Big Mood is back for a second season, and it’s an even wilder ride than the first. 

Viewers were introduced to Maggie (Nicola Coughlan) as she navigated the crises she was in as a result of her bipolar disorder, and the Tubi original used the dynamics of her friendship with Eddie (Lydia West) to showcase the highs and lows that are often associated with living with the condition as well as how it affects people in your orbit.

“When we start Season 1, and kind of throughout it, Maggie and Eddie are a team, albeit a flawed team. They’re starting from the same page,” writer and creator Camilla Whitehill told Blavity’s Shadow and Act in an interview ahead of the new season. “And in this season, they’re starting from different pages. I think that discomfort, when you’re on a different page from the person you love … someone with whom you’re normally on the same page, is really interesting and kind of sad and heartbreaking. I thought that was an interesting one.”

She added, “I was also interested in sort of flipping the dynamic a little bit from the first series and having Eddie a little bit more the one in crisis because her version of that is so different from Maggie’s. I think that Eddie is such a solutions-based person, that she is always. The way that she’s been led into sort of Whitney’s (Hannah Onslow) orbit is by being offered a solution by someone who seems so confident. And I think that she’s really susceptible to that, as someone who doesn’t really want to reckon with her own stuff. I wanted to really stress test them as friends and sort of put them in the worst position they could be in and see if they can make their way back from it.”

What is the ‘big mood’ for Maggie and Eddie this season?

“I think Eddie’s big mood would be avoidance,” West said. 

“It’s like penance in a weird way,” Coughlan said regarding her character Maggie.

Both are on a journey toward healing that looks very different from the others, but at the end of the day, what is challenged most throughout the second season of Big Mood is their commitment and devotion to one another as besties. 

Unpacking the final blow of the season

SPOILER ALERT: Maggie and Eddie get into a spat that could seemingly be hard to overcome in the season’s final episode. The biggest question is, will they be able to survive it?

“I think if there is any way forward, it has to be said because it got them where they are now — not speaking and not opening up and having that distance for a year,” West said. “It is really important, coming together, and we don’t know where it ends with their friendship. Obviously, we don’t see, there’s no Episode 7, so we don’t know what happens. But it is definitely just a lesson in communicating and opening up and changing and growing — having an open heart to change and grow with a best friend.”

Big Mood Season 2 is now streaming on Tubi.