Disney+ is giving you more Goosebumps
Disney confirmed it's renewing R.L. Stine's Goosebumps for a second season—albeit, as an anthology show with a brand new cast
Disney—usually so restrained; so demure!—is enjoying its day in the chilly California sun today at the TCA winter press tour, rolling out a number of big announcements, renewals, etc. for the world to enjoy. (Y’all saw Abbott Elementary is already renewed, right? Not shocking, but thank god.) That includes some news about its offerings over on Disney+ (even as it’s already begun the process of scavenging the streaming service when it needs, say, a Moana movie to fill out its film release schedule). That includes news this morning that the corporate mega-giant has handed out a second-season renewal to Goosebumps, it TV adaptation of R.L. Stine’s kid-aimed horror novels.
Rather than bring back the cast from the first season, though—which included Zack Morris, Isa Briones, Miles McKenna, Ana Yi Puig, Will Price, Rachael Harris, and Justin Long—the show has opted to go the anthology series route, recruiting a new set of horror-prone kids to tell a brand-new story, still based off of Stine’s work. (Which would retroactively seem to transform the weirdly Twin Peaks-y ending of the first season from a cliffhanger into a classic horror story downer, which is actually pretty fitting for the source material.) What’s interesting about that decision, to our eyes, is that Goosebumps was already pretty anthology-y in the first place, using a longform story about Long’s character being possessed to walk its characters through the plots of several of Stine’s books—but apparently you can always go anthology-er still.
Here’s the official description of the show’s second season:
Teenage siblings discover a threat within their home, setting off a chain of events that unravel a profound mystery. As they delve into the unknown, the duo find themselves entangled in the story of five teenagers who mysteriously vanished in 1994.