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‘Sterling Point’ Breaks the Lesbian Curse: Now Renewed for a Second Season

Bo Bragason and Amélie Hoeferle on ‘Sterling Point’. Sabrina Lantos/Prime

The lake-side teen drama officially got renewed by Prime Video.

Girls, we’re heading back to Muskoka! Prime Video announced on Thursday that teen drama Sterling Point has officially been renewed for a second season. After its debut on August 5, the eight-episode quickly became the summer’s hottest show, attracting straight and lesbian fans alike.

Created, co-showrun and executive produced by Megan Park, the original series is a lake-side summer drama filled with family secrets, Canadian nature, natural dialogue and, surprisingly, a lot of queerness. The show follows 17 year-old Annie Jacobson (Ella Rubin) as her life is turned upside down when she inherits her mysterious grandfather’s island in Canada.

There she meets her estranged secret half-sister Ramona (Amélie Hoeferle) and a gaggle of Canadian characters. Ramona and Annie turn from enemies-to-sisters as they each traverse their unknown familial secrets, budding romances and the fate of their shared island.

Ramona quickly charmed sapphic viewers with her carabiner clad jorts and wistful staring at longtime best-friend Oona (Bo Bragason). The pair navigate their feelings for one another giving fans tension, yearning, love confessions and a scarily real sapphic breakup scene.

Unlike many shows with lesbian storylines, Sterling Point‘s queerness feels less like a diversity quota inclusion and instead something that’s natural and lived in. “”It just feels like queer representation just makes sense,” Megan Park told Out. “With the show, it’s an opportunity to weave in just a layer of nuance with what is hopefully just the reality of the world today.” 

The show leaves us with Ramona, newly single, in New York and Annie, freshly coupled up with Ellis (Jacob Whiteduck-Lavoie), staying in Muskoka. Will Ramona fall in love with a Bushwick lesbian? Will Oona pine away for the girl she let go? While the second season won’t come out for a few years, fans are already anxiously awaiting what will happen to their beloved RamOona.