Here’s Everything We’ve Heard About Whether or Not ‘The Company You Keep’ Is Getting a Season 2
ABC’s hottest new drama is The Company You Keep. This show has it all: spies, sex, cons, luxury hotels, and, of course, Milo Ventimiglia and Catherine Haena Kim. The actors star as a con man and an undercover CIA officer whose romantic spark gets in the way of their professional duties.
The series is an adaptation of a South Korean series titled My Fellow Citizens!. Taking your typical rom-con (get it?) story a step further, The Company You Keep tells the story of two families. Charlie Nicoletti (Milo Ventimiglia) is a con man leading a family of con artists, working alongside his sister and parents to take money from the worst among us—noble, Robin Hood–esque criminals, if you will. Emma Hill (Catherine Haena Kim) comes from a powerful political family, dubbed “the Asian American Kennedys,” her father a former governor and her brother a senator.
When the pair of legally crossed lovers meet in a hotel bar, Charlie has just been dumped and out-conned by his fiancée and Emma has just learned her partner has been having an affair. They spend the weekend together at the hotel, drinking, flirting, and presumably not sleeping. They go their separate ways, but it’s not long before they meet again, this time at a political gala. Charlie is there to (you guessed it) orchestrate a con, and Emma is there (you guessed it again) with her family. From there, the pair’s connection becomes impossible to ignore, kicking off a season-long game of cat and mouse as they work through their unusual work-life balance.
Will this be more than a one-season wonder? Here’s what we know.
So, Will There Be a Season 2 of The Company You Keep?
In short, it’s too soon to say. The critical reception to this show has been a mixed bag, with some viewers saying “push through the first two episodes.” Those first two episodes are used to set up the world of con men and federal agents, making room for romance and thrills to come. Even the harshest critics of network television agree that this show has potential.
All that said, ABC has yet to announce anything about the future of this series, be it a renewal or a cancellation. Of course, we are only three episodes into the show, so we can all appreciate ABC not cutting the series prematurely.
The future of the show exists not only in the romance between Charlie and Emma but also in the political, Kennedy-esque storyline at play. On the con side, the show is a classic procedural, giving us a new con each week. The needle that threads the season together is the political drama, namely the senatorial reelection race for Emma’s brother. As that story continues to unfold, we will get a much clearer picture of a second season (and if we even need one).
The first three episodes of The Company You Keep are available to stream on ABC.
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