Zoey Extraordinary of the Playlist returns for a second season! On Thursday, NBC announced that the musical drama has been renewed. “We were overwhelmed by the number of people who fell in love with Zoey Extraordinary of the Playlist and how much joy that brought to all the world,” Lisa Katz and Tracey Pakosta, co-presidents of scripts of programming of NBC Entertainment, said in a statement. “We are thrilled to bring back and can’t wait to see how Zoey’s journey continues”.
After cheering us with the eye-popping musical numbers and choreography, the final season ends on a more somber note as Zoey says goodbye to his father, Mitch, who dies from a rare degenerative brain disease called progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP). With everything that happens in the episode (including Zoey finally choose between Max and Simon), we’re all eager to see how the story unfolds in a potential second season.
The creator Austin Winsberg previously teased there will be a jump in the time following the death of Mitch in the second season. “I think it would be hard to pick up right after the death of Mitch, because the emotion of that would be a bit too crude and do not allow us to make perhaps the entire tonal balance of the things that I like,” he said. “Some passage of time would probably be a good thing for the show.”
Winsberg, whose father died of PSP, added that Zoey’s family dynamics also change as they are going to deal with the loss of Mitch. “I think it’s a great concept and a great idea for season two, that is, how do we move? And how we live, and what makes the new normal after the person that was so important and so fundamental to our life is gone?” My mother of having to return to the real world again and have to be independent after being with the same man of about 40 years, I think that Maggie might go on a similar journey of self-exploration. I became a father just when I was losing my father, so that all feelings and emotions and complications that go along with that of David and Emily. And then Zoey, in the same way, having to make a choice about, ‘What does his death mean to me? How can I extract the meaning of his death? What kind of person I want to be now?,’ and all the struggles and challenges that accompany it. It was very apropos for the end of the image is only of them on the couch, except for the empty space where Dad always sat. You are still going to feel the weight of your absence in the future.”
