Jennifer Lopez Says Shades of Blue Is Upping the Ante in Season 2

Jennifer Lopez and Ray Liotta sound off on what's to come in season 2

By Lauren Piester Mar 03, 2017 2:00 PMTags
Watch: J.Lo Teases What's to Come in "Shades of Blue" Season 2

If you thought Shades of Blue couldn't get crazier, Jennifer Lopez would like you to know that you're wrong. 

The first season of the NBC cop drama ended with Harlee (Lopez) making a new deal with Wozniak (Ray Liotta) before sending her daughter to live with her aunt, only to then have to kill her ex husband by snapping his neck after he tries to rape her. Somehow, season two will top that! 

"Television is a tough thing because you've gotta keep people interested, and you gotta keep the stories exciting and you gotta keep it intense and every episode after episode has to draw people back in," Lopez told E! News at the season two premiere. "We had a great time last year doing that, and this year, we up the ante. You have to." 

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"This year we have outside threats, and the FBI, and there's more going on, and there's a bigger conspiracy to all of it, so where they wind up at the end of this season, I can tell you, it's nutty," she says. 

"We pick up from right where we left off, and things get more and more intense," Ray Liotta adds. 

Breaking Bad's Anna Gunn will be joining the cast this season, and Liotta says she "adds a lot" to what's happening on the show. "She's a politician. She used to be with my crew, and we had a relationship in the past," he tells us. "She deals with a lot of good people and a lot of bad people, and we have to help her out." 

Watch the video above for more scoop on what's to come! 

Shades of Blue premieres this Sunday at 10 p.m. on NBC.

(E! and NBC are both part of the NBC Universal family.)