La Brea creator and co-showrunner David Appelbaum promises that Season 2 will resolve a gnawing question.
Viewers will finally learn what happened to Eddie, who was mysteriously killed in Season 1, Appelbaum shared with TVLine. “That is a mystery that is going to be a big part of Season 2, finding out who did that,” the co-showrunner said. “It’s going to be a threat to the people in the clearing and it’s going to reemerge as an important story point.”
In Season 1, Episode 4 of the NBC sci-fi drama, Lilly (Chloe De Los Santos) stumbles upon the veiny body of a fellow sinkhole survivor, Eddie, who has been killed by an unseen creature/person/force that nearly attacks Lilly as well. After examining the body, resident doctor Sam (Jon Seda) suggests that Eddie was electrocuted — pretty inexplicable, given that this is 10,000 B.C. The mystery deepens when Sam notes that the burn pattern is often seen on someone who has been struck by lightning — also inexplicable, as Marybeth (Karina Logue) points out there hasn’t been any lightning since their arrival.
As the season unfolds with the introduction of countless mysteries, Eddie’s perplexing demise fades into the background, but many fans were still left wondering what actually happened to Eddie.
NBC’s La Brea centers on the four members of the Harris family, who are torn apart when a massive sinkhole opens up in downtown Los Angeles, swallowing Eve (Natalie Zea), her son Josh (Jack Martin), and countless other Angelinos and transporting them to 10,000 B.C. Spared by the sinkhole and stuck in the present day, Gavin Harris (Eoin Macken) and his teenage daughter Izzy (Zyra Gorecki) learn there’s much more to the sinkhole than meets the eye.
In an interview with CBR, Appelbaum opened up about the ambitious project and what inspires him. “Spielberg movies were a big touchstone,” the La Brea creator shared. “So many Spielberg movies, what audiences love about them, is the scope, scale, and adventure but they all have this emotional heart to them. There’s always that beating, emotional heart, like E.T. with the broken family. It’s that sensibility that was the biggest driving inspiration but also Lord of Flies-type stories about survival. I watched a lot of Naked and Afraid, stories about how do you survive in the wilderness, things like that I find really fascinating.” For his part, co-showrunner Bryan Wynbrandt cited Dark, Netflix’s German time travel series, as inspiration.
Many have pointed out La Brea‘s resemblance to Lost — a comparison leveled at many sci-fi dramas that have debuted since the iconic series aired. Fortunately, the La Brea team has a sense of humor about it; in a wink to its famed predecessor, stoner Scott (Rohan Mirchandaney) wonders aloud, “maybe we’re just in an episode of Lost.”
Season 2 of La Brea has yet to receive a premiere date.
Source: TVLine
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