[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for Based on a True Story, Season 2.]
Based mostly on a True Story‘s second season has arrived on Peacock and with it extra twists and turns within the story of couple Ava (Kaley Cuoco) and Nathan (Chris Messina), who discover themselves entangled with Matt (Tom Bateman), a serial killer referred to as the Westside Ripper.
After Season 1’s adventures, the trio proceed their entanglement as Matt turns into romantically concerned with Ava’s youthful sister Tory (Liana Liberato). Vowing to by no means homicide once more, Matt works on steering away from his killer instincts, however suspicions are raised when a string of murders happens round Ava and Nathan’s city.
Ava, in the meantime pieced collectively the clues and concluded {that a} copycat killer was at massive. This investigation was partly tied to her new friendship with Drew (Melissa Fumero), a girl she believed was an investigator herself, however later learns is definitely Matt’s ex. Threatening to reveal Matt after turning as much as Ava and Nathan’s home, Tory stabs Drew to demise and weds Matt with the intention of by no means having to be known as as a witness in opposition to him in court docket ought to his actions lead them there.
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All of the whereas, Matt’s taunted by the brand new serial killer terrorizing the city, who we study within the remaining moments is Matt’s sufferer, Chloe Lake’s (Natalia Dyer) sister (performed by Sara Paxton). By the top of the season, Chloe’s sister had Ava and Nathan tied up, however Matt manages to rescue them.
Agreeing to show himself in, Matt walks in direction of the exit of the podcast studio the place the couple had been taken and held hostage, solely to search out themselves being apprehended by authorities with Matt nowhere in sight. A clip through the credit reveals that Matt had kidnapped Paxton’s character, leaving a quite massive cliffhanger for his character in addition to Nathan who was being arrested for possessing proof of a homicide, planted in his storage locker by Matt.
With regards to Season 2’s end result, Messina admits that Nathan’s decision-making abilities weren’t one of the best. “They’re each fairly responsible of dumbness,” he says of Ava and his character. “However that was a giant gamble, and silly of Nathan, he provides in reference to Nathan’s willingness to belief Matt.
“Hear, they made one actually dangerous alternative a handful of years in the past and they’re nonetheless paying for it and that’s the factor,” Cuoco chimes in. “They’re caught on this internet with Matt who’s now in love along with her sister and we’re coping with this bizarre household dynamic. All of them have filth on one another. And so nobody can actually get out of this.”
As for the place they’d wish to see Ava and Nathan subsequent, Messina admits, “I would really like a jail storyline… I wish to be in jail and [would not] wish to get out as a result of I’ve a brand new id in there because the Westside Ripper.”
In the meantime, Cuoco is keen to see the characters get what they deserve. “I would like them to get in hassle or I would like Matt to get in hassle… I’ve watched sufficient true crime to know something can occur.” As for hope concerning one other season, she provides, “We’d like to tie this up, have a 3rd season… and have this excellent little couple of seasons of a present.”
See what Bateman, Liberato, and govt producer Annie Weisman needed to share about Season 2’s storylines within the full video interview, above, and tell us what you’d wish to see from Based mostly on a True Story in a possible third season.
Based mostly on a True Story, Seasons 1-2, Streaming now, Peacock