Canceled After a Season 2 Renewal: 10 Most Disappointing Netflix Series Cancellations, Ranked by TVLine

Why cancellations felt personal

During Netflix’s rise in the mid-to-late 2010s, fans often treated its programming decisions as unusually unpredictable. The company was not the first to cancel popular shows, but private viewership figures and confusing public announcements made those choices hard to assess.

Online discussion could make a series seem more widely watched than it was, while many shows competed for attention. When cancellations arrived, they could feel personal to viewers, particularly when a season ended on a cliffhanger.

Inside Job’s unresolved turn

Netflix approved a second season roughly seven months before canceling the series. The cancellation came during the winter of 2022–2023, alongside decisions to end “Warrior Nun,” Mike Flanagan’s “The Midnight Club” and “1899.” Netflix did not provide official explanations for those cancellations.

Staff writer Chase Mitchell criticized Netflix’s treatment of animation in deleted tweets, as reported by PopCulture. Takeuchi said the story needed more time. The series ended on a major cliffhanger as its plot was expanding.

A supernatural story cut short

The 2020 series “I Am Not Okay with This” adapts a graphic novel by Charles Forsman, who also wrote “The End of the F***ing World.” Starring Sophia Lillis as Syd Novak, it explores supernatural powers alongside growing up, bullying and sexual identity. The series was renewed, but showrunners Jonathan Entwistle and Christy Hall told Business Insider they were unsure it would survive Netflix’s turbulent period before the pandemic. The cancellation came later in 2020 and was attributed to COVID constraints and other budget and performance concerns.