How ’Sterling Point’ Sets Up Season 2

Sterling Point (2026) is really resonating with people. I know that my entire algorithm is filled with praise for the show, friends planning watch parties, or incredible fan edits. As someone who fell hard and fast for this show from creator, co-showrunner, and executive producer Megan Park, it makes me so happy to see so much love for it online. It’s a character-driven, slow-burn YA show set on the fictional and titular island in Canada’s Muskoka. Sterling Point is intentional and tender in its storytelling and its characters' voices sound authentic. The dialogue has a fast pace that stands out, like on Gilmore Girls (2000) or Scandal (2012), two of the best shows. 

I appreciate that, in an age when TV shows are unfairly canceled, Sterling Point ends its debut season in a way that both satisfies and teases how much more there is still to explore. Therefore, I couldn’t be more thrilled that Prime Video renewed this show for a second season. With its cliffhangers and plot twists, here’s how Sterling Point sets up Season 2.

There Are Many Relationships to Revisit in ‘Sterling Point’ Season 2

Before we get to the season’s bookend, I need to unpack where Sterling Point leaves its characters. First and foremost, Ramona (Amélie Hoeferle) and Oona (Bo Bragason) break up, and it’s devastating. They’re both in really vulnerable places where they desperately want to pull the other in, but they end up pushing each other away. Oona is clearly scared that Ramona will move on from her—or even forget about her—if she leaves Sterling Point. Meanwhile, Ramona accuses Oona of not having empathy for her, of being selfish. During that argument, Ramona brings up Oona’s mom, who has abandoned her and her sister Maple (Mabel Strachan). 

You can actually see Oona’s walls go right back up, closing off any path to reconciliation for the couple. Since Ramona and Oona are such great friends—best friends, actually—before they ever act on their romantic feelings for one another, I believe that they will find their way back to each other. It seems like they both have some wounds they need to heal before they can be present in their relationship. Oona even says that if she reaches out to Ramona, Ramona won’t go to New York, and Oona doesn’t want to take that opportunity away from Ramona. There’s still so much care there. They just need time, and now they have it with Season 2.

Some characters, like the amazing Sully (Nikko Angelo Hinayo), and dynamics, like Ellis (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie) and Joe (Jeffrey Dean Morgan), could use more attention in a second season. I don’t doubt that the show will spend more time with the ensemble. I know Joe needs to face reality. He thought he was Ramona’s biological father, and he kept that a secret. Plus, he learns his son is shouldering the financial responsibilities of the family business, but Joe’s more upset with Ellis’s attempts to help than with Joe’s inability to be honest about the situation. That’s a lot for a kid to shoulder, and that’s a lot for an adult to brush under the rug. I’m curious to see how they progress. Similarly, the season ends with Connor (Keen Ruffalo) learning that his search for his biological mother is a success—she wants to talk to him. Sterling Point has to follow that thread and introduce Connor and Annie’s biological mother in Season 2. 

Annie Stays in Sterling Point, and Ramona Goes to New York

I imagine that her arrival will throw a wrench into the sense of peace Annie (Ella Rubin) and Ramona finally find at the end of Sterling Point’s first season. Actually, I’d bet that a character like that would impact everyone. As for Annie and Ramona, these two characters have such a beautiful, flawed, and realistic relationship that thinking about them almost makes me tear up. Then again, I am dramatic when it comes to TV shows I love. Seriously, though, am I not meant to cry when Annie says, “Because I’m your sister,” when Ramona asks Annie, “How do you know what I need?” I can’t help but weep—the whole season leads to that breakthrough moment.

At the start of the season finale, Annie finally stands up for her right to be a kid to her dad, Steven (Jay Duplass). She tells him, “It makes me so sad when you’re sad. I literally can’t take it. It wrecks me, so I fix it. I can’t fix it for you right now. I can’t fix you. Look, obviously, I want to make this better and act like I’m okay, but I’m not. Because I’m the kid.” It’s yet another beautiful performance from Ella Rubin that just makes my heart ache for Annie. She just wants to have the freedom of being a kid while she can and know her mom. Both things are true and important, so she makes the difficult but necessary choice to stay in Sterling Point.

After losing her mom and Gordon, Ramona struggles to let anyone else take care of her. By going to New York and giving herself needed space, Ramona can also get to know Steven, which could shake up the dynamics between her, Connor, and Annie. Moreover, Ramona can clear her mind in a place where everything doesn’t hurt—at least not in the same way. It’s genius for Sterling Point to bookend its season with the same sequence that it opens with. This time, though, Ramona is in Annie’s bed in New York, and Annie can breathe again at the cottage by the lake. The places are the same, but the people are so, so different. That sentiment blends into the use of Sarah Kinsley’s “Fleeting.” They’ve changed, and that’s the perfect place for a second season to begin. It makes me ridiculously excited to see how Annie and Ramona being in those very different emotional and literal places impacts their arcs in Sterling Point Season 2.