‘Alias Grace’ Season 2: Will Netflix Cancel Or Renew Miniseries?

“Alias Grace” is a hit with critics, and fans are already wondering if Season 2 is on the way. However, not every successful title earns a sequel.

Netflix has promoted “Alias Grace,” their dark historical drama about the psychoanalysis of a murderer, as a miniseries. Not only does that mean that the season is shortened, but it also hints that a second season isn’t planned.

While plenty of miniseries go on to have consecutive seasons, Netflix hasn’t made it look like they plan to go forth with more. While most TV shows have the number of seasons they have under their titles, “Alias Grace” is listed as “1 Series” on the streaming platform.

The other issue is that “Alias Grace” had a pretty definitive ending. The show followed Grace Marks, a young maid who was accused and convicted of murdering her employer. [SPOILER ALERT] In the final episode, Marks was pardoned and moved to New York, as she did in real life.

That’s the end of the book, but it doesn’t have to be the end of the TV show. Margaret Atwood, who wrote “Alias Grace,” is also responsible for “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The Hulu show reached the end of the book when the first season came to a close, but the TV show is moving forward with a second season. The difference between “Handmaid’s Tale” and “Alias Grace, however, is that the latter is partially based on a true story.

Grace Marks and the murders of Thomas Kinnear and Nancy Montgomery were very much real. Marks really was pardoned and moved to New York, but historians don’t know what happened to her after that. Margaret Atwood’s book fills adds plenty of fictional details to Marks’ story, but if a second season were to be ordered, it would be entirely made up.

Netflix has no announced plans to renew the show, which was a co-production with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, but they also haven’t announced that the series is finished either. Fans will have to wait and see if the drama continues.