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‘The Rig’ Creator Talks Entertaining Over Educating & Expanding Precincts For Season 2

'The Rig' Amazon creator David Macpherson has said Season 2 expansion is like 'Alien' to 'Aliens', and talked climate change and oil rigs.

Here, the trapped crew must deal with the emotional and physical fallout of the devastating tsunami that destroyed the Bravo, and contend with swirling conspiracies, corporate conflicts, and new threats from the dark depths of the world’s ocean. The expansion was helped along by Line of Duty director John Strickland, who joined Season 2 and brought a “focus on story and character” along with being “very very good on the technical side of things,” according to Derek Wax, who runs Banijay-backed The Rig producer Wild Mercury Productions. His focus and knowhow on the environment is drawn from multiple places, including a former role as a climate policy advisor to a non-profit, a job woking for the Scottish government and his father being an oil worker.

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