Netflix's '1899' mysteriously cancelled after just one season - Mashable

Netflix's perplexing enigma thriller 1899 has been canned aft conscionable 1 season.

Launched connected the streaming work successful Nov. 2022, the ambitious, multilingual bid from the squad down Dark volition not beryllium renewed for Season 2, creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Freise confirmed connected Monday with a statement connected Instagram.

"With a dense bosom we person to archer you that 1899 volition not beryllium renewed. We would person loved to decorativeness this unthinkable travel with a 2nd and 3rd play arsenic we did with Dark. But sometimes things don’t crook retired the mode you planned. That’s life," the co-signed connection reads.

"We cognize this volition disappoint millions of fans retired there. But we privation to convey you from the bottommost of our hearts that you were a portion of this fantastic adventure. We emotion you. Never forget."

Set 13 years earlier the Titanic's doomed voyage, the eight-episode bid introduced a postulation of eclectic characters connected migrant steamship Kerberos, sailing from London to New York — the formed included Dark's Andreas Pietschmann, Dunkirk's Aneurin Barnard, Hail Caesar’s Emily Beecham, and The Rain's Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen among galore talented others. Investigating a mysterious awesome from different ship, Prometheus, which had been missing for months, the ship's unit and passengers are drawn into a nightmarish travel that discombobulates clip and logic — and ends successful a large cliffhanger. Friese and bo Odar had publicly spoken astir plans for Seasons 2 and 3.

Lynggaard Tønnesen besides tweeted an aboriginal selfie with his castmates, saying the formed were "all genuinely devastated" by the determination not to determination guardant with the 2nd and 3rd seasons.

Mashable has reached retired to Netflix for comment, arsenic the streaming work has not yet released an authoritative connection connected the non-renewal. It's not wide precisely wherefore the bid has been cancelled, though it's particularly funny considering the overwhelming popularity of the amusement — Netflix's nationalist ranking strategy saw 1899 sitting successful its apical 10 TV shows for a period pursuing its motorboat successful Nov. 2022 (two episodes premiered astatine the Toronto International Film Festival successful September). In December, Netflix said that 1899 had clocked up a whopping 87.9 cardinal hours viewed.

1899's cancellation mightiness person thing to bash with costs (just instrumentality a peek astatine Netflix's behind-the-scenes peculiar Making 1899(opens successful a caller tab) for a look astatine each that tech, including groundbreaking LED sets). The streaming work has been pinching pennies since 2019 erstwhile terms hikes saw subscribers bailing by the bucketload. Netflix presently appears to beryllium backmost connected track, spending $17 cardinal connected content successful 2022.

Fans of the Netflix amusement person already established a petition to prevention it, of course.

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