On May 9, 2024, the German YA romance series Maxton Hall was released, and it took those with an Amazon Prime subscription by storm. The show became wickedly successful and one of Prime Video’s best series. So, it’s unsurprising that it got renewed. However, what is surprising is that the renewal was announced on May 17, 2024, eight days after the premiere. While that’s by no means unprecedented, it is always shocking, and now the show’s producer got real about why this quick green light made things both “extremely challenging” and “exciting” for them.
Season 2 of Maxton Hall, which is called The World Between Us, is slated to premiere on the 2025 TV schedule on November 7. That means it will premiere about a year and a half after Season 1, which in the streaming landscape is on the quicker end of average. We can thank the swift renewal for helping make that possible. However, it’s also worth noting the challenges that come with a fast greenlight, as co-producer and head writer Ceylan Yildirim told TV Insider:
We had to develop the concept and the scripts and get everything production-related up and running in a fraction of the time we had for Season 1. It was crazy and extremely challenging, but also a very exciting process.
While knowing your show won’t get canceled is always good news, the pressure of having to turn around and start working on what’s next is scary. The German book-to-screen adaptation of Mona Kasten’s trilogy had to immediately figure out what to do next and how to do it, and that must have been overwhelming, especially as the success of Season 1 was still being celebrated.
Plus, they likely had a ton of time to figure things out and develop everything for Season 1. This time, as we dive into what happens after the death of James' mom, the team crafting this story was likely working under stricter deadlines and a significantly tighter timeline. That makes things “extremely challenging,” because it’s probably harder to create a product that’s just as good, if not better, with less time.
However, it’s not impossible; network shows are always cranking out a new season year after year.
In the world of streaming, though, it feels like we’re normally waiting about two years for new shows – hits like House of the Dragon, The Last of Us and The Summer I Turned Pretty all took that long between seasons, for example. And sometimes, it takes even longer. Severance had a three-year gap, for instance, and by the time Stranger Things Season 5 comes out, over three years will have passed since Season 4’s debut. So, when it takes a streaming project under two years to come out, it feels miraculous.
Therefore, getting Maxton Hall – The World Between Us a year and a half after Season 1 is very exciting and a bit surprising, since I’m trained to wait two full years. With that in mind, I also get why making this season was both “extremely challenging” and “exciting.” The pressure was literally on, and the clock was literally ticking – working in that kind of environment is for sure equal parts exhilarating and stressful.
I’m sure they’ll rise to the challenge of this quicker process, though. That’s because Amazon said Season 2 will be “worth” the wait, and the series has already been renewed for Season 3. So, yeah, I cannot wait to see Ruby and James’ incredibly dramatic and romantic story continue on November 7.
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