Why Archive 81 Deserves A Second Season
While Netflix is known for its many incredible original TV series, the streaming service has excelled with the horror and thriller genre in the past few years. Midnight Mass wowed fans with a beautiful setting and incredible story, and horror fans are still singing the praises of The Haunting of Hill House. In January 2022, Netflix dropped Archive 81, a thriller based on the podcast of the same name. On the series, Dan Turner (Mamoudou Athie) and Melody Pendras (Dina Shihabi) find themselves tied to each other as Dan restores videotapes that Melody took at the Visser apartment building in New York City in the 1990s. While Dan sees the tapes and becomes more familiar with Melody, Melody and Dan can see each other even though they're in different dimensions.
Season 1 of Archive 81 is a real journey, with scares, a creepy backstory for a cult, well-written characters, and enough mystery to keep fans entertained and interested in tearing through each new episode. While fans wait for news of whether the series has been renewed for a season 2, there are many reasons why Netflix should renew it and allow fans to see more of the sweeping journey that Dan and Melody are on.
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The Archive 81 showrunner wants a season 2, and fans would definitely love to watch this story continue to unfold. The Visser apartment building is such a creepy place that it would be a shame not to be able to spend more time there. If season 2 of Archive 81 could continue the tale of the Visser and allow Dan to explore the origins of the cult there, it seems like a potential season 3 could focus on another scary story altogether. This seems doable since the podcast focuses on a different story each
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