Home Before Dark continues Apple TV+'s streak of letting its original content flourish, returning for a second season on June 11. The new set of 10 episodes open up another mystery for the precocious young Hilde (Brooklynn Prince, The One and Only Ivan) to investigate, but it also makes sure to tie back to the Richie Fife case that occupied so much of her time in Erie Harbor last season.

Hilde and her family are much more settled in their community this time around - especially her dad Matt (Jim Sturgess, Hard Sun), who had the hardest time returning to his childhood home - but the secret corruption that inhabits their town hasn't lessened. This surprising series about how insightful children can be at any age is inspired by the real-life story of Hilde Lysiak, who founded a family newspaper at 8 years old that she eventually used to investigate neighborhood crimes.

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Series creator Dana Fox spoke to Screen Rant about crafting an authentic story from Hilde's perspective, as well as being respectful and accurate when exploring issues of race and class within the world of the show.

I love how the show never talks down to Hilde, and even the camera is level with her to show things from her perspective. How do you approach that as the creator?

Dana Fox: I feel like you really see us; that's so amazing. In season 1, when Jon Chu and Alice Brooks, who's our incredible DP that also worked with him on In The Heights, were talking about how we wanted the show to look. And we just kept saying over and over again, "This has to stay in Hilde's perspective. We have to be seeing this from Hilde's perspective, because that's what makes this show special and different from other shows." So, it was totally intentional. We worked on that a lot.

I think, for me, the important thing was that I really wanted to take kids as seriously as I took myself when I was young. And I always thought, "Well, why is everybody treating me like I'm a baby? Obviously, I'm like an adult. I'm a very small adult." So, I did want to see kids treated the way I always wanted to be treated when I was younger.

And most of the kids I know in my life are kind of extraordinary. They're casually extraordinary, and I think the people that end up letting them down are the adults around them; that we start to feel like, "I don't want them to get their heart broken, so I have to tell them that they can't have their imagination, or they can't care too much about this thing, or they can't reach too high, because then their heart will be broken." We sort of try to keep them down.

But actually, I wanted to show a family that nurtures the way that the real Hilde's family nurtures her; the way that the real Brooklynn's family nurtures her and says, "Yeah, you can do whatever you want. How can we support you? What can we do to help?" That's the vibe of the show, for sure. I'm so glad you got that.

Home Before Dark - Brooklynn Prince and Aziza Scott

Another dynamic I love outside of the family is with Trip. How does that team-up with Hilde change in season 2 now that she's Sheriff? And yet at the same time, we know the storyline is leading them back together.

Dana Fox: Yeah, I think that we saw how good they were together last season. We really loved it, and we wanted to lean into it more. We also thought it was a really interesting thing to try to watch a woman of color become the sheriff in a small town that had a history of racism, as you discovered from the first season. And what all that entails, and how difficult that is, and how hard she has to work to get people to take her seriously and to work with her.

We started that storyline long before the Black Lives Matter movement kicked up as much as it did, thankfully, and it ended up feeling like an important thing to look into. To not, say, talk about it in a preachy way - because I never want to say I know the answer to anything - but just in a way that shows a black female character in a position of power, and how difficult that actually is for her but how much she ultimately ends up succeeding because she chooses to find her own power in herself.

And we really look to Aziza a lot, who's incredible, to tell us what she would feel like. Because I didn't want to put words in her mouth, or say that I could possibly know how that felt. The writers on our staff did an incredible job, and Aziza was so helpful with that as well.

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Home Before Dark 's second season premieres June 11 on Apple TV+.