My Life With the Walter Boys renewed for Season 3 after cliffhanger

Netflix’s teen drama My Life With the Walter Boys returned to the streamer on Aug. 28 with a ten-episode second season that ends on a dramatic cliffhanger and has already been pushed into a third season that is now in production. The show, which stars Nikki Rodriguez as 15-year-old Jackie Howard alongside Noah LaLonde, Ashby Gentry, Sarah Rafferty and Marc Blucas, sees Jackie’s fraught love triangle with brothers Cole and Alex collide with a sudden family emergency in the season finale.

The closing episode culminates in Jackie confessing her love to Cole, a moment Alex reportedly overhears, before the family is interrupted by an ambulance arriving for patriarch George Walter, played by Blucas. The nature of George’s condition was not revealed in the episode. Showrunner Melanie Halsall told Entertainment Weekly she intentionally built the finale to "blow a big hole in the whole family dynamic" and warned the fallout will reverberate through season 3.

Season 2’s debut generated immediate streaming traction. According to FlixPatrol, the series reached Netflix’s worldwide most-viewed chart on Aug. 29 and 30; it has since been passed by the Spanish thriller Two Graves and sits high...