With Countdown, Prime Video has given us one other crew (job drive) of regulation enforcement officers to look at monitor down unhealthy guys. The sequence, created by Derek Haas and starring Jensen Ackles and Eric Dane, follows a job drive made up of detectives and brokers, introduced collectively to analyze a serious risk to Los Angeles. It clearly sounds prefer it may final for a number of seasons. Nonetheless, sadly, that won’t be the case.
Countdown has been canceled after one season, Deadline studies, citing whole international viewership. Which means the sequence ended on a main cliffhanger, with Oliveras (Jessica Camacho) having been kidnapped by the sniper the crew was after. He then ordered her to run throughout a subject whereas he aimed his gun.
Earlier than, we check out all the things we learn about what Countdown Season 2 may have regarded like.
Who’s within the Countdown forged?
The forged is led by Jensen Ackles (Meachum), Eric Dane (Blythe), and Jessica Camacho (Oliveras). The sequence additionally stars Violett Beane (Shepherd), Elliot Knight (Bell), and Uli Latukefu (Finau). It’s unknown if Camacho would have returned for a full second season; it might have trusted whether or not or not Oliveras survived.
Countdown is created by showrunner and govt producer Derek Haas and produced by Amazon MGM Studios.
What’s Countdown about?
In Season 1, when an officer with the Division of Homeland Safety is murdered in broad daylight, LAPD detective Mark Meachum is recruited to a secret job drive, alongside undercover brokers from all branches of regulation enforcement, to analyze. However the hunt for the killer quickly uncovers a plot way more sinister than anybody may have imagined, kicking off a race towards time to save lots of a metropolis of thousands and thousands.
What would Countdown Season 2 have been about?
First, it might have needed to resolve that main cliffhanger and reveal if Oliveras lived or died.
“He’s going to shoot her. That’s the plan. Will he? We’re going to attend and see. If the canine was a check run and we, the viewers, don’t know the top consequence to that, although we talked about it, then this isn’t good for Oliveras’ future,” creator Derek Haas advised TV Insider after the Season 1 finale.
Haas additionally shared that he wished to, like within the first, have a number of circumstances within the second season — and greater than two. “So, I don’t need to inform the viewers when this is able to wrap up as a result of I feel that was a very good shocker on [Episode] 10 and this one, I don’t suppose it’s straightforward from right here,” he stated.
As for whether or not Season 2 may have seen Meachum and Oliveras transfer previous their sluggish burn and really get collectively, “The discussions I’ve had are that, first, she’s received to outlive this. After that, I don’t know, I feel it may get tremendous scorching or it couldn’t. Is dependent upon what occurs with [her boyfriend] Julio,” the creator teased.
Additionally wanting forward, Haas had deliberate to see extra of Blythe’s household and herald Meachum’s ex-fiancée Melinda Bates and presumably her sister as effectively.
Jensen Ackles anticipated to see “Meachum sort of simply lose his s**t and go a bit ballistic, which I feel will then presumably show to not simply Amber, but additionally to him, how he holds her,” after that cliffhanger. (Watch the total video interview with him about his hopes for Season 2 right here.)
