Beyond showrunner Adam Nussdorf has admitted the series wasn’t designed with the expectation that the first season would be binge-released, however, he believes the sci-fi drama has the right formula to keep viewers engaged, per Blastr:
No, we didn’t know that [Freeform would binge-drop all the episodes]. Certainly some episodes are more mythology driven, and then we’ll take a break and one will be purely about Holden asking someone out on a date. It’s a constant balance, even deciding when to dole out pieces of mythology. We are both conscious of not withholding from the audience. When you know a creator has all the answers and they save all the answers to the ninth episode, and you sense that, then you ask why am I watching one through eight? But at the same time, mystery is such a beautiful thing in storytelling, so it’s finding the balance of just giving them enough to follow but still holding onto the great reveal.
With confirmation that the binge-release wasn’t anywhere in the show’s original DNA, has Freeform made a mistake in dropping all the episodes at once, or will the Netflix-esque approach catch fire for a Season 2 renewal? Stay tuned…
Nicole says
I Binged and would watch a second season but fear the wait. I hope it ketches on. Thank you for an engaging, energetic, out of the mind look on the afterlife, thank you for a good supernatural show that was different and not the dragged on vampires, warewolf, witchcraft that’s typically on the screens these day.