Season One of Fortitude was totally watchable; can Season 2 find its way?

Simon Donald's Fortitude (Season 1) definitely held our attention throughout the 12 episodes despite some extremely gruesome and cringe-inducing incidents - it never felt forced or gratuitous, and created a great portrait of a small and isolated community, the eponymous Fortitude, an island supposedly of the north coast of Norway (actually filmed, in English, in Iceland). One unusual aspect of this series is thatwe know much more than any of the characters. W/out giving anything away, season opens w/ 2 boys finding what appears to be a carcass of a woolly mammoth, and bring a piece of jawbone home. Word gets out about this discovery, which could be of huge value - both to scientists and to ivory poachers - sending off a surreptitious treasure hunt. What we know but none of the characters learn for some time is that everyone in contact w/ the carcass - emerging from the glacier, no doubt bcz of global warming, though they don't discuss this - gets seriously ill (as it's explained, larvae or viruses in the animals cojuld be frozen for centuries only to emerge on "defrosting." So this is a crime drama, a political drama - the ambitious governor of this small island is focused on economic development and hopes to build a hotel in the glacier, a controversial if not hare-brained idea. It's a scientific narrative w/out exactly being sci-fi as there's not overtly supernatural in the concept. The pace is good - hindered sometimes, though by so many characters and plot lines - the sense of place is great: we really experience the isolation and ruggedness of the island, with one hotel-bar, one small police station w/ 4 officers, one small market, a tiny air strip, and so forth - probably not unlike life in northern Iceland, minus the tourists. The lead characters all are strong. In short, it's not a groundbreaker but Fortitude season 1 is  a totally watchable, intelligent crime drama.