Here’s why a second season of Making a Murderer looks very unlikely

Making a Second Season?

According to Netflix content boss Ted Sandaros, there are no plans to make a second season of the explosive documentary series. Though we really shouldn't still need to warn you about spoilers, stop reading on this very word... If you don't want to know that subjects of the docuseries Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey are both still in prison. Despite various petitions and movements to have the men freed, there has little-to-no actual indication that their criminal status is being reconsidered by anybody with the power to do so. In order to tell the story we saw in the first season of the show, documentarians Moira Demos and Laura Ricciardi compiled over 700 hours of footage across 10 years, which should give you an idea of how difficult it would be to quickly produce a second season in the same way the makers of a sitcom might. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxgbdYaR_KQ Speaking in an exclusive interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Sandaros confirmed that "There's no idea for a second season, there's no pitch for a second season; we're not talking about a second season." Sandaros also said that Demos and Ricciardi have been bombarded with so much press that they haven't had much time to continue compiling footage for a follow-up season. The Chief Content Officer of the global streaming giant went on to leave the door open for a follow-up season "in ten years time" or "an hour special", but added the caveat that whatever happens next in terms of Netflix content wholly depends on what happens next in the cases of Steven Avery and Brendan Dassey.