“Made for Love,” the first HBO Max dark comedy starring Cristin Milioti and dependent on the novel by Alissa Nutting, is getting a Season 2.
“’Made for Love’ is funny, dark, and entirely unique,” said Suzanna Makkos, exec VP of original comedy and adult animation at HBO Max. “We are thrilled to be reuniting with this dream team of talented producers, incredible cast, and CGI dolphins to tell the next chapter of this exciting story.”
The story centers on Milioti’s Hazel Green, a 30-something who is on the pursued a decade-long, suffocating marriage with a tech extremely rich person played by Billy Magnussen, who has embedded a chip into her brain to track her “emotional data.” Hazel flees to her old neighborhood, staying at her youth home where Ray Romano, who plays her maturing single man father, has started to depend on engineered sex doll “Diane” for companionship. Dan Bakkedahl, Noma Dumezweni, Augusto Aguilera and Caleb Foote additionally star.
The series’ first season was executive produced by showrunner Christina Lee close by Nutting, Patrick Somerville, Dean Bakopoulos, Liza Chasin and SJ Clarkson. Co-executive producer Stephanie Laing coordinated six episodes, including the pilot and season finale; Alethea Jones coordinated two scenes. Vital Television Studios produces the series.
Nutting is joining Lee to showrun the second season.
“We’re thrilled we get the chance to work with our incredible cast and crew again. We would’ve announced the pick-up earlier, but it was a beast closing Diane’s deal. Everyone thinks she’s a doll but she’s a real hard-ass,” quipped Lee and Nutting.