What to Expect From Every Year After Season 2

Every Year After is one of the buzziest shows on Prime Video right now.

After fleeing Barry’s Bay ten years prior due to a horrible mistake, Persephone ‘Percy’ Fraser returns to the idyllic lakeside town she spent her formative summers in after a death rocks the community.

There, she reunites with Sam Florek, her first love and, more prominently, her first heartbreak. The series, which adapts the novel Every Summer After, primarily has two timelines: the present day and flashbacks of summers gone past. Without spoiling anything, Every Year After Season 1’s climax suggests that Barry’s Bay and its inhabitants are on the cusp of a whole new era — so there’s plenty of potential if a Season 2 were to be commissioned.

Although nothing has been confirmed just yet, it’s clear that the show was written with a Season 2 in mind. So, allow us to wear our tin foil hats as we speculate what a second Season of the hit show might look like. 

What Will Every Year After Season 2 Be About?

Every Year After Season 2 is expected to be based on the 2025 novel One Golden Summer. This book is - spoiler alert! - all about Charlie Fleck, meaning that we can expect him to survive the apparent heart attack he experienced at the end of Season 1. In One Golden Summer, we discover that Charlie actually has a congenital heart condition: the same one that killed his father years earlier. But there’s more to the story than just his health crisis. 

The photo Charlie discovered, which included himself, Sam, and Percy on the boat, is actually a subtle Easter egg for next season. This is because, as book loyalists know, the photo was taken years ago by a character named Alice Everley. In One Golden Summer, Alice is a photographer who returns to Barry’s Bay and eventually falls in love with Charlie. As their relationship develops, we can expect Charlie, in turn, to undergo a lot of changes in a potential second season, as he grapples with the consequences of not only his health crisis but also his playboy actions and years of emotional unavailability. 

Reflecting on the season finale to Deadline, showrunner Amy B. Harris says of Charlie: “I loved the idea [that] Charlie has buried himself in work. He has a broken heart. It’s now physically breaking down, but he’s also lost everything that matters to him. He lost his brother; he lost that community in Barry’s Bay. There’s this sadness and a heartbrokenness to where he is, and it felt so perfect that Alice’s photo would be the thing that reminded him of the world he loved and has lost.”

Charlie aside, there’s also plenty going on with the rest of Barry’s Bay, including Percy and Sam’s unfinished business, Jordie and Chantal’s budding relationship, and the potential love triangle between the pair and Delilah, whom Jordie has always harboured feelings for. There’s also the potential for a love triangle involving Delilah, Charlie, and Alice — which probably makes it more of a love matrix. Either way, it looks set to get messy. And that’s just how we like it. 

Who Will Be In The Cast?

With no major deaths and departures at the end of Season 1, we can expect the whole cast to return, including Michael Bradway (Charlie), Matt Cornett (Sam), Sadie Soverall (Percy), Aurora Perrineau (Chantal), Joseph Chiu (Jordie), and Abigail Cowen (Delilah). 

If commissioned, the most notable new cast member for Every Year After Season 2 would be Alice, and while there are plenty of fan casts in the mix, nothing has been confirmed as of yet. 

When Could Every Year After Season 2 Be Released?

The turnaround for Season 1 of Every Year After was pretty swift. Principal photography took place between June and September 2025, with the show being released just nine months after filming wrapped. However, before diving into the next one, the screenplay would have to be written, Alice (and other characters) would have to be cast, and a second season would actually need to be commissioned. 

If I had to hazard a guess based on all these factors and Season 1’s turnaround time, I would expect a new series to arrive towards the end of 2027 at the very earliest.