According to Variety, The Green Veil, starring John Leguizamo (Ice Age, Spawn), has been renewed for a second season after a successful first season. The show streams exclusively on The Network, an indie streaming service rising in popularity.

The show’s first season, consisting of eight 22-minute episodes, deals with the history of oppression and prejudice in America. According to Variety, Leguizamo plays an FBI agent who is “tasked with an unraveling secret mission that threatens to expose deeper secrets.”

Variety reports that Leguizamo touched on the concerns others had about the show’s success in a statement. “Every step in the developmental process we were told this show wouldn’t work, and the subject matter wasn’t accessible to an audience that mattered,” he said. “We are pleased to have proven every executive wrong and thrilled to have the opportunity to continue telling an important story from underrepresented perspectives.”

Leguizamo partnered with Aram Rappaport (Syrup, The Crash) to executive produce and release the series on the newly launched The Network streaming service. The Network also streams the UK acquisition series Chivalry. According to Variety, Rappaport plans to release two shows every quarter, a total of eight series over the next 18 months.

According to The Network, “54% of all new users binge-watched the entire season [of The Green Veil] within 24 hours when it was available on May 21,” and the series has been seen so far by “more than 800,000 viewers.”

The Network revealed that the next season will take place around 10 to 15 years later “amidst the women’s rights movement and the occupation of Alcatraz by Native Americans in 1969.”

The Green Veil also stars John Ortiz (Will Trent, Peppermint), Irene Bedard (Pocahontas, Ralph Breaks The Internet), Hani Furstenberg (The Golem, The Bourgeoisie) and Isabelle Poloner (Law And Order: Special Victims Unit).