Spoilers for Netflix’s Sweet Magnolias season 1 below.
The Carolinas are king this summer, with shows based in the two states recently topping the Netflix charts. It started with teen drama Outer Banks, and then came the small-town romance Sweet Magnolias. Based on a series of books by Sherryl Woods, it promises Southern comfort in the form of a trio of middle-aged women (JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Brooke Elliott, and Heather Headley). The best friends since childhood endure separate but overlapping conflicts—divorce, moody children, and the promise of new love—as they build a budding spa business from the bones of an old South Carolina landmark.
Sweet Magnolias has a feel-good Gilmore Girls vibe, quaint and heartwarming, with a first season that meanders through touching but predictable family drama—that is, until we reach the finale. As Maddie (Swisher) watches her ex (Chris Klein) beg her to take him back, the couple receive a phone call: Their son Kyle (Logan Allen) was in a car crash. The paramedics drag him out alive, but there’s someone else in the passenger seat. The season ends before we find out who.
With such an obvious cliffhanger leaving us hungry for more, next season is sure to be thrilling—and finally, it’s been confirmed that Sweet Magnolias will return to Netflix. Here’s what we know so far.
Sweet Magnolias has been renewed for a second season.
Netflix announced on July 23 that Sweet Magnolias had been renewed. Cast and crew members immediately took to Twitter to celebrate the news.
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When asked what she predicts might happen in season 2, Swisher told ELLE.com, “[Maddie’s] got a long way to go…She’s got a lot of work to do. She’s got to figure it out.” She later added, “I don’t think [showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson] is going to shy away from doing something really intense.”
Anneliese Judge, who plays Annie Sullivan, daughter of Dana Sue (Elliott), told ABC 11 she sees many directions where the show can go. “The opportunities, I feel like, are endless,” she says, “and I’m so excited to chase those and see where Sweet Magnolias takes me.”
A release date has yet to be announced.
Although a return to Serenity is imminent, it’s unclear exactly when that will be. Due to COVID-19 stalling production across the country, Netflix might struggle to get the Sweet Magnolias back to Georgia by the end of the year. We can’t know for sure, but we anticipate Swisher, Headley and Elliott would be back on our screens by late 2021.
There’s plenty more material for the show to draw on.
Woods, the author behind the original books, confirmed on Twitter that most of the material for season 1 comes from the first three books in the series. But she’d love to see the other books get their time to shine.
She told ELLE.com, “Longer term—because I’d like to believe it’s going to go longer, even longer-term than season 2—one of the things the books do is introduce a lot of characters who bring in other issues. Maddie, Helen, and Dana Sue can’t have every issue known to every woman in the country. Their lives would be a mess if that happened. So I would like to see some character arcs where we explore other things women can relate to.”
Since there are 11 books in total, there’s no shortage of material for the writers to weave in. But if you can’t wait to see where the show goes next, you can always dive straight into the novels for a potential sneak peek.
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