A dead body is just the beginning for the second season of the Alia Shawkat-starring series.
The cast and producers give EW a taste of the Hitchcockian thrills that await.
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No, the woman isnt annoyed that yet another TV show has taken over the neighborhood.
I know there were some reviews that were like, They should just stop at one season!
but we felt the opposite, says executive producer Lilly Burns.
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We literally left them on a cliff-hanger.
We had so much more story to tell.
Put another way: We definitely wanted another season, says co-creator Sarah-Violet Bliss.
Debuting last fall to rave reviews,Search Partys first season was essentiallyGirlsmeetsPretty Little Liars.
It was the perfect ending, funny and sad.
It was a challenging scene to shoot and not just because Portia had to shovel in heels.
We were in a park and fighting the rain, says Reynolds.
But that was good for the frantic pace and energy.
The how of burying a body wasnt the only hurdle the show needed to clear in season 2.
Understanding the characters tortured psyches in the wake of such a heinous act made the writing process more complicated.
This season there was a lot of But why would they do that?
And that was our hardest question every time we wanted them to make a bad decision, says Bliss.
So the season gets off to a strong start, but can it stick the landing?
That depends on how interested you are in pondering the impermanence of life.
Said Rogers, Mortality.
Search Partypremieres Nov. 19 at 10 p.m. on TBS.
