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Looks like the makers of The Body thought they’d make us watch Grace wake up from a coma just to announce “I am God,” and then move on as if nothing happened. Technically, there’s nothing wrong with that, in fact, it sounds like a brilliant strategy except for one small problem: we want those freaking answers because after an ending like that, it’s hard not to wonder whether Netflix has another chapter in the box.

Quinn Shephard’s latest psychological drama shows us a Halloween dance-team initiation at a Catholic school and turns into a nightmare which ends with a super relegious girl named Grace ends up in a coma. After enough teen drama and some religious bickering, we eventually watch the town believing that Grace’s condition is nothing normal but divine.

Sure, we don’t get a cookie-cutter ending in the finale as The Body ends with Grace’s “I am God” declaration which then makes everyone wonder whether she has experienced a miracle or whether the people surrounding her have become so desperate to believe that they are prepared to see God in anything.

After an ending that twisty, most went straight to the internet looking for a season two announcement, although it comes with a catch that might test your patience.

Has Netflix renewed ‘The Body’ for Season 2?

We had to be the bummers, but Netflix, as usual, has not announced anything… yet! There is no official announcement from Netflix about the second season of The Body, which means there is no confirmed release date or production plan to get excited about. But, but, but the lack of an announcement shouldn’t be confused with a cancellation when the series has been out for just a day.

What makes the situation interesting is something Shephard said in a November 11th interview with What’s on Netflix, when she was discussing the show’s music, and mentioned, “When I’m writing season two,” as though returning to this world was something she could picture herself doing. It’s a tantalising comment, but it’s not Netflix giving the show another season, and those are two very different things.

And then there’s the small matter of that preposterous ending. Grace has become an object of quasi-religious veneration, while Anya’s confession threatens to reveal the horrors of Halloween night and has made the boundary between divine intervention and collective delusion a battleground of competing truths. Are we expected to abandon these people at the precise moment their world threatens to implode? What conceivable justification could there be for such narrative cruelty?

There is one reason to keep expectations in check, though: pre-release reporting described The Body as a limited series, and Netflix has given no indication that its original plan has changed; however, much room the finale seems to leave for another season.

For now, there’s no season two confirmation, but Shephard’s comment gives fans something more substantial to hold on to than a wild theory about Grace’s last words. Whether Netflix wants to return to this nightmare is another question, and after that finale, it’s one viewers will have a hard time letting go.