There is no room for sentimentality in the ruthless world of TV streaming. If only services felt the same about quality control
In December, fans of the Netflix fantasy series Warrior Nun learned that their favourite show had been cancelled after just two seasons. They did not take the news quietly. Billboards appeared in New York and London, sporting the slogan #SaveWarriorNun. Another, in Los Angeles, now faces Netflix HQ. This highly organised fan campaign has raised thousands of dollars in order to fund protests against the show being axed, and a petition calling for Warrior Nun to get a third season now has well over 100,000 signatures.
Warrior Nun has a particularly devoted set of fans who are making a lot of noise about its demise. While their viewers are not so vocal, plenty of other series are facing cancellation, after two seasons if they’re lucky, or one, if they’re not. Some have even ended for good on a cliffhanger, leaving fans of Apple TV+’s Mosquito Coast, for example, with no resolution and no way of finding out what happened next
