The problem: you watched all six episodes of Netflix’s new spy thriller Black Doves, and now you’re at a complete loss as to what to do with yourself. Choices include: a) waiting around for someone to recruit you as a spy, b) harassing all your friends and family members about why they haven’t stopped everything to watch this show, and c) figuring out as much as you can about Black Doves Season 2, because it cannot come fast enough. Can’t help you with A, and fully support you in B, but let’s get into option C.
SPOILERS AHEAD!
Has Black Doves Season 2 Been Green-lit?
Yes! In fact, Netflix was so confident in the show’s success that they announced the second season before the first season had even premiered.
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Black Doves creator Joe Barton told told Radio Times that having a show immediately renewed has “never happened” to him before, joking “Most things I work on get cancelled almost instantly. So, I was all prepared to have a really nervous Christmas this year.”
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When Will Black Doves Season 2 Drop?
Filming on season one began in October 2023, and the series hit Netflix just over a year later. But production on Season 2 hasn’t started just yet. In fact, Barton is still writing it. He told Variety, “We’re still early in the process. I’m writing the first episode still, and we’re kind of feeling our way through it.”
He also noted that Black Doves might not be set at Christmas if it doesn’t drop in December, explaining “It’s all about when it would be released. It doesn’t need to be constrained by the Christmas holiday. So it might be that there’s a different [holiday]–Easter maybe?”
Who Is in the Cast?
Happily, none of the main players died this season, so it seems likely that the core cast will return. That potentially includes:
Keira Knightley / Helen
Ben Whishaw / Sam
Sarah Lancashire / Mrs Reed
Andrew Buchan / Wallace
Omari Douglas / Michael
Ella Lily Hyland / Williams
Gabrielle Creevy / Eleanor
Isabella Wei / Kai-Ming
Luther Ford / Hector Newman
Kathryn Hunter / Lenny Lines
What Will Black Doves Season 2 Be About?
We’ll Find Out More About Helen’s Backstory
Micheal and Sam Are Over
“Michael isn’t even an option, so it’s kind of over,” Barton explained to Tudum. “Sam knows when he goes back to Michael’s flat that it’s impossible [to be with Michael], but he can’t say it, so they have a little dance.”
We Haven’t Seen the Last of Eleanor, Williams, and Kai-Ming
“You could definitely see them forming a little group,” Barton teased. “Kai-Ming would have to stop being a heroin addict party girl, probably. Maybe they could start their own little assassin agency working out of their canal boat. I’d like to see that.”
Things Are Going to Get More Dangerous for Helen
Barton says he wants to see Helen “getting pulled deeper into the world of spies having been so close to leaving.” Plus, Wallace potentially becoming Prime Minister “increases the pressure and the danger on her as a spy. Just seeing the tension of that, seeing Sam back in London … I would like to see more Eleanor and Williams, Kai-Ming, all those people. I’d like to start to throw them up against one another again, and maybe make things more dangerous and challenging for them.”
Let’s also not forget that Helen and Wallace’s nanny was revealed to be working for the Black Doves—so that’ll presumably factor into season 2!
