Season One was more fun to make than I knew how to expect when all of this began.
What started with a man, a bear, and a porch became waffles, songs, mini-golf, a cellar restaurant, a hyena with volume-control issues, and a growing family of creatures who kept finding reasons to come back.
Somewhere along the way, Porchlandia stopped feeling like a story I was writing and started feeling like a place I was discovering.
Season One is complete now, but it was only the beginning.
It gave us the first chair, the first meal, the first song, and the first small gathering of people and creatures who discovered that the porch might have room for them too.
Season Two is currently in production, with plans for it to begin in September of 2026.
I have also been working farther ahead in the story than readers will see for quite some time. That may seem like an unusual way to build a series, but it has become clear that Porchlandia needs its future understood before every part of its present can be written well.
The scope of the story has grown beyond what I imagined when I began.
I am deliberately going to leave that sentence unexplained.
Part of the joy of Porchlandia is discovering it in the order the story chooses to reveal itself. I do not want to stand outside the tale pointing toward doors that have not opened yet. I would rather let you reach them with the characters and wonder what might be waiting on the other side.
What I can say is that Season One was not a complete map of this place. It was an invitation to sit down.
August will be a quieter month on the site while I work on the seasons ahead and make sure the next part of the story receives the care it deserves. The porch may look still from the road, but there is a great deal being built where visitors cannot see it yet.
I am grateful for every person who stops by.
Every person who reads a story.
Every person who listens to an episode or a song.
Every person who shares the website, sends someone the podcast, or tells a friend, “You might like this strange little place.”
Porchlandia is still young, and its audience is still small. But every visit matters to me because every visit means someone found the porch and stayed for a while.
Thank you for doing that.
Thank you for giving these characters your time.
Thank you for helping this place exist outside the room where it was made.
Season Two is coming. The story is growing. The porch is still here.
And beside me, the Bear is still listening for what comes next. 🐻🕯️
-Brent
