Warning: Spoilers ahead for season 2 ofOn My Block.
On My Blocksure knows how to leave viewers hanging on a cliff!
We catch up with Ruby being released from the hospital and still mourning the death of Olivia.
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So what just went down?
LAUREN IUNGERICH:We did.
We knew about it before we even wrote the first season.
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It was part of a decision made as part of developing the pitch to sell it.
I know it sounds really fed up.
[Laughs] But it makes for really good storytelling.
What we wanted to do was to play the phases.
And now by the end of this season, Jamal has tasted that loss of innocence a little bit.
A little bit less than the rest of the group, but seeing him have that evolution was important.
It’s a weird tone, but if you watchAwkwardit’s the same tone.
I don’t really know how it works on this show, because it feels like it’s life.
This is why I have a career, I guess.
Because I can write ups and downs so naturally, and the balance, and how to execute them.
I don’t actually think about it, it’s just how it comes out of me.
It’s definitely that moment of, we have to bring the fun back amid these really heavy things.
What did you hope to accomplish with him in season 2?
The overarching drive of the show is RollerWorld and how it plays into everything.
This notion that has been predetermined for Cesar is a real thing.
It’s not just in gang culture, it’s in families who are immigrants from different places.
And for Cesar, it’s going to be complicated for him.
That’s something that we’re really going to explore.
Well, I don’t want to tell you anything because I think I would give it away.
Basically what I can tell you is that it’s setting us up for our season 3 drive.
It will totally make sense when it is revealed, but it’s not what you’d expect.
I think that’s the fun of the show.
We knew we could not tonally duplicate what we did last season, it would just be redundant.
There was an original ending that was not that ending that set up season 3 in a different way.
They were a little hesitant, but they came around when they saw it.
While some kids are really frustrated by it, it left them really excited for season 3.
We’re excited to write season 3, and we hope that we get one.
And that is all I can say.
The fans don’t really want to know what happens!
That kind of leads me into my last question.
Oh my God, you totally just made me cry.
[Laughs] You’re just reminding me how amazing this has been.
They’re seeing me, but they don’t see themselves.
It’s been so awesome to have such authenticity and inclusion.
It’s been transformative for me.
On My Blockseason 2 is now streaming on Netflix.
