Will High Fidelity Return? Star Reveals Where Hulu Season 2 Stands

Looks like 'High Fidelity' might not be done collecting dust after all. Da'Vine Joy Randolph says she and Zoe Kravitz still talk about how to bring the Hulu series back for a second season, despite that abrupt one-and-done cancellation.

Randolph and Kravitz are still trying to crack it

In a new chat with Rolling Stone, Randolph — now an Oscar winner — said she and Kravitz regularly kick around ideas for how to continue the story.

'Absolutely. We all feel the same way. Zoe and I talk about it all the time, like, How can we figure this out? Give it back to the people, but really give it back to us, because we just really love it.'

She is realistic about the challenge, though, admitting that revivals can be tricky because you are trying to recapture lightning in a bottle. Sometimes, she said, you have to let a thing be what it was and trust that the next great project will show up.

Quick refresher: where the show left off (and why people still bring it up)

• Premiered on Hulu in 2020 as a gender-flipped take on the 2000 John Cusack movie, itself adapted from Nick Hornby's novel.
• Zoe Kravitz played Robyn "Rob" Brooks, a Brooklyn record-store owner unpacking her romantic history; Randolph co-starred as Cherise, Rob's friend and co-worker at Championship Vinyl.
• Critics liked it, but Hulu canceled after one season.
• The finale leaves things dangling: Rob decides to try it with Clyde (Jake Lacy) instead of Mac (Kingsley Ben-Adir). Clyde ends the episode saying there is only a '9%' chance the relationship works. Roll credits, no closure.

The frustration has not exactly faded

Kravitz has been open about how much the experience meant to her and how hard she pushed to keep it going. Speaking to Elle after the cancellation, she did not sugarcoat it:

'That is where I really learned about producing and editing and writing, and man, I am sad. I keep on going back to Hulu and trying to get them to re-up it, but they will not. They are not interested.'

One more interesting nugget

Randolph never watched the original film while making the show — by design. She wanted Cherise to feel completely her own and did not want someone else’s take in her head while she built the character.

So, could a Season 2 actually happen? The desire is clearly there from the two leads, but even they admit it is a delicate thing to resurrect. If it ever does return, it will be because they kept nudging the universe — and until then, the love story sits at that very specific '9%'.