I don't like spoilers so have done no digging but did hear from an interview with Emily Beecham it's gonna be 20eps! Or was it 28? Either case bigger than s1-2 combined! Imagine it's gonna have a much bigger scope than just the Badlands and the outlying territories though the cast already hold their own as it is!

I heard about the series being a western set martial arts romp that is violent and gory, sounded good. My main means to watch newer tv shows had it but I dismissed it as yet another Donnie Yen media (Am SICK OF HIM) and mistook Daniel Wu on the cover as him (EASY mistake!) but am glad I started watching it, I binged the first series in 1 sitting and finished the 2nd within 2 days. While too many people bang on and on about Game of Thrones, as good as that show is it's terribly overrated and hands down last year my best show was Into the Badlands! I like the fantasy setting and all usually over sci-fi but terms of fighting definitely prefer kung fu over the rest and Badlands though set in the west does not disappoint that regard! It's what Mortal Kombat live action should have been. (Though I did like Mortal Kombat Conquest)

Besides it ticking the boxes for action and violence and not dragging on the way Walking Dead has over the years, the drama with the cast is very good also and the characters are intriguing that I got invested in them, even the malevolent maniac Quinn! With all the bloodshed the Badlands has as a way of life the politics with the baronies, the barons trying to get one over each other and the plotting and manipulations... It has something for everyone not least the mystery with Azra, the dark power and the abbots... So it's like a post apocalyptic version of Starz' recent Spartacus though without the sex, nudity but certainly enough violence mixed with martial arts and some special powers, they compared it to the chinese (And Japanese you could say have their own form albeit more childish cough Dragonball) genre of wuxia, fantasy martial arts (Where people fly casually, can blast chi like how they do in games etc and it's not so common in the western media. (All about superheroes or magic and swords but the characters in western fighting cinematography as any fan of kung fu flicks know have always lacked the substance and style of the east that Hong Kong cinema popularised)

Anywho I rambled more than intended but this is a really good show I highly recommend! Got my dad to watch most of it recently, though his english isn't good he is enjoying it. Well it's just betrayal if chinese people don't like kung fu isn't it hehe... Looking forward to season 3!

Just to add I also am glad there's no guns in this show to ruin the martial arts, although it would be great if the martial artists are such a level that guns are toys compared to their skills. That's very common in comics and cartoons but for live action barring stuff like the Matrix it's not as common as I'd like.