'Arcane' Season 3? Netflix TV Show Renewal Status Revealed

Arcane is currently one of the biggest TV shows on Netflix.

The League of Legends video game adaptation is currently in its second season.

Here’s a plot summary for Season 2: “The aftermath of Jinx’s attack on the Council sets the stage for new leaders to emerge, new alliances to form, and a dire escalation of the conflict between Piltover and Zaun.”

Naturally, fans are curious if and when there will be a Season 3 of the show.

Keep reading to find out more…

Sadly, Arcane will end with Season 2.

Recently, the co-creators Christian Linke and Alex Yee opened up about the series amid speculation that the show was originally planned for a five season run, which they told TechRadar was “never the plan.”

“When we started building out the story after the pilot, that’s when we were like ‘Okay, it’s going to be two seasons. It was never the plan for it to last five seasons,” they explained.

“But, what happened was – I think we had the pilot or a few episodes, but we still hadn’t had the green light for a full season. At the time, [former Riot Games CEO] Nicolo [Laurent] thought it would be really funny to pull me into a room and say ‘Hey, I know you haven’t had the green light yet, and I decided I’m not going to give it to you.’ I sat there, looking pretty upset, before he added ‘Because I’m giving you the go-ahead for five seasons!’. We both laughed…”

Alex added this was the CEO’s way of telling the team they had the studio’s support and that they would give them “a lot of runway with this.”

“Making an animated series – it has such a long development pipeline that it was a lot for us to ask them [Riot's executive team] to trust us with one season. But we also said ‘If you want there to be another season soon after that, we need to start working on it while we’re finishing the first one’. So, that five-season joke was their way of saying ‘Hey, we want to give you a lot of runway with this,’” he explained.

Christian told CinemaBlend that, while they had the studio’s support to make as many seasons of Arcane as needed, they stuck with two seasons to avoid “running out of juice.”

“We always had a specific story in mind. Look, you could have stretched it, I’m sure. But for us, it was always just like we started with this in mind. I think there’s also a personal angle to it as creatives. We’ve all seen the TV shows, where clearly the writers are running out of juice. How inspired can you stay about the same thing, for how long? It’s been nine years for us, with these characters. I think there’s a responsibility aspect to this, also, where we’re like, this is what we had in mind,” he said.

That said, there may be a continuation elsewhere.

In a League of Legends dev update earlier in the year, Christian said Arcane is “just the beginning of our larger storytelling journey” and “the first of many stories that we want to tell in Runeterra.”

Arcane Season 2, Episodes 1-3 are streaming on Netflix. The final episodes will be released on Saturday, November 16 and Saturday, November 23.

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