Tubi’s Big Mood is one of the best shows of 2026.
A lot of it has to do with the lead characters. Nicola Coughlan’s Maggie is a charming mess who you can’t help but root for as she works on her mental health. And Lydia West’s Eddie is a force to be reckoned with as she fights for her home, her life, and to keep her friend afloat while ignoring her own worries. Together they tell a beautiful story about resilience, friendship, and mental health. But the backbone of this show is due to Camilla Whitehill.
Whitehill is the creator and writer of Big Mood. And coming into Season 2 she had some big challenges to take on. It’s been a year since Season 1. Maggie has had to navigate life on her own and Eddie has discovered new things about herself. And the big question going into Season 2 is how do you bring these two together again and what’s the creative process behind bringing to life these mental health conversations core to Big Mood. These are all things we asked Camilla Whitehill when we sat down to interview her for Fangirlish!
MORE: We interviewed Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West about Big Mood Season 2 and that finale! Read our interview here!
For Whitehill, the heart of Big Mood will always be Maggie and Eddie’s friendship. Because yes, Maggie being bipolar is an important part of this journey. So are Eddie’s needs and struggles. But it’s friendship that drives this story home. “I think rooting it always in their relationship and making sure it’s always about the honesty and truth of that, I think is helpful because it means you feel less like you’re writing like an issues drama and more that you’re just writing about these two people and how they interact with each other.”
In Season 2 of Big Mood Maggie and Eddie are on distinctly different journeys. Maggie has had to learn how to navigate her bipolar disorder independent of Eddie. And Eddie has had the chance to focus on herself, even if she got a little lost in someone else along the way. And we wanted to know if Whitehill had a key message she wanted to get across in Season 2. Her answer was surprising. Because she didn’t have a message.
“I don’t really work in messages. I just wanted to mess up their friendship. I wanted to do a love triangle and see what happened,” Whitehill said, alluding to the relationship between Maggie, Eddie, and newcomer Whitney. “There’s something kind of heartbreaking about when you’re really close friends with someone, you’re normally on the same page. And when you’re suddenly not, there’s like… it can feel like a bit of a rug pull.”
This leads to an unspoken tension in Season 2. Maggie is trying to be understanding of Eddie’s new journey and outlook in life. But she also yearns for the Eddie she knew before Whitney. Whitehill added, “Then there’s the added complication of Whitney there. And I just wanted to sort of… I wanted to stress test the friendship and see if it could survive that. And I thought it also provided an opportunity to kind of see these characters in a different light as well than we do in the first series.”
Then there’s the ending of Big Mood Season 2.
By this point in the series Maggie has helped pull the mask off Whitney and has shown Eddie that her new friend is actually a grifter. But this unmasking also leads to Eddie finally breaking and being vulnerable with Maggie in a way that she’s never been before. When we asked Whitehill about that final moment at Wet Mouth she said it was about radical acceptance.
“I didn’t want to make it all smooth over and [Maggie and Eddie] skip off into the sunlight, although they do literally walk off into the sunlight,” Whitehill said, “I wanted to make it a little bit more like, well, look, we’re both difficult and we have different problems that we bring into this relationship. And we certainly haven’t solved them. But we love each other. So it’s enough.”
But it doesn’t mean that this journey was linear for Whitehill when writing Season 2 of Big Mood. Because at one point she thought about breaking Maggie and Eddie up. “I wasn’t sure whether [they would stay together.] I kind of thought maybe they would break up like permanently, but then I couldn’t do that. It made me sad. So I was like no, no, I don’t want them to do that. I think that they have enough together in that friendship to like, stick it out even when it’s not great.”
And we totally agree. The bond that Maggie and Eddie have is complex but cosmic. And you don’t find friendships like that often, especially on TV. Keeping all of that in mind… we wanted to know if Whitehill had thought of Season 3 of Big Mood. The answer is a little more complicated than expected, but it makes sense.
“I go back and forth on a series three, because I kind of love where it’s come to, but I have ideas,” Whitehill said, “And so I think it would be… I think it’d be interesting to like, take a step back and maybe cover more time if I was to do a series three and sort of take them into the future. But it would have to be the right reason to do that. It’s a complicated one. I don’t know.”
If we see more of Camilla Whitehill’s Big Mood, we’ll be there. But in an industry that sometimes feels like it does season after season for money instead of it making sense for the characters, this is a refreshing and welcome take.
Big Mood Season 2 is now available on Tubi.
