Sundance Now To Stream 'Black Snow' Season 2 in 2025
Travis Fimmel as DC Cormack in 'Black Snow' Season 2
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Australia's leading streaming service, Stan, initially commissioned Black Snow as a standalone miniseries in 2022, with Travis Finnel (Dune: Prophecy) attached to lead the crime drama as Detective James Cormack. Billed as a "coming-of-age whodunit," Season 1 focused on a 1990s-era small-town murder that rocked North Queensland’s South Sea Islander community in which 17-year-old Isabel Baker, played by Talijah Blackman-Corowa, was murdered. The series began in 2020, however, with the opening of a time capsule, which turned out to hold the key to the never-solved case.
An exploration of racial tensions and the legacy of colonialism, Black Snow was a massive hit down under, so much so that Stan greenlit it for a second season in April 2024. Of course, the first season was half-set 30 years ago, and most present-day characters had completed their arc. The series did not make Season 2 a direct follow-up; instead, it went for a semi-anthology series-type story, with Finnel's DC Cormack as the only returning character.
The new story is set in a completely different community and tackles a brand-new murder. When it was greenlit, Sundance Now boarded the second season as part of the producing team, which hopefully means the streaming service will bring it over a little quicker than last time. (AMC Networks was not part producer of Season 1; the series premiered on New Year's Day 2023 on Stan and arrived on Sundance Now in December 2023.)
Check out the first teaser for Season 2.
Here's Season 2's synopsis:
In season two, Detective Cormack tackles two separate missing persons cases. One is professional, as he investigates the disappearance of Zoe Jacobs (McKinnon), who disappeared from her own 21st birthday party in 2003. The other is personal, as Cormack searches desperately for his own younger brother, who went missing when they were children.
Fimmel is joined by a new cast featuring Jana McKinnon (Bad Behaviour), Dan Spielman (Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries), Victoria Haralabidou (The Tourist), Kat Stewart (One Night), Megan Smart (Class of ’07), and Alana Mansour (Terra Nova).
Series creator Lucas Taylor penned the episodes with Season 1 director Sian Davies splitting helming duties with Helena Brooks. Season 1 lead actor Blackman-Corowa joins the second season as director’s attachment, supported by Screen Queensland. Executive producers include Taylor, Davies, and Rosemary Blight.
Black Snow Season 2 debuts on Stan on Thursday, January 1, 2025, in Australia and will follow on Sundance Now and AMC+ in America in the early part of the year.
