His & Hers Producer Teases What a Season 2 Could Explore

His & Hers seems to have done well on Netflix. What could a potential second season be about? Photo: Netflix

After amassing a staggering 49.4 million views on Netflix in the first two weeks of release, His & Hers is ripe for a second season. The murder-mystery show, starring Tessa Thompson and Jon Bernthal, was initially conceived as a limited series, but its popularity may well lead to more episodes in the future.

Executive producer William Oldroyd played coy when the subject of His & Hers season 2 came up recently, saying, “You have to ask Netflix” whether it’ll happen, but he did discuss how the show’s story might continue beyond its shocking finale.

Adapted from Alice Feeney’s popular 2020 novel of the same name, His & Hers focused on a murder investigation in a small Georgia town, as Bernthal’s Detective Jack Harper and his estranged wife Anna Andrews (Thompson) tried to get to the bottom of who was responsible for the killing of several local women. After discovering that they were all involved in a horrifying incident from Anna’s past, the final episode revealed that Anna’s mother, Alice, was the vengeful murderer, having found evidence of the past crimes against her daughter on an old videotape.

So, will Anna tell Jack that Alice was the killer all along? Oldroyd suspects not, telling TV Insider that Jack wouldn’t be happy. “I don’t think Anna’s ever going to tell Jack because it would totally destroy his relationship with Alice, right?”

Oldroyd seems keen to discuss season 2 with his team, mulling the possibility of either joining the story from where we left off or jumping forward in time to explore the fallout of the reveal on Anna and Alice’s relationship.

“The question I have is, ‘Where do you pick it up from? Do you pick it up straight from where you’ve just left off? What does she do with this information? Or do we just move on?’ For me, it’s like, ‘Do you want to see what she does with that information, or do you want to just start from a position which is further down the line and she’s sitting with it, and it’s still there, and she knows the truth, see how it plays out with her relationship with her mother after that?’”

The producer, who also directed and wrote several episodes of the hit streaming series, said they definitely didn’t think beyond its first season when working on it, but admitted they’ve created some great characters and that the audience is “really responding” to the show.

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If Netflix decides to pursue more His & Hers, we’ll let you know!