Special to End With Season 2 at Netflix
TVLine
10/03/2021
Bittersweet news for fans of Netflix’s
Special: The Ryan O’Connell comedy will end with its upcoming second season (premiering Thursday, May 20), which will expand from its original 15-minute format to eight half-hour episodes.
The semi-autobiographical series, which premiered in April 2019, tells the story of Ryan, “a gay man with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity and finally go after the life he wants,” according to the official logline. “After years of dead-end internships, working in his pajamas as a blogger and communicating mostly via text, Ryan eventually figures out how to take his life from bleak to chic and begins limping towards adulthood.”