Feria Season 2: Here How The Hell Will The Netflix Series Continue? What We Know
Although Netflix has not yet confirmed that second installment, the open ending cries out (and what cries) for a continuation. This is what could happen.
Is there going to be a second season of Feria: The Darkest Light, the Netflix series? To be honest, we still cannot clearly answer that question. And not only because Netflix has not confirmed it, because it is usual for it to take its time, but because the variables that influence that decision are quite tight: a week after its premiere it remains in the upper area of the top 10, but quite far of a number 1 that does tend to reach powerful premieres of Spanish fiction, as is the case. On the other hand, the open ending invites the series to have been planned with, at least, that second season, but it also works against the fact that we are talking about a period series (even if it is close) with a lot of post-production of special effects, which always raises the budget.
In short: there will most likely be a second season, because Netflix tends to prevent its series from being open, but it would not be a big surprise if the data does not accompany it and it is considered closed. Actually, as we commented in our explained end of Feria, at a plot level it could be argued that the series has ended. The first season poses a fight between good and evil, with that more evident layer of terror/fantasy and with another much more interesting political and social reading. And decide that evil wins.
Seen through the first layer, the demon Yaldabaoth has managed to trick Sofia (Carla Campra) into opening the gates of hell, and what comes next we can imagine, a second season is not needed to show it. Seen through the second, the history of fascism (to summarize it in one word) repeats itself. It’s here, it’s inevitable that we relive the horrors of the past.
What Can Happen In Season 2 Of Feria The Darkest Light’?
Or the question that we are really asking ourselves: how is the arrival of hell on earth, that total apocalypse, shown in a Spanish series set in the Andalusia of the nineties? We are going to play at putting ourselves in the mind of the writers. If the first season has been that of the triumph of evil, surely they will be tempted that the continuation goes in the opposite direction. How could the property be returned? On the fantasy level, the good thing would be for Sofia, her family, and maybe the whole town, to return the demons to her place so they can finally live in peace and love. On the socio-political level, for the good to win would imply looking in the face at the injustices and fears that fundamentalism has unleashed, recognizing the victims, restoring their dignity and building a healthy, free society with memory from there.
How is that displayed? Well, let’s theorize that it’s free. One possibility is that the arrival of hell is more subtle, not in a total destruction plan. For example, that Yaldabaoth gets into Sofia’s body and she is the one who somehow guides the people towards her particular holocaust in puppy mode of the extreme right, until for whatever reason she manages to defeat him and turn the tables. Another candidate to lead or accompany her in this evil intrusion is detective Guillén (Isak Férriz). Because at the end of the first season we discover that he has leukemia, and the fear of dying can make him the perfect candidate to cling to life in a desperate way.
Another path could be for Sofía to enter that hell behind the door of the temple to rescue her mother, Elena (Marta Nieto). In a broad stroke, it could be understood that Elena represents the Spanish generation that chose to be forgotten during the Transition, while Sofía would embody that youth that awakens in the face of that conflict and has the opportunity to do things right once and for all. And the union of these two forces would be the one that would work the miracle of leaving evils behind, of course with more than one sacrifice. Perhaps, why not, they will find themselves in hell with grandfather Valentín, an example of the victims who have not been able to manage their pain in the face of injustice, and all together redeem themselves once and for all.
In any case, and taking into account the production capacity of a series like this, the logical thing is to think that the action will remain in the town and will develop through those specific possessions. In other words, the devil knows more about budget restrictions than about the devil. Will we see him killing flies with his tail? Until the Netflix God enlightens us, we will not know.
