Production is currently underway on the second season of The Rainmaker, and fans can expect to see the scope of the USA Network legal drama expand when it returns. Whereas the first season was a largely faithful adaptation of the John Grisham novel of the same name and focused mostly on the wrongful death case at the center of that story, Season 2 will open up the client list quite a bit.
Series cocreator and executive producer Michael Seitzman shed some light on what fans can expect from the return of Rudy Baylor (Milo Callaghan), Bruiser Stone (Lana Parrilla), Deck Shifflet (P.J. Byrne), and the other legal eagles.
“I’ll tell you that it’s a bigger show in Season 2,” Seitzman told TV Insider. “There’s more than one case in Season 2. It’ll be very surprising to see how those cases affect each other.”
Seitzman also teased an expansion to the cast, explaining, “There are a bunch of new characters that have joined us in Season 2: Merle Dandridge, in a wonderful role that she’s embodied completely, [along with] Austin Nichols, Liam O’Halloran. We just have a bunch of great people who’ve joined our little circus.”
As for the substance of the coming cases, Seitzman added, “There’s a bunch of kids in harm’s way, [and] there’s a big gambling and Dixie Mafia story.”
In summary, Seitzman said, “There’s a lot going on in Season 2. [It’s] super fun. I think that’s all I’m allowed to say.”
While the full cast list for Season 2 has yet to be revealed, it is expected that most of the principal cast members will return. Previously, Seitzman said he wasn’t sure if Season 2 would follow the same characters as Season 1 or branch out, but the creatives were ultimately swayed by love of the characters.
“It wasn’t quite that it wasn’t that I wasn’t sure I was bringing [the cast] back. It was really about what the show was going to be going forward, was it going to be an anthology or not? We didn’t really know at that point,” he explained. “We were talking about, is it going to be a whole new case in Season 2? And so, that was really what was occupying my mind at the time, mainly because the network was asking, ‘Well, what’s Season 2 going to look like?’ And so, I just didn’t know yet. I hadn’t landed on a storyline yet, and then eventually, I did. The show really lives and dies on these characters and their relationships.”
“You form a relationship, not just us as a group of filmmakers form a relationship with each other and with the characters that everyone’s playing, but the audience forms a relationship as well,” Seitzman added. “They show up because you presented them with some plot in the original trailer that they saw. They stay because they fell in love with the people on screen.”
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