Another germane point is that Netflix hasn’t greenlighted a sequel yet, but that possibility was the first thing I thought of when Mark Wahlberg hit the headlines this morning.
So, perhaps this will give Mark Wahlberg a movie to do while they two bros wait for the stars to realign.
It should be a heavy hitter about the opioid crisis and Berg is signed on to direct all eight episodes, so that project will certainly be more time consuming the more usual one-episode directing stint.
It’s primed for a sequel and there’s probably appetite for a sequel, but it’s worth noting Peter Berg’s next attached to the TV miniseries Painkiller, which is also set up at Netflix and will be accomplished with Eric Newman, the showrunner for Narcos.