Megan Park’s Sterling Point is practically unique amid our current glut of romantically-minded YA streaming fare. Unlike basically every other recent show telling you about the summer it turned pretty, or sending its viewers frankly inappropriate XO, Kittys, Park’s show arrived on Prime Video earlier this month with absolutely no previous source material attached. No fervent following on Goodreads, no webcomic holdovers, no obsessives arriving from a previously established fandom: Just a good, interesting YA premise, executed well by Park and her cast of teens.
Which is why it’s kind of gobsmacking to report that Prime has gone ahead and ordered another season of the show, suggesting that Park has somehow cracked the magic trick of making her show a success without hordes of already-guaranteed viewers attached. This is per THR, which notes that Amazon didn’t waste a lot of time in handing out the new slate of episodes, either. (It’s been just two weeks since Sterling Point binge-dumped its whole first season onto the company’s servers.) News of the renewal was accompanied by a statement from Park, the mind behind films like The Fallout and My Old Ass; she wrote that “It’s been an absolute joy to see the appreciation and love for the show. We worked so hard to make the show as authentic as possible and to see audiences respond to that has been thrilling. We cannot wait to dive deeper into these characters and deliver the best second season ever.”
Sterling Point‘s eight-episode first season started with a clear presentation of its hook: Young New Yorker Annie (Ella Rubin) and her brother travel to Canada after their grandfather dies, only to discover not only the joys of rural living, but also a whole secret sister (Amélie Hoeferle) who they previously knew nothing about. To quote our own Saloni Gajjar in her write-up of of the series, what follows is “a welcome addition to TV’s current YA lineup of adaptations and IP-driven stories,” hitting many comparison points to shows like Dawson’s Creek and Gossip Girl without ever sacrificing its own identity. And now, somewhat amazingly, it’s going to have a chance to stretch its legs a bit and deepen its story with a second season. Wonders never cease!
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