Everything the Cast of The Haunting of Hill House Has Said About a Potential Season 2

During a joint interview with Connie Britton in The Hollywood Reporter, it was mentioned how Britton would "never say never" to the possibility of playing a new character in her current anthology series, Dirty John. Would Gugino, who plays Olivia in The Haunting of Hill House, ever consider doing the same thing for Flanagan's series?

"Mike Flanagan said he would be interested in the notion of an anthology, where some actors come back to play different characters. I think he feels like he has told the complete story of the Crain family," she said. "But if I was invited and I was able to, I would really love to, just because I do love to collaborate with him."

Gugino went on to explain that the idea of collaborating with someone she trusts on ideas she's excited by is a rare opportunity that she doesn't want to let slip away. Fortunately for fans of the show, Flanagan — who Gugino worked with on Netflix's Gerald's Game — is just the ticket. "Finding like-minded collaborators . . . When you find one of those — and in the case of Mike Flanagan that is for sure the case — then I'm always excited about the idea [of continuing]. And [Connie and I] are also always looking for opportunities to work together, so hopefully we'll get to do that in the near future. Maybe this conversation that we're having now will spark that."

Can we count on Britton to make an appearance in season two of The Haunting of Hill House, if it does happen? We already know she can handle horrifying material thanks to her work in American Horror Story: Murder House, so let us pray.

While Gugino seems all in on the idea of a second season as long as Flanagan is, the creator is a little more hesitant to continue. One thing we do know for sure? The Crain family's story is done for good. "As far as I've ever been concerned with this, the story of the Crain family is told. It's done," Flanagan told Entertainment Weekly. "I felt like the Crains have been through enough, and we left them exactly as we all wanted to remember them . . . we really felt like the story demanded a certain kind of closure from us and we were happy to close the book on that family."

Before you fear all hope is lost, it seems Flanagan is still open to continuing the story in a different way. "I think that there are all sorts of different directions we could go in, with the house or with something completely different. I love the idea of an anthology as well," he said. "I think more than anything, the show is about haunted places and haunted people, as Steve says, and there's no shortage of either. So, there's any number of things we could do, in or out of Hill House."

Oliver Jackson-Cohen, who plays recovering addict Luke Crain, has a few specific ideas about what an anthology would look like. "They could continue on and have it a couple of years on," he told Digital Spy. "They could go back and tell the story of the Hills at Hill House, they could do an anthology. There are so many options that they can toy with here which I think makes it so exciting to be part of a show like this."

Would you want to see why the floating man ends up bricking himself into that wall in the basement? Or Poppy's descent into mania? We're already preparing ourselves for future nightmares.

Michiel Huisman's Steve is the most sceptical Crain sibling, refusing to admit that anything supernatural is going on in Hill House until the eleventh hour. Of course, that doesn't mean Huisman is done exploring all the nightmarish nooks and crannies of the haunted home. "We could go back to the house and I'm the gatekeeper of the house, maybe," Huisman theorized during a chat with Digital Spy. "Or we could do more of an anthology. I like that."