‘The Peripheral’ Canceled at Amazon Despite Season 2 Renewal
variety.com
“The Peripheral” has been canceled at Amazon’s Prime Video, Variety has learned. The news comes despite the fact that Amazon renewed the show for a second season back in February.…

I’m amazed season two wasn’t already finished before the strike. The last episode aired in 2022. What were they doing all year?

  • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
    22·
    1 year ago

    Seriously, did we watch the same 1899??

    From the third episode it was already making me think “oh, this is going to be one of those shows where literally everything is a mistery and nothing is ever explained”.

    And then, nothing gets explained, and the season ends with the cheapest “GOTYA!!” ever. Like… what?? I’ve spent HOURS watching this and I literally wasted all this time… hmm… of course it was cancelled. It was expensive and didn’t really say anything meaningful.

    “B-but because you need more seasons to understand”, this is not how the business works. We can not trust you will deliver if you failed to do anything meaningful in a whole season.

    • monsoonstorm@lemmy.world
      3·
      1 year ago

      As I said, that’s how Dark worked and Netflix took on 1899 knowing that. They knew it was supposed to be a trilogy, just like Dark. They knew it would be a mystery, just like Dark.

      If they didn’t agree with that then they should have either a) not taken the project on, or b) made it absolutely clear to the writers that there was a high chance it would be cancelled after season 1 and to write it accordingly.

      The expense part is purely on Netflix’s head. They wanted to invest in new technology and used 1899 as their reason/showcase. The writers couldn’t have cared less if it was a green screened boat or some weird 3D set.

      Perhaps things would have been different if they had kept it in German (and in that branch of Netflix) rather than forcing it international, who knows. Let it perform accordingly for their local audience and then any international viewers are a bonus, god knows the majority of the English speaking world has zero interest in subtitles. Different cultures have different expectations from their programmes, and let’s face it, the American one is for the majority one of minimal effort and instant gratification.

      • unknowing8343@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        The crucial aspect of Dark was very straightforward. Time-travel. And everything happens organically from there.

        In 1899, every episode adds a new thing that is completely unrelated to the previous, nothing is consistent, and it turns out nothing is really meaningful at all in the end.

        I could start the show watching season 2 and I would be as clueless as anyone.