5 Cliffhangers The Beast in Me Season 2 Can't Ignore

Spoiler alert: I am about to talk through the ending of The Beast in Me in detail. If you have not finished Season 1, save this for later.

Netflix dropped The Beast in Me on November 13, 2025, and the finale goes full whiplash: Nina (Brittany Snow) secretly records Nile Jarvis (Matthew Rhys) confessing to multiple murders, which gets him hauled off in cuffs. Then he turns up dead in prison under murky circumstances. Aggie (Claire Danes) walks free. And the last shot? Nina staring at her newborn, terrified the kid may have inherited Nile's particular brand of darkness. It is chilling, effective, and very much a 'we're not done' kind of ending.

So... what exactly did that ending mean?

Aggie publishes her book, also titled 'The Beast in Me,' and finally admits what Nile did to her headspace and how far she let it go. Showrunner Howard Gordon put it pretty bluntly to Time:

"It really is about a squaring with herself, a narrative that she's told herself and the price of that, which she again says in her own book, confessionally, I'll have to live with the fact that I have now been part of taking a son from another mother."

The show leaves us with Aggie closing a drawer on her painstakingly organized 'Jarvis Legacy' file. Symbolically, she is choosing peace. Practically, she is keeping the file right there if she needs to open that door again. It is a neat little visual wink.

What the finale sets up next

• How far will Aggie go now that Nile is gone? With Nile dead, she is technically out. But finishing her book and shutting that file does not erase the voice in her head. If Season 2 happens, she could either stay out for once or decide she cannot resist digging back in.
• Where does Shelley fit after the fallout? Aggie's ex-wife Shelley (Natalie Morales), an abstract painter, spends the season clashing with Aggie over how they grieve their son and over Aggie's Nile fixation. In the finale, Shelley shows up to Aggie's book launch with a new partner. They are cordial, separate, and complicated. There is room to explore a supportive-but-distant dynamic as Aggie faces whatever comes next.
• Does Nina return with a bigger arc? Nina gets the cleanest victory: her recording exposes Nile, saves Aggie, and ends the immediate threat. But that final beat with her baby is the show being cheeky and cruel at the same time. A time jump where Nina wrestles with whether her child inherited Nile's 'beast' could be both horrifying and thoughtful if they go there.
• What really happened between Aggie and her father? Aggie first broke out as a writer with a book about her con-man dad, a guy the show flat-out describes as a swindler. Gordon told TV Insider there is still meat on that bone:

"As long as Aggie is still roaming the planet and is a writer, I think there probably is a story there."

That is basically a green light to pull Aggie into a mess tied to her father's criminal past.

What new crime could pull Aggie back in? With Nile dead and the Jarvis family's grip loosened, the core case is technically solved. But there are two obvious avenues: Aggie's father as the next mystery, or fallout from the monstrous Jarvis real estate empire that is still very much alive thanks to Uncle Rick's fixers. Either path fits the show's wheelhouse: morally messy people orbiting a very bad legacy.

Bottom line

Season 1 ends in a way that feels conclusive enough to be satisfying, but not so tidy that the writers have painted themselves into a corner. There are already whispers about a second season, and there is plenty to mine if Netflix orders it. What did you make of the finale? Drop your take below.

The Beast in Me is streaming now on Netflix (US).