There are some risks when you start watching Julia: 1) You’ll want an omelet, 2) You’ll want to cook and 3) you’ll want to devour Julia Child‘s story. Not necessarily in that order. In the build-up to this second season, there are more ‘corrections’ that were not made clear in the first, such as the reason for Paul Child’s (David Hyde Pierce) retirement and Simone ‘Simca’ Beck’s (Isabella Rossellini) jealousy, among others. But all in one delicious recipe for a perfect dish.

At this point, if you – like me – have already become addicted to the HBO Max series, you have noticed that Julia awakens our appetite for more and more about the lives of these interesting people. The proposal may even be the food, the preparation, and the innovation of creating a TV format, but in fact, the series explores much more, it helps us navigate the social issues of the 1960s, including feminism, homosexuality, civil rights, and the anti-war movement.

And this is how we say goodbye to the second year of French Chef, with Julia Child (Sarah Lancashire) being nominated for an Emmy (hello, let’s turn this into metalanguage?) and cleverly escaping the persecution of McCarthyism and the FBI. For those who have seen Julia and Julia, the recipe for “Lobster a l’Americaine” is extra nostalgic. After all, who would have thought that filming an ambitious segment on crustaceans would be so subversive?

The season was eventful for Julia, at the beginning she was in the south of France with her friend and co-author Simone Beck, she passed through Paris and even had a revealing and frustrating trip to Washington D. C. before being in “family” with her team at WGBH. An almost childish ease, certainly innocent, that transforms Julia into the most delicious escapism of the moment.

And with the conclusion we are left with the question: what now? The showrunners have already shared with Variety how they are designing the scripts, we just need HBO to confirm so we can dream about 2025. It should be soon since they have already confirmed And Just Like That and – OF COURSE – The Gilded Age, Julia has everything to continue for a while longer. Bon appétit!

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