When Wynonna Earp debuted last April, there were no expectations put upon it, but with its Season 2 premiere less than 24-hours away, fans are hoping the SyFy comic book-based television series can keep delivering the supernatural thrills and darkly comical quips.
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According to its showrunner and executive producer, Emily Andras, is glad that so many people fell in love with the show, but she admits that there is now a pressure to meet their growing expectations. With confidence, she thinks Season 2 will be as “fresh and fun” as the first, while also preserving the same tone.
So which supernatural creatures can we expect to see Wynonna and her posse of dysfunctional allies going up against this season? “Well, as always, each year on the show you have to up the stakes. So one thing we really loved from the original comic book by Beau Smith is that Wynonna is really a paranormal warrior,” Andras shared with EW. “So she’s not just dealing with revenants in the comic book; she’s also dealing with werewolves and zombies and Egyptian princesses and what not. Syfy was very encouraging about pushing us to expand the world in the second season. So Wynonna is taking on different types of paranormal creatures, different shades of the demonic, so to speak. At the same time, she’s got to put down every single revenant in the Earp curse. So it’s just bigger, badder, better.”
Based on the IDW Comic, Wynonna Earp (Melanie Scrofano) follows Wyatt Earp’s great granddaughter as she battles demons and other creatures. With her unique abilities, and a posse of dysfunctional allies, she’s the only thing that can bring the paranormal to justice. After years away, Wynonna Earp has traveled back to her home town of Purgatory to reluctantly take on the role destined for Wyatt Earp’s heir: Demon protector. Her enemy: Revenants, the resurrected (and twisted) souls of the criminals Wyatt Earp once took down. Using only her wits and her wit, Wynonna, along with sister Waverely (Dominique Provost-Chalkley), associate Agent Dolls (Shamier Anderson) and Wyatt’s cursed-with-immortality-best-friend Doc Holliday (Tim Rozon), must try to stop the Revenants from taking over the town – and escaping into the world.
The cast also features Katherine Barrell as Nicole Haught, a local cop and Waverly’s girlfriend, as well as newcomers Varun Saranga as Jeremy Chetri and Tamara Duarte as Rosita.
Wynonna Earp is produced in Calgary by SEVEN24 Films, and distributed by IDW Entertainment. Emily Andras (Lost Girl, Killjoys) developed the series for television and serves as Executive Producer and showrunner. SEVEN24’s Jordy Randall and Tom Cox, IDW’s Ted Adams and David Ozer, Banditos Yanquis’ Todd Berger, and Circle of Confusion’s Rick Jacobs also serve as Executive Producers.
Wynonna Earp Season 2 premieres Friday, June 9!
