Shogun Season 2: everything we know about the second season

‘Shogun’ took the world of television by storm. Released just a couple of weeks ago, the new FX series set in 17th-century feudal Japan depicted a turbulent civil war era, a dramatic love triangle, and plenty of action, intrigue, and drama. The show immediately captured the attention of audiences all over the world, quickly becoming recognized as one of the 10 best series in TV history.

So the obvious question became: will it have a second season? As the show is adapted from the book of the same title, did the showrunners plan for it to become something like Game of Thrones, or split the story in multiple phases?

Will there be a Season 2 of Shogun?

The short answer is a very definitive no. From the moment it was announced, Shogun has been marketed as a “limited series” for a reason, as all of the content in the source material has been used to make a full show from the start. Doing more would require the showrunners to go beyond what the classic novel by James Clavell presented, which would go against the context presented throughout its story.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Shogun co-creator and producer Justin Mark confirmed as such with the following statement: “We took the story to the end of the book and put a period at the end of that sentence. We love how the book ends; it was one of the reasons why we both knew we wanted to do it — and we ended in exactly that place.”

Marks compared the situation with building “a whole factory, and it only pups out 10 cars and closes up shop.” According to the producer, the team behind the show wrote a 900-page design document for making the show, which is almost as large as the book they’re based on, which included ways the correct ways of depicting feudal Japan, which he hopes can be used by another production eventually.

Shogun is currently streaming on Hulu in the US, and on Disney+ in certain territories around the world.