Netflix
Netflix did some major house cleaning in 2017, cutting expensive shows like “Sense8” and “The Get Down.”
It also killed flops like “Girlboss” and “Gypsy” after only one season, and old favorites like “House of Cards,” which will end after its sixth season.
And Netflix isn’t holding back in 2018 either.
Netflix’s most recent cancellations include “The Break with Michelle Wolf” and “The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale.” A source connected to “The Break” told The Daily Beast that Netflix’s cancellation of the show was “classless.”
Other shows that Netflix has dropped in 2018 include “Lady Dynamite,” “Disjointed,” “Seven Seconds,” and “Everything Sucks.”
Here are the 21 shows Netflix has killed in total, along with their critic and audience ratings from Metacritic.
“The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “Joel McHale is back with six new bingeworthy episodes full of more outrageous TV clips, original sketches, celebrity guests and comedic mayhem.“
Critic rating: N/A
Audience rating: 7.2/10
Date canceled: August 2018
“The Break with Michelle Wolf”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “Nobody’s safe as Michelle Wolf unapologetically takes aim in this weekly topical show that blends sketches with live comedy and in-studio guests.”
Critic rating: N/A
Audience rating: 2.5/10
Date canceled: August 2018
“Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”: Canceled after four seasons
*Season four of “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” premiered in May 2018, and there are talks that a follow-up movie is in the works.*
Netflix description: “Imprisoned by a cult leader as a teenager, Midwesterner Kimmy is freed after 15 years. The first thing she decides to do is move to New York.”
Critic rating: 79/100
Audience rating: 7.4/10
“Seven Seconds”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “The death of a 15-year-old African American boy in Jersey City sets off a police cover-up and a search for the truth.”
Critic rating: 68/100
Audience rating: 7.1/10
Date canceled: April 2018
“Everything Sucks!”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “It’s 1996 in a town called Boring, where high school misfits in the AV and drama clubs brave the ups and downs of teenage life in the VHS era.”
Critic rating: 62/100
Audience rating: 7.3/10
Date canceled: April 2018
“Disjointed”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “Pot activist Ruth Whitefeather Feldman runs a medical marijuana dispensary while encouraging her loyal patients to chill out and enjoy the high life.”
Critic rating: 43/100
Audience rating: 7.4/10
Date canceled: February 2018
“Lady Dynamite”: Canceled after two seasons
Netflix description: “Comedian Maria Bamford navigates awkward dates, bizarre gigs and the fallout from a major breakdown in a funny and poignant series based on her life.”
Critic rating: 85/100
Audience rating: 6.6/10
Date canceled: January 2018
“Love:” Canceled after three seasons
Netflix description: “A couple must navigate the exhilarations and humiliations of intimacy, commitment and other things they were hoping to avoid.”
Critic rating: 76/100
Audience rating: 7.5/10
Date canceled: December 2017 (the final season will be released in 2018)
“Haters Back Off”: Canceled after two seasons
Netflix description: “The odd ball family life of Miranda Sings, an incredibly confident, totally untalented star on the rise who continues to fail upward by the power of her belief that she was born famous, it’s just no one knows it yet.“
Critic rating: 54/100
Audience rating: 7.1/10
Date canceled: December 2017
“House of Cards”: Concluding after six seasons
Netflix description: “A Congressman works with his equally conniving wife to exact revenge on the people who betrayed him.“
Critic rating: 73.6/100
Audience rating: 7.8/10
Date canceled: October 2017 (the final season will be released in 2018)
“Chelsea”: Canceled after two seasons
Netflix description: “Comedian Chelsea Handler travels the world, tackles outrageous challenges and chats with A-list guests in this irreverent and wholly original talk show.”
Critic rating: 50/100
Audience rating: 5.2/10
Date canceled: October 2017
“Gypsy”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “A therapist forms troubling relationships with people connected to her patients.“
Critic rating: 45/100
Audience rating: 7.5/10
Date canceled: August 2017
“Sense8”: Canceled after two seasons
Netflix description: “From the creators of ‘The Matrix’ and ‘Babylon 5’ comes this tense series in which eight people can telepathically experience each other’s lives.”
Critic rating: 68.5/100
Audience rating: 8.2/10
Date canceled: June 2017 (a two-hour series finale will be released in 2018)
“Girlboss”: Canceled after one season
Netflix description: “Sophia was a broke anarchist selling vintage clothes online but before she knew it, she became the boss of a fashion empire in this comedy series based on Sophia Amoruso’s memoir.”
Critic rating: 53/100
Audience rating: 5.5/10
“The Get Down”: Canceled after one season (two parts)
Netflix description: “In 1977 New York City, the talented and soulful youth of the South Bronx chase dreams and breakneck beats to transform music history.”
Critic rating: 69/100
Audience rating: 7.8/10
“Marco Polo”: Canceled after two seasons
Netflix description: “An empire divided. A family torn apart by civil war. A legend who disrupts the balance of power.”
Critic rating: 54/100
Audience rating: 8/10
Date canceled: December 2016
“Longmire”: Canceled after six seasons (three on Netflix)
Netflix description: “This contemporary crime thriller focuses on a Wyoming sheriff who’s rebuilding his life and career following the death of his wife.”
Critic rating: 75/100
Audience rating: 9.2/10
Date canceled: November 2016 (the final season was released in 2017)
“Bloodline” concluded after three seasons
Netflix description: “The Rayburns seem to have the perfect life in their lovely Florida town. But nobody’s perfect — especially the Rayburns.”
Critic rating: 67.5/100
Audience rating: 8.1/10
Date canceled: September 2016 (the final season was released in 2017)
“Lilyhammer”: Canceled after three seasons
Netflix description: “They killed his dog. They made him run. Now he’s living a new life in a strange land … like a boss.”
Critic rating: 68/100
Audience rating: 7.6/10
“Hemlock Grove”: Canceled after three seasons
Netflix description: “A quaint town links a mangled corpse to a dark outsider with a carnivorous secret. But monsters come in many forms.”
Critic rating: 37/100
Audience rating: 6.7/10
Date canceled: September 2014 (the final season was released in 2015)
“The Killing” concluded after four seasons (one on Netflix)
Netflix description: “Seattle homicide detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder are deeply affected by the murders they investigate in this dark acclaimed crime series.”
Critic rating: 69/100
Audience rating: 8.2/10
Date canceled: November 2013 (Netflix announced it would pick up the show, originally on AMC, for a fourth and final season which was released in 2014)
