If you’ve yet to watch My Lady Jane, you’re missing out on one of the best shows of 2024—horse-husband and all. The Prime Video romantasy series takes real-life 16th-century people and events and scrambles them up, shamelessly throwing some therianthropy into the mix, and serves up a sizzling-hot historical reinvention.
This concoction is garnished with quips by an off-screen narrator, voiced by Oliver Chris, who often works to clarify the weird, gross, and unfamiliar details specific to the show’s characters and their ahistorical Tudor backdrop. But perhaps My Lady Jane’s biggest draw is the chemistry between leads Emily Bader, who plays Lady Jane Grey, and Edward Bluemel, her “Ethian” husband, Lord Guildford Dudley. Together, they’re belongs-in-a-kissing-montage-next-to-The-Notebook good.
With so much having taken place in season 1—dolphin heads on a platter; bloodthirsty elder sisters with bad hygiene and daddy issues; brooding bad boys with trauma-induced shape-shifting habits—we find ourselves salivating for another season of My Lady Jane. One glaring question remains: Shall our wish for the show’s renewal, like Lord Guildford Dudley’s human form, ever come to exist in the light of day? Here’s what we know so far.
Will there be a My Lady Jane season 2?
Unfortunately, no.
This is somewhat shocking news: the first season has received an overwhelmingly positive critical consensus, scoring a 93 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. There was considerable viral fan chatter on X (formerly known as Twitter) working in its favor, and My Lady Jane earned ample buzz. Creator and co-showrunner Gemma Burgess weighed in on the possibility of season 2 in an interview with Entertainment Weekly, teasing, “[Season 2] is always a possibility.”
But in August 2024, Deadline reported that the show would not be renewed. The decision was announced about seven weeks after the first season was released all at once on the streaming platform. Despite its popularity amongst fans, it supposedly did not bring in a broad enough viewer base.
What would My Lady Jane season 2 have been about?
Although season 1 of My Lady Jane has seemingly exhausted its source material—the first book in The Lady Janies series by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hand, and Jodi Meadows—Burgess revealed to Entertainment Weekly that, in the event of a second season, the series would expand on the world of season 1 and paint a picture of the characters “growing up and moving on and figuring out how to survive in the world where Jane is free, but the kingdom is not. Because Mary’s still on the throne. There’s a lot more work to do before things are right.”
Rising star Emily Bader agrees, revealing in an interview with Collider that she hoped her “Elizabeth Bennet-meets-Blondie”-inspired Jane will have a chance to reconcile her situation next season. “By Jane choosing to do what she does at the end with saving herself, she puts her family at risk,” she says. “They are all still there with Crazy Mary. She feels very responsible…I think badass Jane can take it up a notch.”
The series ended with space to continue, but did offer a satisfying conclusion to the love story at its heart.
This story will be updated.
