflix, due to her star status and executive producer credit on Firefly Lane. She told (opens in new tab) the Washington Post that she has her "fingers, toes, everything crossed" that the series ends up getting at least three agrees. "I'd love to keep telling those stories, and those actors are so good so, of course, I would want to keep seeing them."watch 'Firefly Lane' on Netflix (opens in new tab) Andrea Park is a Chicago-based writer and reporter with a near-encyclopedic knowledge of the extended Kardashian-Jenner kingdom, early 2000s rom-coms and celebrity book club selections. She graduated from the Columbia School of Journalism in 2017 and has also written for W, Brides, Glamour, Women's Health, People and more.Stream It Or Skip It: ‘Firefly Lane’ Season 2 on Netflix, In Which We Are Still Desperate To Know Why Kate And Tully Are Fighting. When the first season of Netflix’s Firefly Lane ended, best