That took less time than it takes to discover all of the ways to annoy enemies with Doctor Strange’s portal in Marvel Rivals. A week after Amazon Prime Video released the first eight episodes of its animated anthology series Secret Level, the streamer has decided to give us more twisted video game adaptations by renewing the series for a second season.
The news of the series’ renewal arrived the same day the final seven episodes of its first 15-episode season were released. Games like Mega Man, Concord, and Exodus are a few of the inspirations rounding out season 1. While no video games have been announced as inspirations for episodes in the show’s second season, Secret Level producers Tim Miller and Dave Wilson have already shared their desires to do episodes based on Pong and Fortnite.
Secret Level’s Season 2 renewal might come as a surprise to those who read the unflattering reviews of a show that currently has a 67% score on Rotten Tomatoes (whatever that’s worth). Amazon has a reply to those detractors: Men lie, women lie, numbers don’t. Reports have surfaced that Secret Level was the most-watched animated series debut in Amazon Prime Video history. Yes, that means more people watched Secret Level when it debuted than when its king of all things animated, Invincible, debuted.
It’s not hard to imagine how the allure of people’s favorite video game worlds being explored beyond the consoles and PCs would equal massive attention. But, now that the world essentially knows Secret Level’s playbook to remixing established IP (make it bloody and beautiful, for the most part), we’ll have to wait and see if they up the ante to keep viewers interested for the next levels.
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