A Thousand Blows cast tease 'madness and mayhem' in season 2
A Thousand Blows is out now on Disney+ and has already stormed the charts with its gripping tale of the rise of Jamaican Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) in the boxing scene of Victorian England, and the colourful characters he meets along the way.
The good news is that anyone keen to see the story continue will get to do so because the series was commissioned for two seasons straight off the bat, with both filming back-to-back. And the cast tease to Yahoo UK that there is a lot to be excited about in the upcoming epsiodes, namely a lot more "madness and mayhem".
Season 1 ends with Hezekiah Moscow parting ways with Mary Carr, the leader of the Forty Elephants, who he came to believe was using him for her own gain. With the pair's relationship fractured and Hezekiah still grieving the death of his best friend Alec Munroe, he is at a loss of what to do next.
Hannah Walters, who both stars and executive produced the series, says: "I think it's just more of the same, just more of the madness and mayhem and emotional torment, and fun [of] everything. It's even more, I'd say. It's a journey, it's a proper journey, but it's one that you don't want to... it's a mad train you don't want to get off of."
Daniel Mays, who plays MC Punch Lewis, described season one as being "left on a knife edge", and said of season 2: "There's obviously been huge amounts of conflicts between the dynamics of the characters, and it's about really how they can repair that and move forward. It just feels like the stakes are even higher the second round."
This was a sentiment mirrored by James Nelson-Joyce, who portrays Treacle Goodson, who went on to tease: "You really see them pull together as a community, like everyone comes together in season 2 cause an outside forces trying to penetrate in and so everyone backs each other.
"And that's the beautiful thing about Season 2 is we're not warring with each other, we're all protecting one another really. It's good."
A return date has not been confirmed for A Thousand Blows, but those who finish the series will have been given a taste of what's to come with a teaser trailer for the next season. It was simply stated that the show's second season would be "coming soon" and an announcement of a date will likely be imminent.
Speaking of the collaboration with Disney+ on the series, Walters tells Yahoo UK: "Disney+ have been incredibly supportive and they saw the mileage within the TV series, which is why we got the two seasons, which is incredible for us and yeah, super exciting."
A Thousand Blows season 1 is out now on Disney+.
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