14 cancelled Netflix shows that everybody wants back | 16865J3 | 2024-03-17 21:08:01
Netflix commonly hooks viewers into their new favourite exhibits and night binge-watch obsessions… before swiftly taking it all away.
TV followers have been left outraged through the years when successful collection comes to the streaming platform before abruptly being cancelled, typically after just one season.
From beloved crime thrillers to superhero epics, fans have been scrambling to social media to beg Netflix for more episodes of their long-lost faves, even going so far as launching petitions for their cause.
Alas, these pleas go unheard leaving us to lament what might have been.
Critically acclaimed exhibits and hidden gems have all referred to as prey to the Netflix graveyard – and these are 13 collection many need to see resurrected for our screens.
Mindhunter
David Fincher's crime serial, about two FBI agents (Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany) working in the Behavioural Science Unit in Virginia, provided a tense perception into the psychology of serial killers.
However regardless of plans for a 3rd collection the show abruptly ended after just two seasons, with Fincher hinting that Netflix had pulled the plug somewhat than the decision to finish it being his. 'I'm very pleased with the primary two seasons,' the director advised Forbes in 2023.
'Nevertheless it's a very costly show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we didn't appeal to sufficient of an viewers to justify such an funding'.
Given how many individuals need one other collection the audience may be larger than he thinks.
Lockwood & Co
This supernatural thriller, set in an alternate Britain the place teenage ghost-hunters are referred to as in to guard adults from lethal spirits, made its debut in January 2023, only to vanish as shortly because it had arrived.
Yep, Netflix cancelled the show after just one collection, with declining viewing figures blamed for the choice – and fans left furious.
'I'm in my rabid fan era and I'm still salty about Netflix's choice to cancel Lockwood & Co so more shade tweets to return,' one individual stated at the time.
One other added: 'I'm so sick of beginning one other present, getting hooked up to it, only for it to be cancelled. I actually need somebody to #SaveLockwoodandCo.'
The Irregulars
Loosely impressed by the works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, The Irregulars centres on a gaggle of teenagers dwelling on the streets of Victorian London, who work for Sherlock Holmes' sidekick Dr Watson solving increasingly supernatural crimes.
It debuted to respectable evaluations and even higher viewing figures in 2021 – even beating Disney Plus' The Falcon and The Winter Soldier within the scores at one point – however nonetheless didn't get a second series from Netflix, although no cause was given as to why.
To make issues worse the primary season ended on a cliffhanger, with Sherlock Holmes (Henry Lloyd-Hughes) despatched to a different dimension together with his associate Alice (Eileen O'Higgins).
Guess they'll be stuck there ceaselessly then…
GLOW
In contrast to a number of the others on this listing, GLOW – a fictionalised account of the real-life Beautiful Women Of Wrestling within the 1980s – did get a good crack of the whip, operating for 3 seasons.
Nevertheless, plans for more were shelved in 2020, with Netflix pulling the plug on a planned fourth collection simply weeks after it started filming.
Creators Liz Flahive and Carly Mensch blamed the decision on the pandemic. 'COVID has killed precise people,' the pair stated in a press release to Deadline.
'It's a nationwide tragedy and ought to be our focus. COVID also apparently took down our present. Netflix has decided not to end filming the ultimate season of GLOW. We have been handed the artistic freedom to make a sophisticated comedy about ladies and tell their stories. And wrestle. And now that's gone'
I Am Not Okay With This
Another graphic novel adaptation which didn't take off, I Am Not Okay With This targeted on teenager Sydney (Sophia Lillis) navigating the trials and tribulations of high school whereas dealing with her family, her budding sexuality and the sudden improvement of mysterious superpowers.
It ran for one collection before getting the chop in 2020 – with the pandemic taking plenty of the blame.
Creator Jonathan Entwistle stated: 'We just realised that to Covid-proof the present was going to value much more cash. I do assume once they have been taking a look at all the finances, the present was costlier than they figured it was value doing'
The OA
Followers of this thriller drama have been clamouring for an additional collection ever since it got here to an end in 2019 – however all the #savetheOA hashtags on the earth have sadly but to end in one other collection.
The present, which stars Brit Marling as a young lady who disappears for seven years, solely to return residence with mysterious new talents, remains so widespread that even its cast has lamented its cancellation.
'Pathetic this, we have been all crying collectively, me and the creators,' co-star Jason Isaacs beforehand advised Sunday Brunch.
We reside in hope that it might at some point make a comeback.
Santa Clarita Food regimen
Another show whose cancellation led to outrage from followers, Santa Clarita Diet stars Drew Barrymore as an actual property agent whose quiet life in the titular California metropolis is turned the wrong way up when she is by chance was a zombie – full with the inevitable taste for human flesh.
News of the present's cancellation got here just after the third collection was launched on Netflix in March, leaving fans shocked – and leaving the collection itself on an enormous cliffhanger that may now by no means be resolved.
Until they convey it back that is.
Teenage Bounty Hunters
Another one-season marvel, Teenage Bounty Hunters starred Maddie Phillips and Anjelica Bette Fellini as two faculty women that occurred to turn out to be in a single day bounty hunters – solely to land an task that fell a bit of too near house.
We'll never learn how things may need progressed though because the second collection by no means materialised, leaving fans bereft.
'What's the point of even having a subscription when you're just gonna maintain cancelling all the great exhibits?' one individual commented at the time.
They've some extent.
White Strains
Viewers beloved this thriller, a few younger lady (Laura Haddock) getting caught up in an entire heap of hassle after investigating her brother's disappearance in Ibiza – but they're not getting another serving to.
Although no official reason has been given for the lack of second series, forged members have steered that the present isn't getting one because of the ending of the primary collection resolving all its unfastened ends.
'Will there be a collection two of White Strains? I don't assume so,' certainly one of its stars, Angela Griffin, defined in 2021.
'My gut feeling is that it was left in a spot the place it's properly tied up. I feel that is where it will keep.'
Norsemen
This Norwegian Viking parody won't be the best-known present on the streaming platform, however it still has loads of fans who would like to see it return.
The show, set in the yr 790, follows the lives of a gaggle of Vikings dwelling in the fictional village of Norheim, with day-to-day life unfolding to varying comedic degrees.
It was filmed in both Norwegian and English, with every scene of every episode filmed twice, to add to the fun.
But whereas three seasons have been made, the Viking axe fell on the show in 2020, much to the annoyance of fans – who have even set up a petition to convey it again to screens
Jessica Jones
Netflix lost a whole bunch of Marvel shows in 2019, with Jessica Jones – which starred Krysten Ritter because the eponymous ex-superhero turned personal investigator – amongst those which faced the chop, three seasons after it began.
To make matters worse the show additionally vanished from Netflix altogether after Disney regained the license for them.
When you have Disney+ you'll be able to nonetheless watch this one, but a new collection looks like an unlikely prospect at this stage.
Anne With An E
This Canadian drama based mostly on Lucy Maud Montgomery's basic novel Anne Of Inexperienced Gables, made it so far as three collection before being axed – leaving followers of the show horrified.
A petition for a fourth collection sparked over 1.7 million signatures on Change.org – whereas Canadian network CBC acquired so many messages on unrelated information posts from viewers begging for an additional collection that they had to make use of some judicial use of the block button.
Finally though, fans have been unsuccessful because the much-longed-for fourth collection has yet to materialise.
The Punisher
One other casualty of the 2017 Marvel cull, The Punisher ran for just two series earlier than dealing with the axe – with the suggestion at the time that viewing figures for Netflix's Marvel exhibits have been disappointing.
Jon Bernthal, who played the present's essential character, vigilante Frank Fort, took to Instagram with an emotional submit at the time, saying: 'To all who've served. All who know loss. All who love and perceive Frank and his ache.'
As with different Marvel collection, now you can catch it on Disney+.
Sense8
For those who're unfamiliar, Sense8 follows eight individuals around the globe who're linked telepathically and go looking for answers behind their connection.
It was successful with viewers when it debuted in 2015 but lasted just two short seasons earlier than vanishing for good – with the ever-present lack of viewing figures blamed.
Netflix's co-CEO Ted Sarandos stated at the time: 'The viewers was very passionate, however not giant sufficient to help the economics of one thing that huge, even on our platform'.
Given it's been gone for seven years now, we sense even petitions gained't be bringing this one again.
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