Netflix’s fantasy series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance will not be returning for a second season according to executive producer Lisa Henson. She had the following to say about the show’s fate:
We can confirm that there will not be an additional season of The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance. We know fans are eager to learn how this chapter of The Dark Crystal saga concludes and we’ll look for ways to tell that story in the future. Our company has a legacy of creating rich and complex worlds that require technical innovation, artistic excellence, and masterful storytelling. Our history also includes productions that are enduring, often finding and growing their audience over time and proving again and again that fantasy and science fiction genres reflect eternal messages and truths that are always relevant. We are so grateful to Netflix for trusting us to realize this ambitious series; we are deeply proud of our work on Age of Resistance, and the acclaim it has received from fans, critics and our peers, most recently receiving an Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program.
That series premiered over a year ago and the long silence from Netflix suggested that it would not be returning for a second season. The series does wrap up its storylines within its ten-episode run, though, and acts as a prequel to the 1982 move The Dark Crystal. The creative team did have plans for another season, but that will likely be realized in a different format as Lisa Henson suggests above.
The show won the Emmy for Outstanding Children’s Program even though, like the original film, it offers a rather dark fantasy that would likely be frightening to younger viewers. But it did prove popular with fans and critics in its first season run, currently holding an 86% Fresh Rating and 94% Audience Score on Rotten Tomatoes. A twelve-issue prequel comic book was put out by Boom! Studio shortly after the series premiered and that may be the medium pursued to continue the story.
The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance takes place many years before the events of the movie as a group of elf-like Gelflings band together to defeat the hideous and tyrannical Skeksis who threaten their world with a destructive force known as The Darkening. Its voice cast includes Taron Egerton, Anya Taylor-Joy, Nathalie Emmanuel, Shazad Latif, Simon Pegg, and Mark Hamill.
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