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Cristin Milioti in Made for Love<\/i> (Photo: John P. Johnson \/ HBO Max)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cristin Milioti and co. are returning to the Hub! HBO Max<\/a> recently announce that they\u2019ve renewed tech satire Made for Love<\/em> for a second season. Based on Alissa Nutting\u2019s 2017 novel, the critically acclaimed first season followed Hazel (Milioti) as she tried to escape her suffocating marriage to tech billionaire Byron Gogol (Billy Magnussen) even as he monitored her every movement with a tracking device implanted in her brain. Along the way, she reconnected with her estranged father Herbert (Ray Romano), who happened to be in a bizarre relationship of his own, with a silicon sex doll named Diane.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re thrilled we get the chance to work with our incredible cast and crew again,\u201d executive producers and season two showrunners Christina Lee and Nutting said in a statement. \u201cWe would\u2019ve announced the pick-up earlier, but it was a beast closing Diane\u2019s deal. Everyone thinks she\u2019s a doll but she\u2019s a real hard-ass.\u201d<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s eight-episode first season ended with a devastating twist: after learning of her dad\u2019s terminal illness, she returns to Byron\u2019s sealed compound where he promises to help treat Herb. That was a major departure from the novel, in which Hazel opts to care for Herb herself rather than returning to the Hub\u2014one that clearly sets up more story to come.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted this choice for her to ultimately choose her father over her own freedom,\u201d Lee told Decider<\/a> back in April. \u00a0\u201cWe felt like that would lead to more questions and more story.\u201d<\/p>\n

For her part, Milioti has pointed to the ambiguity at the end of Season 1 as an indication of where the series might go next. In the final shot, it\u2019s Hazel<\/em> who takes Byron\u2019s hand, hinting that she\u2019s made a choice and won\u2019t remain passive going forward. \u201cIt\u2019s not like she\u2019s being led back in like a dog on a leash or something,\u201d she said in a recent Q&A<\/a>. \u201cShe is also complicit in this return, and it was a bit out of her hands, and it\u2019s just like there\u2019s so many colors there, and I get really, for lack of a better term, jazzed by ambiguous moments like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

And of course, there are lingering questions about Byron. In the Season 1 finale, Magnussen\u2019s character revealed his real name, hinting at a working-class background and complicated family history. \u201cPeople were asking: Why doesn\u2019t he know who Willy Wonka is? Like, who is this guy? Is the Greg Benson thing real?\u201d Lee told Deadline<\/a> in April. \u201cAnd I will say that is something that we want to address in Season 2, among everything else.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything else? Like, how Gogol henchpersons Fiffany (Noma Dumezweni) and Herringbone (Dan Bakkedahl) will escape \u201cthe pasture\u201d? And how Herb and Diane are going to adjust to life in the Hub? And any number of other tech developments the series can lampoon. As Nutting has said<\/a> the possibilities are endless: \u201cI think the nice thing about this show is that technology isn\u2019t going away anytime soon and neither are our relationships, so we kind of have this evergreen content.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29097,"featured_media":27921,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[38,16],"yoast_head":"\nWhat Can We Expect From \u2018Made For Love\u2019 Season 2?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cristin Milioti and co. are returning to the Hub! 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