Fans have been wondering if Cora will be back.
As always, consider this to be your spoiler alert warning if you haven’t seen Season 1 of The Sinner.
Again, don’t blame us – or viciously murder us – if you stumble onto a spoiler.
Ok, we know that The Sinner is returning and that there’s going to be a brand new case – not exactly a surprise given the fact that the first season was pretty much done and dusted. Cora’s case was closed, if you will.
A few weeks ago, it was revealed that Fargo and Avengers: Infinity War actress Carrie Coon will be joining the second season of The Sinner and that she’ll be playing a mysterious woman named Vera.
As for the plot, her character is described as “a formidable, mysterious woman who struggles between upholding the ideals of the community she leads and fulfilling her own desires.”
We also got the official plot details which state that: “In the wake of the Cora Tannetti case, Detective Harry Ambrose is called back to his hometown in distant rural New York to assess a disturbing new crime: an 11-year-old boy’s horrific double-homicide & his seemingly inexplicable motive.
“As Ambrose comes to realise there’s nothing ordinary about the boy or where he came from, his investigation leads him straight into the hidden darkness of his hometown and pitting him against those who’ll stop at nothing to protect its secrets.”
Jessica Biel’s performance as the beleaguered and mysterious Cora earned her a Golden Globe nomination and while Biel will be involved behind the scenes on Season 2, it seems that Cora will not feature in the show.
In an interview with Variety, Biel said: “We did talk a lot about does Cora come back for Season 2 and what is the relationship because that’s what was interesting to me.”
She adds: “What happens when a woman goes through that? What is life like after that when the only person really in her life that she can connect with, even besides her husband, is the detective who got her out of this thing? But we just couldn’t do it this particular season.”
Notice how she said ‘this particular season.’
On that note, it’s fair to assume that we haven’t seen the last of Cora Tannetti.
Despite the fact that she’s not returning for the new season, Detective Harry Ambrose, played by Bill Pullman, will be coming back and he gave a little glimpse at what to expect.
“This terrible incident has happened where a child has been discovered in a hotel room, parents are dead, the child admits to having killed them. The shock of that, the trauma of that, begins to ripen through the whole community. You realise the layers and layers of dissembling and protectiveness and everything.
“So this is, and Ambrose is trying to stay on the rails for a little bit. He’s gone through this experience with her [Cora Tannetti] and he’s cleaned up his act a little bit. Trying hard.”
We can’t wait.
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