Season 2 will be next-gen exclusive
- "The Devil in Me" was released in November 2022, while the Playstation 5 and Xbox Series X released in late 2020 (two years apart), but was still released for Playstation 4 and Xbox One. Since The Devil in Me is considered the "season 1 finale", there may be a gap year between it and the first episode of Season 2, meaning that it would be released in late 2024. At this point, the previous console generation will be over a decade old and it's unlikely that new games will be made for them (even if there wasn't a gap year, and Season 2 Episode 1 released in Q4 2023, it would still be long enough that the previous console generation wouldn't have new games made for it).
- Season 2's premiere has been confirmed as "Directive 8020", but its release date and platforms haven't been confirmed yet.
O Death will be the Grand Finale of the Dark Pictures Anthology
Once Season 2 ends, there will be a spin-off, but it won't be O Death, it will be another VR rail shooter, much like the upcoming Switchback. O Death, meanwhile, will serve as the finale of the entire anthology, and the main antagonist will be none other than The Curator.The themes of Season 2
Now that Directive 8020 has been teased, and it's almost certainly a sci-fi space horror story, the other three entries in Season 2 could be (according to their names and logos):- The Craven Man: A Wicker Man-esque horror (note the "A" in the logo resembles a, well, wicker man).
- Winterfold: May be an Endless Winter story, or similar. The logo also appears to have frozen bloody fingerprints on it, maybe a "human experiment gone wrong" story?
- Intercession: Most likely a Religious Horror story (quite possibly something to do with Demonic Possession, ala The Exorcist). The word "intercession" has religious meaning, and the "t" in the logo is stylized like a cross, furthering the theory.
Season 2 will avoid hallucination and/or All a Dream twists
The controversies of Man of Medan and Little Hope may wind up having long shadows for the series as a whole.