Fans Are Sick and Tired of Amazon Killing Its Best Sci-fi Shows
In the last few years, watching your favorite show from beginning to end has become an almost impossible task.
Amazon seems to be challenging Netflix 's dubious primacy in canceling projects that have already been well received by viewers. The sci-fi series The Peripheral, based on William Gibson's best-selling novel of the same name, was renewed for a second season in February 2023, but unfortunately was soon canceled due to the strikes.
Amazon Keeps Canceling Worthy Sci-Fi Projects
In 2022, within a month of each other, Prime Video released two TV shows very similar in spirit, in which something alien invades the provincial lives of the characters – first Outer Range, then Night Sky.
However, in July, Amazon canceled Night Sky starring Sissy Spacek and J. K. Simmons. The company made the decision not to release another chapter about a month after the premiere of all eight episodes of the first season.
Night Sky told the story of Irene and Franklin. According to the plot, they find a portal that can send a person to a mysterious desert planet. However, the quiet life of the couple collapses when other people learn about their space secret.
Outer Range is Canceled After Two Successful Seasons
And now Amazon has decided to cancel the sci-fi series Outer Range with Josh Brolin after two seasons.
The story of Outer Range revolved around a rancher named Royal Abbott who found an object on his ranch that looked like a black hole. After this discovery, all sorts of strange events begin to happen in the life of Royal and his relatives, and an already difficult life becomes even harder.
It is worth noting that the series itself received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, and if the first season was received with restraint, Season 2 receives much more enthusiastic reactions. Nevertheless, another good sci-fi series has been canceled, and Amazon has not commented on the reason.
And this trend is becoming increasingly annoying and disappointing to viewers, which is only fair.
“I knew I shouldn't have started watching this show. I just knew it. From the first look, It seemed like a show that was going to build a mystery and then get cancelled on a cliffhanger without resolution. I'm so sick of this sh*t,” Reddit user Underwater_Karma wrote.
Many viewers even admitted that they only watched Outer Range because Night Sky was canceled, and the series about a mysterious hole in the field became the best replacement for those who fell in love with the J. K. Simmons show.
If this trend continues, viewers' distrust of the platforms will continue to grow, and that could lead to viewership dropping even further – because no one wants to be immersed and emotionally invested in a show that ends mid-sentence.