Although the primary season only recently premiered on Prime Video, many are questioning if 'The Consultant' will go back for a Season 2?
If you're looking for a brand new twisty show to binge, we advise you check out The Consultant. The black comedy-thriller series sees two-time Academy Award winner Christoph Waltz within the name role of Mr. Regus Patoff, a mysterious consultant who takes keep an eye on over the cellular game company CompWare after the homicide of its CEO.
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So, is 'The Consultant' returning for Season 2?
At the time of writing, Prime Video has not renewed The Consultant for a Season 2.
Now, that isn't to mention the show has been canceled — for all we know, the streaming provider might be taking its time offering a renewal because it did with the sci-fi neo-Western series Outer Range.
On the opposite hand, it is conceivable Prime Video is hesitant to offer a second season due to the mixed reception. The black comedy mystery currently holds a mediocre 78 % approval score on Rotten Tomatoes, however the audience rating is much lower at 43 percent. Although enthusiasts and critics praise Christoph Waltz's performance, many have criticized the show's writing and tempo.
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Daniel Fienberg of The Hollywood Reporter wrote: "The Consultant is counting on Waltz as its exclusive source of humor and terror," including, "however, you're placing that much responsibility on one actor and one character in an eight-episode season, you'd darned well better do something impressive by the end. Or at least interesting. The Consultant does not."
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John Anderson of the Wall Street Journal stated The Consultant "strings us along with unresolved questions, presuming we’ll stay fascinated, in a way that’s become irritatingly common among eight-part series," while our very own Bianca Piazza of Distractify referred to as the display a "cloudy satire suffering from tonal incongruity and half-baked cultural reflections."
Creator-writer Tony Basgallop pitched 'The Consultant' as a multiple-season display.
Following the discharge of The Consultant, author and publisher Tony Basgallop spoke with Collider and printed if he would like to see the display return for a Season 2. When asked if he pitched it as a one-season or multiple-season show, Tony mentioned, "we pitched it very much as this can go on and on, but we were very clear to say that it's not just a continuation. These are chapters."
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He added, "You know, each season should reflect something in itself and stand for something in itself and have its own ending in a sense. What I didn't want to do is just, 'Let's get to the end of every season and have a huge cliffhanger, and then we'll figure out what it is, how we can solve it later in the next season if we're lucky enough.' It very much wasn't that approach."
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"I think, with someone of Christoph’s caliber, we had to reassure him that, 'Look, seasons are whole things. Each one you should look at as a novel in itself.' You know, maybe we'll do a trilogy. Maybe one is enough. Maybe two will be right," Tony persisted.
"I think if the materials are there then we'll continue," he mentioned. "We don't have that same pressure of 10, 20 years ago, of like 'You need 20 episodes a year, you gotta run for five years.' It's just not the marketplace anymore. We don't have to pitch things in that way." Well, we are hoping to peer it go back to the small display for a new installment!
The Consultant is now streaming on Prime Video.
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