Cal and Wade Spot 1 Herd of Icebergs Threatening Snook's Arm in Below Finale

Q: Will Netflix break its own rules to renew this limited series after that chilling deep-sea cliffhanger?

Maybe, but there is no evidence yet that Netflix will renew *Below*. Right now, *Below* remains officially a six-episode limited series, and Netflix has not announced a second season. Creator Jesse McKeown has also said he conceived it as a self-contained event series with a complete arc for Calvin Penney, even though the finale leaves a clear opening for more story. That ending is unmistakably designed to keep the door open. The final image of multiple approaching icebergs suggests either more squid nests or a broader ecological threat, and it leaves unresolved threads involving Cal and Fonda, the long-term future of Snook’s Arm, and whether Mudder was truly the last of her kind. At the same time, McKeown has framed the scene less as a traditional cliffhanger than as a warning about climate change, displacement, and corporate exploitation. Netflix has revived or extended limited series before, so doing so would not be unprecedented. But those decisions usually depend on performance, completion rates, critical response, and audience momentum after release. Since *Below* has only just debuted, there has been no time yet for Netflix to judge whether it merits expansion. So the short answer is that Netflix could renew *Below*, but it would not be “breaking its own rules” so much as responding to demand. For now, the finale should be read as an intentional open ending, not proof that Season 2 is coming.

2 articles · Updated · Mashable · Oct 8

A year after Snook's Arm drove off the giant squid and exposed the Crockers' mining scheme, Cal and Wade end the finale by finding a herd of icebergs moving toward town.
Those icebergs are implied to be new squid nests, extending the season's reveal that the original monster used an iceberg as its breeding site.
Fonda had argued the squid's offspring could not survive because warming waters were too harsh, but the finale raises the possibility that some adapted and multiplied anyway.
That would put Snook's Arm at risk of renewed attacks and contamination from squid secretions and melting nests, even as the town has begun recovering and resisting pressure to resettle.
Netflix has not renewed Below for Season 2, though the ending leaves a clear opening for the limited series to continue.