More wrangling of the Walter Boys by one Jackie Howard (Nikki Rodriguez) and their mother Katherine (Sarah Rafferty) lies in store as the second season of the popular YA Netflix series My Life With the Walter Boys is on its way.
Netflix swiftly renewed the show for another installment after Season 1 arrived at the end of 2023. The second season recently entered production.
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When will My Life With the Walter Boys Season 2 come out?
A release date has not yet been set for the next season, but production recently wrapped and 2025 is the anticipated year.
Is My Life With the Walter Boys Season 2 in production?
Yes! Season 2 has officially wrapped production in Calgary, Canada.
Who will be in My Life With the Walter Boys Season 2?
Returning series regulars in addition to Rodriguez and Rafferty include Marc Blucas, who plays Katherine’s husband George, Noa LaLonde who plays Cole Walter, Ashby Gentry who plays Alex Walter, Connor Stanhope (Danny Walter), Johnny Link (Will Walter), Corey Fogelmanis (Nathan Walter) and Jaylan Evans (Skylar Summerhill).
Zoë Soul will still recur in Season 2 but in fewer episodes. She plays Hayley, wife of eldest Walter brother Will (Johnny Link).
The recurring cast will include Isaac Arellanes (Isaac Garcia), Myles Perez (Lee Garcia), Alex Quijano (Richard), Ashley Tavares (Rara Jacobs), Dean Petriw (Jordan Walter), Alix West Lefler (Parker Wlater), Lennix James (Benny Walter), Alisha Newton (Erin), Ellie O’Brien (Grace), Kolton Stewart (Dylan), Mya Lowe (Kiley), Gabrielle Jacinto (Olivia), Jesse Lipscombe (Coach Allen), and Nathaniel Arcand (Mato Summerhill).
Five new recurring cast members for Season 2 include Natalie Sharp (Wilderness), Carson MacCormac (Shazam!), Janet Kidder (Star Trek: Discovery), Riele Downs (Bel-Air) and Jake Manley(The Order). Season 2 recently wrapped production in Canada and is set to premiere in 2025.
Who is behind Season 2 of My Life With the Walter Boys?
Showrunner Melanie Halsall will steer Season 2 with Ed Glauser executive producing. Jason Priestly, who directed two episodes in Season 1, will return to direct several episodes in the second season in addition to serving as producer.
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Season 2 will welcome Becky Hartman Edwards, a writer-producer who has worked on Firefly Lane, The Bold Type, Switched at Birth, Parenthood and more, as an executive producer.
What is My Life With the Walter Boys Season 2 About?
Although the author of Season 1’s source material Ali Novak just announced a sequel book to the novel My Life With the Walter Boys called My Return to the Walter Boys, this book won’t serve as a basis for Season 2.
The series took a different direction at the end of Season 1 than Novak’s novel, which hints at Jackie’s return more solidly than the end of the show, as Jackie boards a flight to New York to go back and live there with her Uncle Richard after the complicated love triangle she experiences with two of the Walter brothers.
“When you’re making a television series that you want to be returning, you have to make changes from a novel. I wanted to surprise the audience. I wanted to give the audience something a little bit different than they were expecting from the book,” Halsall told Deadline. “I wanted to leave it open-ended what Jackie was going to do and what boy she was gonna end up with,” Halsall said. “I’ve often said that maybe Jackie won’t end up with a boy but she’ll end up on her own. Maybe that’s still the case. It was a deliberate decision to make that change, and I think it was organic to the story.”
Halsall envisioned a multiple-season show from the beginning. Rodriguez applauded Jackie for choosing herself at the end of Season 1.
“Jackie’s going through a lot and she has really big dreams and goals, and so I really hope for Jackie that she doesn’t get too off track and doesn’t get too distracted and just remember what she really wants,” she told Deadline. “Ultimately, no one’s gonna look out for you the way that you would. So I think… her choosing herself is really important for people to see, and I kind of applaud Jackie for it to be honest.”
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