Fans have truly been crying out for the Society to return ever since it was cruelly cancelled after the first season, and our wishes may actually get answered soon. The hit series premiered on Netflix in May, 2019, and starred Kathryn Newton, Gideon Adlon, Olivia DeJonge, Toby Wallace and Jacques Colimon. It followed teenagers who were displaced from their hometown while on a school trip – they somehow ended up in an identical version, without any adult supervision.
The gang were forced to take things into their own hands and created their own community, but things quickly got out of hand and spiraled into a Lord of the Flies-style situation with an almighty cliffhanger. Viewers watched in their droves and TV bosses initially renewed the program for a second season, but it was eventually canceled due to the global pandemic , leading to huge backlash. Five years on, the calls for more episodes have not quietened , leaving creator Christopher Keyser touched by the huge response – teasing that those behind the camera are always trying to come up with ways to move the story on.
At one point, he revealed that fans were almost close to getting new episodes in the form of a graphic novel before the publishing company went bust. ‘This wasn’t a normal cancellation. This wasn’t about not having the audience or we didn’t believe in it anymore.
There was a global crisis that changed all of our lives in the one year we were able to make it,’ he told Variety in a recent inter.