Its first season has just dropped on Prime Video, but Scarpetta is already back on the case for another season. The ever-busy Nicole Kidman and the rest of the show’s cast have announced that the second season of the thriller series is now in production. It is an adaptation of the long-running series of mystery novels by Patricia Cornwell.

In the video, Kidman is joined by fellow Oscar-winner Jamie Lee Curtis and much of the show’s extensive cast to announce the show is back in production in Nashville, Tennessee. They express their excitement to begin production again, and Curtis exhorts the cast and crew to “LFG,” which she has to explain to Kidman. The series was given an initial two-season order when Prime Video picked it up to series in 2023. There had been numerous previous attempts to bring the Scarpetta novels to the screen, with both Demi Moore and Angelina Jolie attached to the project over the years.

What Is ‘Scarpetta’ About?

Scarpetta centers around Kay Scarpetta, Virginia’s chief medical examiner. The first season follows two parallel timelines, adapting the novels Postmortem (first published in 1990 as the first book in the series) and 2021’s Autopsy. In the past, a rookie Scarpetta (Rosy McEwen) makes her name as she tracks down a serial killer, aided by FBI profiler Benton Wesley (Hunter Parrish), cop Pete Marino (Jake Cannavale), and her older sister Dorothy (Amanda Righetti). In the present, it seems that Kay (Kidman) may have accused the wrong man, as the killer seemingly returns; meanwhile, she’s now married to Benton (Simon Baker), and Dorothy (Curtis) is married to Pete (Bobby Cannavale), with whom she has a daughter, Lucy (Ariana DeBose), who’s now a brilliant computer programmer.

Scarpetta is written and showrun by Elizabeth Sarnoff (Lost), and is executive produced by David Gordon Green (Halloween Ends), who also directed several episodes. In his review, Collider‘s Aidan Kelley hailed the show’s strong performances, but noted that the series did take “some weird left turns into some unbelievably silly territory.”

Season 1 of Scarpetta is now streaming on Prime Video, and season 2 is now in production; no release date for season 2 has yet been announced.

via Collider