Robin Wright Teases The Girlfriend Season 2: Here’s What It Would Take
After that jaw-dropping finale, fans want to know if Prime Video’s The Girlfriend will return. Robin Wright, the show’s lead, executive producer, and director, has weighed in on the chances of a Season 2.
Prime Video dropped The Girlfriend, people inhaled the finale, and then immediately started arguing about what they just saw. Now Robin Wright — who not only stars as Laura but also executive produced and directed — is weighing in on whether Season 2 is actually a thing that could happen.
So... is Season 2 happening?
Short version: nobody knows, including Wright. She told The Hollywood Reporter that the show is firmly in the land of streamer decision-making limbo, where you wait for executives to decide the what/why/when/how. Translation: there is no movement yet, and it may be a minute.
"I truly don’t know."
"Keep wondering!"
That last line was her answer when pushed on whether Laura is actually dead. She is absolutely enjoying the speculation.
About that finale everyone is arguing about
The Girlfriend adapts Michelle Frances' 2017 book, but with a major swerve. In the novel, Cherry dies. The series flips it: Laura ends up underwater in the final stretch after son Daniel (Laurie Davidson) inadvertently causes his own mother’s death. Or does he? The show cuts away before giving a definitive answer, which is why half the internet is playing forensics on a fictional drown scene.
Wright says that ambiguity is the point. She’s heard all the theories — maybe Laura was resuscitated, maybe Daniel let her go — and she likes that viewers are stuck filling in what the show deliberately leaves offscreen.
If this was the ending, Wright is good with it
Wright says the season functions as a complete story. If Prime Video never orders more, she’s totally fine closing the book here. She also shouted out the crew for building the whole puzzle-box of a season with her, noting she’s only as strong as the team around her and she couldn’t have pulled it off without them.
- The setup: Laura (Robin Wright) vs. Cherry (Olivia Cooke) over Daniel (Laurie Davidson) — a tense triangle that escalates fast.
- Book vs. show: the novel kills Cherry; the series leaves Laura’s fate dangling after that drowning.
- Status check: no Season 2 greenlight, no timeline; it’s up to Prime Video’s execs.
For what it’s worth, The Girlfriend has already cracked Prime Video’s global Top 10, which never hurts when you’re trying to convince a platform to keep the lights on. For now, though, Wright is comfortable leaving both Laura’s fate and the show’s future in the air — and yes, you can absolutely close the story out as-is.