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I never wanted a Cyberpunk Edgerunners sequel, but God help me I'm going to watch it [Popverse Jump]
David is Dead but the brutality of Night City continues when Cyberpunk Edgerunners returns to Netflix.
The sequel instinct is strong in entertainment. If something worked the first time – and by “worked,” we usually mean 'made a lot of money' – then why wouldn’t studios go back to that well? It is why we have a hundred Mission: Impossible movies where Tom Cruise keeps proving the missions are just really hard, or several dozen Final Fantasy games. However, sometimes a sequel feels like the wrong choice. Sometimes you wrap up your story so neatly and so beautifully that going back feels almost sacrilegious.
That’s how I felt about Cyberpunk: Edgerunners. That ending is so perfect that, even though I love the setting and so many of the characters, I didn’t want Netflix to do anything else there. There is tragedy and love and violent rebellion against the oppressive corporations that aim to strip us of our very humanity; everything
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