Sheriff country came to an epic end with a Secret Mom twist – but what’s next in Season 2?
During the Season 1 finale on Friday, May 22, Mickey (Morena Baccarin) defeated Alec (Wes Chatham), after discovering that her boyfriend and DEA agent was secretly working for Miranda (Kelly O’Hara). She was then approached by the Deputy Director of the DEA – Eva (Rachel Ticotin) – working with her father Wes (W. Earl Brown) despite their estrangement.
Wes was brought in to discuss his role as a confidential informant, but that went off the rails when he recognized Eva as Mickey’s mother – who was supposedly dead.
“In the first season pilot, we’re told that Mickey’s mother is dead, and it’s pretty clear that she is dead. She’s not part of the picture. One of the writers told me relatively early in the first season (that she was secretly alive), and I brushed it off,” said showrunner Matt Lopez exclusively tells Us Weekly. “As the season went on, more and more writers started getting involved. I was pretty late to the game because I don’t want to just flip a card for the sake of flipping a card. If it gives us a really good story and tells us something about the characters we care about and it’s based on real human emotions, then I’m interested.”
Lopez is excited to unpack that in Season 2.
“It resets our family dynamic, which is at the heart of this show,” he teased. “And it goes into all the interesting character wrinkles that it gave us to play with. We’ll see in the first few episodes that Wes thinks that he and Mickey are on the same page, that they were both betrayed by this woman. Mickey doesn’t agree so much, and in some ways you can argue that Wes’ betrayal was worse. We’ll clear all that up.”
He continued, “She’s been out of the picture since Mickey was about 5 or 6 years old, and who owes Mickey more gratitude? Wes believed she was dead, and we’re going to tell the full story that led to this decision to practically stage her death. It’s really fun and has a lot of delicious twists.”
Looking ahead to the future of the series, Lopez said that the return “will shatter expectations,” adding, “There’s a time jump, but then we’ll recreate what happened in the scene we didn’t see. The emotional aftershocks will last much longer than one episode and we’ve built this incredible dynamic where Mickey basically barely speaks to her father and her caregiver is now the woman Mickey thought was dead for 30 years. It has a great engine from the start.”
There will be some new additions to the cast as Skye (Amanda Arcuri) and Hank (Ian Quinlan) you get more screen time. Upon request from Us about Baccarin’s husband, Ben McKenzie, apply for a role yourself Sheriff countryLopez mentioned that he “recently had lunch with the actor.”
“I had lunch with him at the weekend and when I came over on Monday I thought, ‘Let’s think of something for Ben.’ “He could pass and I don’t know if we can afford Ben, but that would be great,” he teased.
As for Mickey’s romance with Boone (Matt Lauria)? The actor and Lopez explained what to expect in a separate interview Us. Lopez is also working on a pilot for a medical drama set in the US Tierra del Fuego And Sheriff country Universe.
“I would like to put in the effort to figure out how to do a crossover of all three shows. There’s a natural kind of connection between a hospital, a fire station and a police station. What excites us, the studio and the network, about a medical show set in this city is the same way Mickey does law enforcement differently, how does healing patients differ?” he told Us. “How is practicing medicine different with our doctors and nurses in a small town like Edgewater?”
Sheriff country is currently streaming on Paramount+.
