Amazon has cancelled its original series The Peripheral despite renewing the show for a second season back in February.
The sci-fi series told the tale of Flynne Fisher (played by Chloë Grace Moretz), as she navigated time travel, robots, avatars, secret missions and the apocalypse.
Citing sources, Variety and Deadline reported Friday (18 August) that the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes had played a factor in the decision to cancel the show. Due to the studio’s backlog, the second series of The Peripheral would have been delayed until 2025, the publications reported.
This wasnt a ratings decision, this was a “Fuck WGA/SAG-AFTRA” decision
Yeah, it’s unfortunate. I loved the story, so it sucks.
Exactly. There were a ton of casualties like this during the last strike.
There will be more on the chopping block, all because the platforms don’t want to share the profits with the writers from the golden goose they found with the new streaming era.
Guess I won’t bother after all.
God dammit.
This doesn’t give me much hope for the Three-Body Problem on Netflix. Great series, but it’s definitely too much of a slow-burn to ever get a second season.
Cost cutting is more a peril to a streaming business than loosing money as cost cutting does not care about content.
