‘Cape Fear’ Ending Explained: Does Max Cady Die? Will There Be a Season 2?

Cue that colossal four-note theme music: Apple TV‘s Cape Fear has thundered to its bloody conclusion. Javier Bardem’s bright-eyed, heavily tattooed psychopath Max Cady has had his final confrontation with Anna Bowden (Amy Adams) and her husband Tom (Patrick Wilson), the lawyers he blames for putting him in prison for years. Their teenage children, Natalie (Lily Collias) and Zack (Joe Anders), are once again caught in the crossfire. **Spoilers for Cape Fear, now streaming on Apple TV** Creator and showrunner Nick Antosca is adapting three classic thrillers in one with this show: John D. MacDonald’s 1957 novel The Executioners, J. Lee Thompson’s 1962 movie Cape Fear with Robert Mitchum as Cady, and series executive producer Martin Scorsese’s 1991 remake with Robert De Niro in the arch-villai