Boss Offers #Bemmett Update: Will a Long-Held Secret Keep Bobbie and Emmett Apart in Season 2?

Happy’s Place stopped short of making Bobbie and Emmett an item in Season 1 — and it’s beginning to sound like it’ll be a while before they make things official in Season 2.

When TVLine hopped on Zoom with series co-creator Kevin Abbott in March, he revealed that it was originally his plan to have real-life lovebirds Reba McEntire and Rex Linn play a couple on screen by the end of the NBC comedy’s freshman run. Alas, “we only had 13 episodes originally ordered. We were putting some pieces in place, just in case, but we didn’t know if we were going to get a back order, or how many [episodes] it was going to be if we did,” the EP explained. “Ultimately, we got the pickup — a back five — after we’d wrapped the first 13 [and] I just didn’t feel like I could successfully build the relationship to the point where I wanted it to be by the finale…. When we get there, I want the audience to feel really satisfied.”

Five months later, when TVLine caught up with the showrunner during a recent NBC press day, he warned that there will be at least one more obstacle that stands in the way of their budding romance — and it sounds like a big one.

“We’re going to continue to explore the Bobbie/Emmett relationship,” he promised, but “one of the impediments to that is that Emmett holds a secret. I’m not going to tell you what that secret is, but he has one, and it’s, I think, a very interesting one.” Hmm….

While Abbott was hesitant to reveal too much more about Season 2, he did promise that new episodes will see Melissa Peterman‘s Gabby continue on her quest to have a child, while Isabella, whose circumstances have changed “drastically” since she found out that she had a half-sister, will be going through something of an identity crisis, asking: “Who am I now?”

Happy’s Place Season 2 premieres Friday, Nov. 7, with back-to-back episodes starting at 8/7c on NBC; a trailer has not yet been released. In the meantime, hit the comments and let us know what skeletons you think Emmett might have in his closet. (With additional reporting by Dave Nemetz)