The show was initially billed as a limited series, suggesting that the plan was never to do more episodes. Garland has also shown a reluctance to doing sequels in the past.
Asked by Indiewire in May 2018 whether he would do a sequel to Annihilation based on another of the books from the same series, Garland said: “I’m not interested in the idea of a sequel. I feel like we made this movie and this is the movie we made.”
In a Collider interview, Garland implied he saw Devs as a closed story with no room for a Season 2. He said: “At the moment, I don’t know how to do an open-ended story. I think I probably prefer stories that end, I guess.
“Maybe it’s just as simple as that. The idea of reaching the end of Episode 8 and not concluding the story, to me, personally, would be very frustrating.”
Though it seems that Devs Season 2 will not happen, there are some signs that we will get a follow-up of sorts to the Hulu FX show. In that same Collider interview, Garland said: “I… thought that it would be an interesting thing to take what theater does, quite often, which is to have a company, and then you move around the parts within the company, and you can do a different play with the same actors.
“That’s a very interesting thing that theater does, and I think it could work in television, so I thought I’d try it.”
This seems to suggest that Garland is creating his own anthology series, similar to shows like American Horror Story or Miracle Workers, which feature many of the same actors from project to project but tell entirely different stories.
Though he may have trouble getting the schedules of some of his actors to coincide again—Devs star Alison Pill, for example, is set to be busy soon with Star Trek Picard Season 2—Garland says he is already working on this project.
Asked about its progress, the director said: “I’ve written one-and-a-half episodes. I’ve written the first episode, and I’m working on the second episode.
“I have no idea whether FX will want to make it, and I don’t know if the cast will want to do the parts I’ve written for them, so it’s all completely speculative.” Though he did not give many details about the show, he did tease it was “about civil disobedience.”
Devs is streaming now on Hulu
