No announcement yet on 'Wayward Pines Season 2'
FOX has not yet announced their decision whether they will go forward with "Wayward Pines Season 2"
The shocking 'Wayward Pines' season finale eyeballed 3.9 million viewers. It is the highest rated scripted television program this summer for adults between the ages of 18 and 49. M Night Shyamalan, the show's producer and director, might have the storyline for the next season but it still might not be enough for the show to go ahead.
The Wayward Pines Finale was totally unexpected after the slow build-up of the anger and confusion of its residents leading to their terrorist activities. The aberrations or "Abbies", the mutated species, took down Wayward Pines' fences and ravaged the town, going on a killing spree. Lead hero, Matt Dillon's Ethan Burke, confronts the town creator, David Pilcher, and desperately tries to protect the townspeople. In a particularly gory scene, he gets blown up in an elevator trying to stop the "Abbies".
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Ethan Burke, David Pilcher and Ms. Fisher all die and Ethan's son, Ben Burke, who had gone into a coma after a head injury, awoke three years later to learn that the "First Generation" of Academy students have put the adults in suspension. The young and motivated students now control Wayward Pines.
This does set up the premise for a different world of "Wayward Pines Season 2" should Fox go ahead with the limited-episode series.
For fans, the death of Ethan Burke is troubling.
When Executive Producer Chad Hodge was asked if Ethan Burke needed to die, he replied, "We wanted it to be real. Ethan, as our hero, actually has to be the one to make a sacrifice. He realizes in that elevator that if he doesn't blow up the elevator, effectively killing all the Abbies, that they're going to get in, they're going to get into the super structure and kill everybody. He has to make the ultimate sacrifice, which really is the ultimate heroic move."
Wayward Pines Finale has the First Generation Academy students taking control. Hopefully this should pave the way for a Season 2.
