Forever Forever

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Has a forehead kiss ever been so sad? Season one of Netflix’s Judy Blume adaptation Forever ended with a reunion between its two lovestruck high-school graduates, the Howard-bound Keisha (Lovie Simone) and the aspiring music producer Justin (Michael Cooper Jr.), just before Keisha heads to college. She ends the season walking away from Justin while Frank Ocean’s “Moon River” plays. Even though Justin tells her “maybe they’ll be ready for each other in ten years” with a bittersweet forehead kiss, audiences won’t have to wait that long for more. Below, everything we know about the second season of Forever.

Will Forever have a season two?

Netflix renewed Forever for a second season, announcing the news at its May 14 Upfronts just six days after the series premiered. “This show was never just about first love — it was about being seen,” creator Mara Brock Akil said in a statement. “About letting teenagers be soft, complicated, and real. And the world showed up for that. Season two is our love letter back to the people who said, ‘Yes, this is for me.’ We’re honored, we’re excited, and we’re ready to go even deeper.”

What will it be about?

Mara Brock Akil is already thinking about what the next season of their lives will look like. “Who are they going to be on the other side, or during that first semester?” she said in a Tudum interview. “Howard is Keisha’s first boyfriend, let’s just be honest. I want to see who she is in this environment. For Justin, what is he going to do in this gap year, now that he’s got a direction? He needs to figure out who he is outside of Keisha.”

Forever may be based on the Judy Blume novel of the same name, but that story isn’t giving us any more clues. The adaptation already diverges in extreme ways (for one, the original is set in 1975 New Jersey, while the series is in 2018 Los Angeles). Plus, Blume never wrote a sequel to the “controversial” novel about teen sexuality.

Who’s going to be in season two?

Lovie Simone and Michael Cooper Jr. are pretty much guaranteed to be returning as Keisha and Justin, respectively, but there’s no further confirmation on casting. Keisha’s story, in particular, will have to be populated with new characters. Maybe Howard alumni Taraji P. Henson will cameo as a math professor, since she’s an expert at writing equations on blackboards from Hidden Figures.

When will it be out?

In her statement, Brock Akil promised, “Season 2 coming soon!” Nonspecific, but gives us hope that this won’t be a Stranger Things situation. We can’t wait forever.