• The Eddy is now out there on Netflix.
• The sequence follows an American musician residing in Paris.
• This is what we learn about a doable season 2.

This spring, amidst a bevy of unique Netflix content material that includes intercourse and employed assassins and killings on overseas soil, there’s The Eddy, a sequence about … jazz! And, by some means, additionally intercourse and assassins and killings on overseas soil …. Why cannot we simply have a pleasant slice of life sequence from time to time? Jeez.

However whereas The Eddy stumbled down over-treaded, murder-sub-plot alleys, it additionally managed some moments of musical magic. These are because of some nice hand-held digital camera work, unique music, and characters performed brilliantly by a number of French actors, together with Leïla Bekhti and Tahar Rahim.

Earlier followers of Eddy 2-episode director and govt producer, Damien Chazelle, will little question acknowledge all this digital camera/jazz lovemaking. Chazelle directed each Whiplash and La La Land (and gained the Academy Award for Greatest Director for his work on the latter). The Eddy (written by Jack Thorne) permits Chazelle to principally do his factor yet again, and with a bunch of actual jazz performers. The sequence, in actual fact, options an actual band recording unique music. Not like Chazelle’s different productions, which are inclined to deal with particular person expertise, The Eddy may be very a lot concerning the group and about performing. (Not simply less-than-perfect speeding and dragging.)

The primary season runs for eight episodes. This is what we learn about potential future Eddy content material.