season 2??

Whatever issues she had with the prosthesis and Manchester, Chloe did say in a recent TV Guide interview that there is the possibility of a second season and that she would consider doing it - she enjoyed playing the character.

The other actors have been optioned for a second season, so at this point taking it further seems to mostly depend on the reception the show gets as it's seen by more people, and the writers coming up with further storylines that everyone's satisfied with. Chloe is getting a lot of positive attention for the role, so if everything else falls into place, it seems like she'd probably sign on again.

Because we don't work like that in Britain. We don't have seasons. We don't break off halfway through a series and show the rest later. Season doesn't make any sense in British television.

I agree and I'm not buying it. I figured that the first season would tie-up in a nice spot that wouldn't require a follow up episode, but this was literally in mid-scene, with a stand-off. I thought that maybe there were more episodes somewhere else, and even went to Amazon, thinking a complete DVD set would solve the question. I found out there were only six episodes. Period. There must have been plans to go forward and they're just talking crap, saying it was meant to be complete as it was. Nonsense.
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Alric Knebel

God dammit, I just finished the first season on Netflix and while I knew it was going to end of a cliffhanger, I was hoping it would've been one that was open to interpretation. Nope, it was a nasty cliffhanger which would've lead into who these hits were being done for and why if the series continued.

Excellent show tho, well deserving of another 6 episodes to conclude the story.

Because sponges never have bad days.

That was my initial reaction to the ending too but then I thought about it and it actually makes sense. After all when you do think about that last scene there are really only 3 ways in which it can end, and only one of those would warrant a second series.

1. Eddie shoots Mia and Ryan shoot Eddie, story ends.

2. Eddie - faced with the fact that he will die whether or not he kills Mia - turns the gun on himself, story ends.

3. Eddie and Mia strike a new deal where they go after whoever "They" are, story goes on.

My main concern with it being just a 6 episodes mini series is that there was so much more that could have been told. The way I would have liked to see it would be the first two episodes turned into series 1 with the kids and Mia adjusting to each other. The main issue I had with the first episode was how Aaron and Ryan became like best friends without any transition after Aaron had bullied Ryan and Ryan had punched Aaron out.

Episodes 3-4 would then become series 2 with focus on the escalating conflict between John and Mia (and the kids), and also perhaps delving deeper into Eddie's motives for helping Mia buy the farm.

The last two episodes would then have been series 3 focusing on Mia's conflict with her biological family and their backstory, as it was presented now it seemed almost like a random sideplot to fill out the mini-series.

As for the possibility of an actual follow up I would have left it for a few years and returned with the kids grown up and Mia post op having taken on the role of matriarch of the family. The more difficult question is what it would actually be about, how a severely dysfunctional rag tag family has grown into a harmonious loving family being thrown into disarray again when Mia's past catches up with her? Yea that might work I suppose.

As it stands though it is a series I enjoyed for its non-apologetic honesty in the storytelling even if I would have liked it to focus more on Mia's internal conflict.

It could be that the producers were aware that they might only get one shot at it and thus crammed as much as they could into the 6 episodes they had to work with.