Nigeria, June 7 -- Four years after it became one of Netflix's most talked-about Nigerian originals, Blood Sisters returns for a second season with higher stakes, familiar enemies and a renewed appetite for intrigue.

Produced by EbonyLife Studios and backed by media entrepreneur Mo Abudu, the crime thriller reunites Ini Dima-Okojie and Nancy Isime as Sarah Duru and Kemi Sanya, two women whose lives became irreversibly entangled after a wedding-day tragedy.

The series was among the productions that helped place contemporary Nigerian storytelling on the global streaming map, combining the glamour of Lagos' elite with themes of abuse, power and survival.

Season 2 attempts to build on that foundation, exploring the consequences of violence...