1899 Collection Cancelled at Netflix After One Season, Creators Verify

1899, Netflix’s bewildering thriller thriller, has been cancelled after one season. In an announcement on Instagram, the present’s co-creators Baran bo Odar and Jantje Freise confirmed that the formidable multilingual sequence was not increasing on its arc, disappointing followers who had been ready and theorising the present’s many unsolved puzzles. Whereas the pair by no means explicitly revealed a motive for the axing, the assertion appears to counsel that Netflix wasn’t on board with their concepts for seasons 2 and three, finally pulling the plug on the venture itself.

“With a heavy coronary heart, we have now to let you know that ‘1899′ won’t be renewed,” the assertion reads. “We’d have liked to complete this unbelievable journey with a second and third season as we did with ‘Darkish.’ However generally issues do not prove the best way you deliberate. That is life.” The creators, who rose to prominence with the German sci-fi sequence Darkish, concluded their say by thanking followers for his or her assist. Considering the overwhelming reputation of the present, it is odd to see Netflix coming to this choice. In its first week of launch — debuted on November 17, 2022 — the present simply cracked the streamer’s Prime 10 charts, garnering 79.27 million hours of watch time, sitting behind The Crown season 5. Within the week after that, 1899 overtook the British monarchy drama for second place, sitting comfortably behind the record-breaking Jenna Ortega-led Wednesday.

As a follow-up — not linked — to Odar and Freise’s Darkish, 1899 centered on a bunch of European emigrants travelling to a brand new continent, hoping to start out new lives, which takes a horrifying flip as they encounter one other migrant ship, the Prometheus, pitting the passengers towards a mysterious sequence of occasions. Talking to The Hollywood Reporter, final 12 months, the creators revealed they’d already had plans for the sequence’ route within the now-cancelled two seasons. “We all the time wish to have an ending earlier than we begin. We wish to know the place we’re going. We’re shifting by a narrative, and we wish to understand how will probably be resolved ultimately,” Freise mentioned within the interview. “Within the center, there could also be some concepts which can be extra loosely thrown in. And as we undergo the method, the concepts can shift and transfer into a special place.”

The eight-episode sequence featured an ensemble forged, talking in 12 totally different languages, as means to symbolize totally different European cultures. 1899 was additionally the primary TV sequence after The Mandalorian to make use of the brand new LED Quantity expertise to create visible units, which mainly relied on big digital screens for the background, as an alternative of a inexperienced/ blue display screen. In an effort to create a continuity impact when switching between cameras between characters, the crew of the Star Wars present would shoot in a single route on day one, then the other on day two. In 1899, nevertheless, the crew merely put the screens on a turntable, which allowed them to spin the set round conveniently.

All eight episodes of 1899 are at present streaming on Netflix. The studio hasn’t disclosed a motive for the cancellation.