Netflix has officially announced that it has renewed sci-fi series Lost in Space for a second season via the official Lost in Space Twitter account, which sent out a tweet reading “More Danger, Will Robinson. Lost in Space Season 2 is coming,” along with a short reveal video. The renewal comes almost a month to the day after Lost in Space Season 1 debuted on the streaming service.
Although this is the first official word that the show will continue, Lost in Space’s creators were working on season 2 well before this announcement. They did take some liberties with the original series to create the new one, for example, with the role of Doctor Smith, which was originally played by a man. Parker Posey plays the role in the Lost in Space reboot and it’s all part of its idea of updating the series for modern audiences.
Netflix rebooted the series from a 1965 show of the same name, which aired for three seasons. Both shows focus on the Robinson family, who are part of a group of colonists setting off to a new planet to start new lives for themselves. But after their ship gets thrown off course, they become lost and must survive a strange world that is often hostile. The original series actually found inspiration in the book The Swiss Family Robinson, which was about a family shipwrecked on an island.
According to data released by Nielsen, Lost In Space garnered 3.16 million viewers overall on its first day of release, Netflix’s third best premiere-day viewership in the past year behind Season 2 of Stranger Things and movie Bright.
Netflix has not yet set a target release date or a production schedule for season 2. The end of Season 1 saw the Robinsons orbiting a hostile alien planet with Don West and Dr. Smith, making them literally lost in space.
> Mar Martínez
