Lodge Costiera is a brightly coloured antidote to darkish TV, each actually and figuratively. The motion sequence, filmed in Italy’s Amalfi Coast with a global forged and crew, stretches over attractive Italian terrain in its six episodes, which debuted in full on September 24 on Prime Video. And its format might let the sequence go on for so long as the workforce desires, supplied that viewers are tuning in.
As of the time of publication, Lodge Costiera has not been renewed. Will there be a Lodge Costiera Season 2? Jesse Williams hopes so. Right here’s what he shared about his hopes for a second season.
Will there be a Lodge Costiera Season 2?
Williams stars in Lodge Costiera as Daniel De Luca, an ex-marine now working as a fixer for a resort proprietor, Augusto (Tommaso Ragno), in Daniel’s hometown, Positano. Daniel is half Italian, half American, and spent most of his childhood together with his mom on the Amalfi Coast earlier than shifting to america. The sequence reveals why his army profession got here to an sudden finish as Daniel and his ragtag workforce of fixers resolve mysteries for the resort proprietor and his rich friends. The largest thriller at first of the season is the sudden disappearance of Augusto’s daughter. Firstly of the season, she’s been lacking for 2 weeks. Motion, comedy, and drama unfold throughout the remaining episodes, however the present performs with tone rather a lot, so no two episodes are the identical in vibe.
Williams says there’s an abundance of inspiration to drag from for extra seasons, ought to the sequence get renewed.
“With all of the insanity occurring on this planet proper now, we simply wished to do one thing that was mild and brilliant and will simply provide you with a break,” he advised TV Insider in our Manhattan studio. “You would simply put it on, and it’s six episodes. You’ll be able to binge it at your personal tempo and simply knock it out. So it’s a enjoyable experiment, and it’s enjoyable motion, too.”
“If individuals are responding rather well everywhere in the world, if individuals like it as a lot as we do, we’d like to preserve telling tales,” he stated. He’d definitely be pleased to return to the Amalfi Coast to movie extra episodes.
“In America, an previous constructing right here is 100 years previous,” the Gray’s Anatomy alum stated. “The cool factor in regards to the Amalfi Coast is … You’re having lunch subsequent to a constructing that’s actually 1,400 years previous. There’s a heritage, there’s a historical past. You’re strolling amongst ghosts. It’s constructed on prime of civilizations, on prime of entire different civilizations. There’s quite a lot of buried treasure there, figuratively and actually.”
There’s additionally the chance to showcase the “numerous cultural nuances” of Italy, the actor/producer famous. “The South could be very completely different than northern Italy. There are quite a lot of cultural collisions that we will put collectively and tales to inform deep within the recesses of the caves and mountains of that shoreline. So, we’ve bought an extended record of issues we’re excited to share with the world in the event that they reply to this one.”
One other attraction is “the worldwide capacity,” he added. “Anyone can fly in, come out and in, and convey their baggage with them.” And boy, do these characters have baggage.
Be it the resort friends or its staff, Williams stated the Amalfi Coast is “a spot the place individuals go to cover as a lot as it’s a place the place individuals go to trip.” That’s a ripe place for drama.
Who’s within the Lodge Costiera forged?
Williams leads alongside Maria Chiara Giannetta, Sam Haygarth (from Jojo Rabbit and The French Dispatch), Jordan Alexandra, Antonio Gerardi, Tommaso Ragno (from Luna Park), Amanda Campana, Pierpaolo Spollon, Alejandra Onieva, and Jean-Hugues Anglade.
Lodge Costiera, Obtainable Now, Prime Video