Will Duster ride again? After the HBO Max original drama came to a stunning conclusion on Thursday, with one major character’s fate in question and the news that another who we’ve only heard about in past terms is alive, well, and potentially up to no good, the series left plenty of room to continue on for Season 2. However, on Wednesday, July 9, there was bad news announced about its future.
So will the J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan co-created series return for Season 2? Here’s what we know so far.
Has Duster been renewed for Season 2?
No. On Wednesday, July 9, it was announced thatDuster was canceled after one season.
Who starred in Duster?
The cast included Josh Holloway as getaway driver-turned-FBI informant Jim Ellis, Rachel Hilson as Nina Hayes, Camille Guaty as Izzy, Asivak Koostachin as Nina’s bureau partner Awan Bitsui, Corbin Bernsen as Jim’s father Wade, Benjamin Charles Watson as Royce Saxton, Sydney Elisabeth as Genesis Saxton, Adriana Aluna Martinez as Luna, Greg Grunberg as Abbott, and Keith David as Ezra Saxton. Now, we’ll never know who would have played Joey, a.k.a. Xavier.
What would have happened in Duster Season 2?
The series would have had to follow up on the threads left dangling by the Season 1 finale, including revealing the true fate of Ezra Saxton after he was shot in the chest and what that meant for his children, Royce and Genesis. Last we heard, Royce was “still at the hospital,” presumably with his father in critical condition. Also yet to be determined was what was next for Izzy as she undergoes chemotherapy treatment and how that could have impacted the relationship between Jim and Luna, who still calls him Uncle Jim even though he’s her father.
The season should have also featured Nina participating in the FBI’s effort to track down the national security threat Xavier, who happens to be Jim’s brother Joey, whom he and Wade grieved as dead in an explosion. Nina revealed that it was Saxton who helped Joey disappear, so surely there would have been some drama there, too, if the story had continued.
Morgan told TV Insider she was excited about exploring more about Joey, saying, “We’re so excited about where that’s gonna take us, and hopefully, if we get a Season 2, so many fun escapades to get into — all very exciting, I think … Who is Joey now? And what has he been getting into and who has he been getting into it with? There are a lot more murky areas that we want to peel back the layers of to really deepen the story and really challenge Jim and Nina’s relationship. They’ve just sort of kind of come to a place where they have a little bit of trust and now, what happens when this other X factor is thrown into the mix, so there’s lots of good stuff to play with.” She also teased that a romantic future between Jim and Nina or Jim and Izzy was “on the table.”
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