“The Abandons” and “The Vince Staples Show” have been canceled by Netflix, Variety has confirmed.
The former is a Western from Sons of Anarchy creator Kurt Sutter that will end after one season. The latter, a satirical comedy starring rapper Vince Staples, was canceled after two seasons.
Set in the 1850s, Abandons premiered in December and stars Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson as Irish women who live with a family of four adult orphans they found and a silver mine owner who wants to own his farm. Production on the series faced serious difficulties when showrunner and executive producer Sutter abandoned The Abandons due to creative differences with just a few weeks left in filming.
Alison Herman, Variety’s chief television critic, called the series “bizarrely thin” and “a frustrating, incomplete interpretation of a compelling premise.” In her review, she wrote, “This title represents underserved protagonists in a variety of ways.”
“The Vince Staples Show” first aired in 2024 and has been renewed for a second season. Structured around surrealist episodes, the series starred Staples as a fictional version of himself living in a fictional version of his hometown of Long Beach. The show also starred Andrea Ellsworth, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Beau Billingsley, and Nate Jones.
In his review of the first season, Variety’s chief television critic Aramide Tinubu wrote that while The Vince Staples Show has “some genuinely laugh-out-loud moments,” its “uneven rhythms and aimlessness make for an overall frustrating experience.” She added, “Staples has a lot of great ideas, but it feels mostly unfinished.”
These cancellations come amid recent Netflix renewals that include “The Hunting Wives,” “Nobody Wants This,” “Bridgerton,” “tires,” “Survival of the Thickest,” and more.
Deadline broke the news of the cancellation.
