Warning: Contains spoilers for The End of the F***ing World's season one finale.
As we hoped, it looks like The End of the F***ing World has reached the big audience it deserves since its premiere on Netflix.
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Its success is largely down to the two brilliant lead performances from rising British stars Alex Lawther and Jessica Barden as teen outsiders James and Alyssa, who set off on a road tip to find Alyssa's father, with Alyssa unaware that James plans to kill her.
We know of James's intentions from one of his narrations shortly after meeting Alyssa: "Alyssa was new. She'd started that term. I thought she could be interesting to kill. So I pretended to fall in love with her."
And it's in the dual narrations of the show that a major clue is hidden about where this is all leading, as well as where it could go in a potential season two.
"I'm not saying he's the answer, but he's something," Alyssa says in one of her narrations in the first episode. Notice anything different compared to James? If not, here's another: "Sometimes I worry that I ruin things. But I feel, I don't know, I feel comfortable with him, sort of safe."
Unlike our journeys into James's mind, which take place in the past tense, Alyssa's are given in the present tense, so what does this all mean?
The final scene of season one sees James running away from the police across the beach, having 'saved' Alyssa by confessing to everything. As he does, his last piece of narration kicks in, except that now it's in the present tense: "I've just turned 18, and I think I understand what people mean to each other."
It's a touching reminder that despite initially wanting to kill Alyssa, he now cares for her and would even die to protect her, and it potentially hints that everything we've heard up to this moment is him looking back on his life and the events that led him to this point.
However, given that we don't actually see James get shot, we could well get a second season if the show proves to be a hit, and it'd be pretty hard to do one without both James and Alyssa.
If that does happen, we wouldn't be surprised to find that James's past tense narration is him recounting his side of the story to the police or someone similar.
This would mean that Alyssa's narration is in the present tense because we're experiencing the events as she does, with James's narration filling in the blanks.
Or maybe the writers just wanted to play with our emotions and make us believe James had followed through on his original plan to kill Alyssa, with the whole season being a recollection of the events that led to her murder, including her point-of-view narrative.
Thankfully, that wasn't the case because, to paraphrase Alyssa, we'd have been so f**ked off if she got murdered.
The End of the F***ing World is available on All 4 in the UK and Netflix worldwide.
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Movies Editor, Digital Spy Ian has more than 10 years of movies journalism experience as a writer and editor. Starting out as an intern at trade bible Screen International, he was promoted to report and analyse UK box-office results, as well as carving his own niche with horror movies, attending genre festivals around the world. After moving to Digital Spy, initially as a TV writer, he was nominated for New Digital Talent of the Year at the PPA Digital Awards. He became Movies Editor in 2019, in which role he has interviewed 100s of stars, including Chris Hemsworth, Florence Pugh, Keanu Reeves, Idris Elba and Olivia Colman, become a human encyclopedia for Marvel and appeared as an expert guest on BBC News and on-stage at MCM Comic-Con. Where he can, he continues to push his horror agenda – whether his editor likes it or not.
