NBC announced Friday that it would renew La Brea for a second season after the show’s pilot was viewed by 19.8 million people to date, according to Variety. The drama aired its seven-episode first season in late September.
The series follows the separation of a family after a massive sinkhole opens up in the middle of Los Angeles and the sides attempt to find their ways back to each other. In search for answers relating to how this disaster could have occurred, the family members must deal with demons from their past while also surviving among strangers. The show quickly turns into a sci-fi drama when the survivors who tumbled into the LA sinkhole soon discover that they have landed in the city circa 10,000 B.C.
La Brea stars Natalie Zea (The Detour), Eoin Macken (The Night Shift), Jon Seda (Chicago P.D.), Jack Martin (All Rise), and Zyra Gorecki (Chicago Fire). The show is among other NBC shows that debuted this fall, including Ordinary Joe, which stars James Wolk (Zoo). The season one finale is slated to air on Tuesday, November 30 at 9/8c on NBC.
Gorecki, an amputee, told People Magazine in September that she loves being one of the first limb-different actors to become a series regular on a show of this magnitude.
“To be a person that other amputees [and] other limb-different people can look up to and say, ‘I can do that. I can do this. I can achieve my dreams,’ is a completley indesxribably feeling,” she said. “When I walked out of the theater after watching Wonder Woman, I looked at my sister and I said, “I can do anything.’ And that’s what I want to be to other people,” via People.
While no official casting statements have been made for the second season of La Brea, it can be presumed that Gorecki will reprise her breakout role.