Netflix's 'The Ultimatum' Creator Teases Season 2 & What Fans Can Expect from LGBTQ Season

Chris Coelen, the creator of the Netflix series The Ultimatum, is opening up about the upcoming second season of the reality show.

In the series, six different couples are on the verge of marriage. One partner is ready to get married, the other isn’t quite as sure. An ultimatum is issued – and in just over eight weeks, they must commit to marriage, or move on. In the meantime, each will choose a new potential partner from one of the other couples, in a life-changing opportunity to get a glimpse of two different possible futures.

A second season has already been confirmed and it will feature an all-LGBTQ cast.

Click inside to find out what the creator said…

In an interview with THR, Chris was asked if the general situations we saw in season one will be similar to the second season.

“No, not at all. You want to put groups of people together who have something in common and who would have a genuine interest in one another,” Chris said. “This was a particular group of people who were all interested in the topic; there’s not a single person there who said, ‘I’m not interested in getting married.’ And then you have to think about, as a group of people, you want them to be able to support one another and to explore the idea of potentially being with one another. If we took two 50-year-old people, and you threw them in there, all of a sudden you’re introducing a different dynamic, which is, are the two 50-year-old people going to be interested in the 25-year-old people? So if we had a group of cast members who were more mid-30s, which is a really interesting, viable cast, to me it’s less about the ages than the fact that they’re participating in something where there’s going to be some mutual interest.”

Chris was also asked if there’s anything he wishes he could tweak in season two now that season one is out.

He said, “I honestly don’t think so. We’re already well into season two, and it’s amazing. Honestly, it’s so good — stories are so interesting. The cast of participants in season two is a very different set of participants than we saw on season one. This is a very big, common question, and a huge milestone for people who are interested in getting married. Just setting up the experience and the stakes of that, and then just allowing them to really go through this in the way that makes sense for them. It turned out to be very different, but equally as great, as season one.”

See what Nick and Vanessa Lachey revealed during the first season’s reunion episode.