‘Kaos’ creator Charlie Covell on season two plans and ‘The End Of The F***ing World’s future
nme.comNetflix drama Kaos, has spoken to NME about the show’s retro soundtrack, plans for a second season and whether they’d return to the universe of hit teen series The End Of The F***ing World.Kaos is set in a modern time where Greek gods such as Zeus (Jeff Goldblum) exist and are still worshipped as they were by ancient peoples.
The plot centres around newly fictionalised characters from classic myths (Eurydice, Dionysus etc.) – and a prophecy which foretells a popular rebellion and the overthrowing of the gods.Released last week (August 30) to general critical acclaim, it debuted at number four in Netflix’s Top 10 most-watched shows with 22.8million hours watched across 3.4million households.
Social media chatter about a possible continuation of the story has been growing ever since – and Covell already has plans for “two more” seasons.“That would be my dream,” they told NME. “I’ve got a pretty clear plan of what I what I do with it, so I just have to hope.”Covell hasn’t got as far as writing their plan down in fine, episode-by-episode detail or drafting new scripts, but said they have “a structure idea for where the story would go”.“I’ve got a document that’s like, ‘This is what I think the plot would be’, and then I have another document of random ideas… Could we take this [Greek] myth?
Or could we do this? You know, almost like an ideas bucket… I keep updating [the documents] when I have any ideas.”They added: “And that’s what I did to develop the first season.
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