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The Flemish-Dutch co-production High Tides will be returning for a second season, as announced by Netflix Netherlands overnight, with production now underway as of April 2024.
This article was first published on December 14th, 2023, and was updated in April 2024.
Pommelien Thijs, Willem De Schryver, and Eliyha Altena led the cast for the new YA drama about three teens spending the summer in the Belgian seaside town Knokke hoping to find themselves.
The series is a Netflix Original, although technically, Netflix only exclusively distributes it. It first aired on VRT 1 in Belgium. Dingie is the production company behind the show.
Netflix first announced it had acquired the rights to the series in mid-November 2023, with the drama touching down on December 7th, 2023. Netflix in the Netherlands secured the rights much sooner as a licensed show back on July 20th.
Since its arrival on Netflix, it had a slow start but has since found relative success in the Netflix top 10s, with FlixPatrol suggesting the show’s popularity is growing. As of December 14th, the show has been featured on the TV top 10s in 54 countries, showing a meteoric rise in countries like Germany and France and in places like Uruguay. The show even featured in the global top 10s between December 4th and 10th, picking up 6.4M hours watched, equating to 1.1M views.
The renewal came via the Netflix Netherlands X feed that featured a video confirming the return of the show:
https://twitter.com/NetflixNL/status/1734528522339627047
The transcript for the video (translated into English) is as follows:
“Big news! Jenna! You’re not going to tell it without me, are you? No. Don’t forget about me. Elijah! Yo man, what’s up? Okay, now we’re on the air.
Don’t forget your mom, Elijah. Oh, hi Anna. Now everyone’s here.
Together… That’s good. Knock on the door, you’ll get a second season. Okay, see you on set in 2024, friends.
Bye!”
Filming Began on High Tides Season 2 in April 2024
Filming began for High Tides season 2 in April 2024, according to a post by the Netflix blog. The cast for the second season will include the return of Pommelien Thijs, Willem De Schryver, Eliyha Altena, Manouk Pluis, Ayana Doucouré, Kes Bakker, Jef Hellemans, Emma Moortgat, Anna Drijver, Ruth Becquart, Geert Van Rampelberg, Ini Massez, Pieter Genard, Jasmine Sendar and Felicia van Remoortel.
They also provided a new synopsis for the upcoming second season:
“The second season of High Tides continues after the dramatic events of the previous season, in which we follow Louise, Daan and Alex in their search for love and recognition. Will the handsome, wealthy Louise choose the sympathetic Daan, the flamboyant millionaire’s son Alex, or herself after all? Do the youngsters escape from the world of destruction in which they grew up? And do their ruthless parents still get away with everything when Alex’s grandmother comes to put things in order?”
Picture: Netflix
No release date for High Tides season 2 was announced, but we’d guess it will be either a very late 2024 release or 2025. Netflix also promised more new faces for the new season, which will be announced later.
We’ll soon be including High Tides on our list of every renewed Netflix original series. That list currently includes over 100 shows from around the globe announced to be heading back for a second, third, fourth, or other new season at the streamer.
Are you excited for another season of High Tides on Netflix? Let us know in the comments.
