Max Orders Season 2 Of Polish Breakout ‘The Eastern Gate’ & Outlines Slate Ambitions: “We Always Look For The Zeitgeist”

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EXCLUSIVE: The Eastern Gate will open again on Max. The Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) streamer has ordered a second season of the drama, which stars Lena Góra and Karol Pocheć, with a script already in development.

The news came during a wide-ranging interview with Dorota Eberhardt, VP of Programming at WBD in Poland, during which she discussed content spend for 2025 that we understand is in the eight figure range, addressed local competition and talked about the impact of shows such as Netflix’s Adolescence.

The Eastern Gate‘s recommission should come as no surprise, given its outsized impact for WBD streamer Max, where it has set several records.

Tapping into concerns around the precarious political environment in Europe, the series is billed as “a modern espionage game amid brewing international conflict and rising tensions.” It is set in the spring of 2021 and follows the story of Polish spy Ewa Oginiec (Góra), who after a personal tragedy plans to quit the intelligence service and start an ordinary life, but is derailed when Russian operatives expose her partner (Pocheć), who disappears without a trace.