Netflix has renewed Big Mistakes, the Dan Levy and Rachel Sennott crime comedy whose Season 1 finale streamed quietly into the Memorial Day weekend and then refused to leave the streamer’s top-10 chart. The Season 2 pick-up call landed in mid-May. Levy and Sennott, the show’s co-creators, confirmed it Sunday morning. The 10-episode second season is scheduled to begin production in Toronto in February 2027.
The show, which premiered on April 9, follows Nicky (Levy), an openly gay Toronto pastor, and his sister Morgan (Taylor Ortega), as they’re blackmailed into the world of organized crime by a debt-collection scheme tied to their late father’s gambling. The ensemble carries the show across nine episodes of escalating moral compromise, then closes Season 1 on a finale that, by Levy’s own description in interviews, was “the absolute hardest thing we have ever shot.”
Laurie Metcalf, who plays the siblings’ Sicilian-American mother Linda, has been the season’s runaway critical darling. Variety’s Daniel D’Addario, in a review that called the show’s plot “lacking”, nevertheless wrote that Metcalf turns three minutes of Episode 4 into “the best work she has done since the third season of Roseanne.” The Hollywood Reporter agreed. Two of the four Emmy bloggers who weighed in over the weekend now have Metcalf pencilled in for a 2026 Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy nomination.
The supporting ensemble Netflix retains is the kind of bench prestige cable wishes for. Elizabeth Perkins plays Annette, the priest’s-housekeeper-turned-drug-mule who anchors a five-episode subplot the second half of the season is largely built on. Abby Quinn is Natalie, the younger sister hospitalised in the pilot. Mark Ivanir plays the show’s chief antagonist, a low-level Toronto enforcer named Ivan whose Episode 9 cliffhanger sets up Season 2’s premise.
Netflix’s Big Mistakes renewal also closes a tight back-to-back winter the streamer had been quietly nervous about. After A Man on the Inside Season 2 underperformed in February and Apartment 3F failed in March, the streamer needed Big Mistakes to land. The viewing numbers, by Nielsen’s mid-May report, leveled at 11.4 million hours of viewing in its premiere week and held, at 6 million weekly hours, through the Memorial Day binge bump.
The renewal news sits alongside this week’s wider streaming-renewal cycle. Apple TV+’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles also picked up Season 2. Apple confirmed Shrinking Season 4 with a deliberate time jump. Disney+ locked X-Men ’97 Season 2 to a July 1 premiere. Streaming’s mid-2026 cycle, by Netflix’s own framing in the Big Mistakes press release, is one of the most active in the platform’s twenty-eight-year history.
According to The Hollywood Reporter’s review, Big Mistakes does its best work when it lets the ensemble drive scenes and its worst when the plot has to do anything. The trade’s Daniel Fienberg flagged the writers’ Levy-and-Sennott confidence in dialogue and a corresponding lack of confidence in mystery-genre infrastructure. The Season 2 fix, per Levy in a Sunday-morning Instagram Live, is structural: “We are writing a tighter plot now. That is the thing.”
The Season 2 production schedule starts in February 2027 in Toronto. All Season 1 cast members are confirmed returning, except for one Episode 9 character Netflix is keeping quiet about. The writers’ room reconvened in early June. The likely Season 2 premiere window, by Netflix’s own internal release calendar, is October 2027. The streamer has, in the meantime, posted Season 1 to its top-10 carousel and — by Sunday afternoon — had it in the top three again.
