There’s been no official word from Netflix about whether or not there is going to be a season two of Sweet Magnoliasbut a tweet by showrunner Sheryl J. Anderson alluding to the fact that she is already working on the second season gives us hope. Sweet Magnolias follow the best friends Maddie Townsend (JoAnna Garcia Swisher), Dana Sue Sullivan (Brooke Elliott), and Helen Decatur (Heather Headley) through the ups and downs of divorce, starting a business, and trying to raise a family in the small town of Serenity.
When we last see Maddie, her ex-husband, Bill (Chris Klein), Dana Sue and Helen are all huddling together in the aftermath of a car accident on the night of graduation, which resulted in the injury of Maddie’s son Kyle (Logan Allen) and an unknown passenger. Before the accident, Kyle had come out of a prom afterparty due to a discussion with his brother Tyler (Carson Rowland) and Dana Sue’s daughter Annie (Anneliese Judge). None of the kids had their phones on them, which raises the question: who was in the car?
Although we can speculate about whether or not it was Tyler, trying to calm his brother, Annie is trying to mend his friendship with Tyler, or the mayor’s daughter Nellie (Simone Lockhart) trying to run with Kyle, I just don’t know until Netflix is blessing us with a renewal. Find out who was in the car is not the only story that needs to be seen through.
In the last couple of episodes, Helen and her childhood sweetheart Ryan (Michael Shenefelt) leave with it, potentially, find a second chance in the chef Erik (Dion Johnstone), Dana Sue the ex-husband Ronnie (Brandon Quinn) returns to her life, as she begins to fall very hot farmer Jeremy (Chase Anderson), and the draft of the Law comes asking for Maddie, who just broke up with baseball coach Cal (Justin Bruening), to take you back after your lover Noreen (Jamie Lynn Spears) leaves. And these are just the adult stories, the children are wrapped up in her own drama between the love triangles and the ups and downs of high school sports.
While the show may not be everyone’s cup of tea (or perhaps the glass of southern sweet tea), is full of heart and lint that can not help but make you smile. Ending the show on a distressing note, it would be a shame and certainly not in the sense of the life in Serenity. Here is to hoping that we hear about a renewal soon, because I need to know who was in the car and see a lot more of Chase Anderson and Brooke Elliott chemistry. So this is my plea to Netflix: get your act together, and give us the news sooner rather than later.
