Sundance Now To Stream 'Black Snow' Season 2 in 2025
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.)
