Spoilers forward for the Season 1 finale of Grosse Pointe Backyard Society, known as “Unhealthy Seeds” and accessible streaming now with a Peacock subscription.
The twisty, turny, darkly humorous first season of Grosse Pointe Backyard Society has come to an finish on NBC within the spring 2025 TV schedule, and the finale aired with out the community revealing if it will be cancelled like Fits LA or renewed just like the One Chicago collection. “Unhealthy Seeds” proved that Alice and Co. hadn’t really cracked the case of who killed Molly once they realized the gun belonged to Patty.
Whereas Alice was packing a bag for a guilt journey, the core 4 nonetheless had to determine easy methods to get rid of Keith’s physique and take care of the P.I. who knew their secret. There have been main questions left within the current timeline when the credit rolled on the Season 1 finale, however that didn’t stop a flash-forward to a Halloween bash that seemingly went as sideways for Brett, Catherine, and Birdie because the gala did.
Luckily, I’d spoken with showrunners Jenna Bans and Invoice Krebs earlier in Season 1 to get their ideas on a doable second season, and their feedback hit somewhat tougher now because the wait continues for information of GPGS’ future.
What About Season 2?
The central thriller of GPGS’ first season was who “Quiche” was because the items slowly got here collectively of how the particular person had died. The reveal that Quiche was Keith and he was unintentionally killed when attempting to cease a quilt from being destroyed in a woodchipper was a fairly darkly humorous growth no one may have seen coming when the collection began, not to mention the bonus twist that Marilyn had killed Molly, not Patty.
So, is there a future past Season 1 now that the central thriller has been solved? I requested the co-showrunners (who beforehand teamed up on Good Women previous to Grosse Pointe) that very query, and Jenna Bans responded:
We do [see a future]. I feel we’ve got a very good sense of what it will appear like by the top of this season… What we like is it is all offshoots from the Keith/Quiche demise. It is not like a model new particular person dies or one thing like that. It is problems which are triggered as a result of they’ve determined to cowl up this homicide.
Whereas that ought to come as excellent news to any followers of GPGS, there’s nonetheless the difficulty of a scarcity of renewal. It’s price noting that Bans debunked the concept the present had been despatched “to die” on Friday nights, and Invoice Krebs defined the objective to increase viewership on Peacock, and so they “really may see it” as a Peacock unique collection.
At this level, it’s only a ready recreation to be taught the destiny of Grosse Pointe Backyard Society. I’d say that we shouldn’t rule out the potential of a transfer from NBC to Peacock, as the identical swap occurred for Legislation & Order: Organized Crime Season 5, and I can actually think about some characters taking advantage of the liberty to drop F-bombs on the streamer.
The “Tragic” Evolution Of Season 1
In fact, the cliffhanger on the finish of Season 1 may need been simpler to take pleasure in if there was a assure of whether or not or not Grosse Pointe Backyard Society could be again to repay on it. The final scene set within the current featured Alice attempting to admit to the homicide to a police officer, with Joel making an attempt to cease her with out alerting any of his colleagues.
Then, earlier than we noticed if/how Joel pulled it off, the timeline jumped ahead to a Halloween backyard get together with a pumpkin previewing “Subsequent Season.” Alice is nowhere to be seen, however Birdie, Brett, and Catherine are having phrases about belief with a fourth particular person, who’s… carrying a cumbersome duck costume that 100% conceals their identification.
And the cliffhanger ending – or cliffhangers, plural, actually – jogged my memory of the showrunners’ feedback about all of the elements that got here collectively for that tease of “subsequent season” with out an precise assure of one other season. They stated:
- Invoice Krebs: “We just like the simplicity of how the entire season developed, which can then evolve in hopefully a number of seasons, which is it began with Alice questioning what occurred to her canine, and had she not gone on that journey, none of those journeys would have branched out from that, and we they by no means would have ended up on that fateful evening.”
- Jenna Bans: “And had Catherine not informed her that that bullet got here from that gun, it would not have occurred. And had Patty not cherished that quilt, it would not have occurred. It was all a tragic domino impact.”
“Tragic domino impact” is correct, if GPGS is tragically doomed to finish after one season! Krebs went on to notice that the entire homicide mess wouldn’t have occurred if the core 4 hadn’t develop into pals, hadn’t “determined to play this prank concerning the quilt,” hadn’t “ended up close to a woodchipper.” Bans dug even deeper, saying that “had Connor not even confronted Brett, Brett might not have put that pickaxe again the place he put it.”
Per Jenna Bans, they “wished all of it so as to add up within the rearview,” and hopefully followers “a minimum of know we’ve thought of it.” Invoice Krebs went on to sum up all of the work that they “exhaustingly” put into ensuring that all the pieces made sense by the top.
We thought of it exhaustingly, and it was powerful as a result of we have been taking pictures as we have been writing, so we have been solely about two and a half weeks forward from what we have been taking pictures, and so we needed to plot rapidly upfront, as a result of the cement would dry on all these episodes the second they have been shot. We could not return and reshoot. We could not return and alter something. We had these large boards in our workplace and within the writers room that was simply timelines, after which we might erase issues and bounce issues round, simply to ensure all of it needed to make sense to us. In any other case, we felt like we have been type of being low-cost about it.
So, what about the way forward for Grosse Pointe Backyard Society? At this level, I’m simply going to maintain my fingers crossed and hope for both a Season 2 renewal by NBC or information that it’ll get the Organized Crime remedy and swap over to streaming to develop into a Peacock unique. NBC has slotted On Model with Jimmy Fallon, a brand new competitors collection hosted by face of The Tonight Present, within the 8 p.m. ET time slot on Fridays within the fall, however that actually doesn’t imply the case for extra GPGS is hopeless.
For now, you’ll be able to all the time revisit the complete first season streaming with a Peacock subscription. Summer season hiatus is beginning for main networks, so scripted broadcast choices will quickly be few and much between.