Proving Zeus Correct, Netflix Cancels Kaos After One Season

Variety confirms Netflix has canceled Kaos, its caller bid astir the Greek Pantheon’s fledgling power successful the 21st period starring Jeff Goldblum arsenic an progressively paranoid Zeus, aft conscionable 1 season—and alternatively soon aft its August 29 debut.

News of the cancelation primitively broke by mode of a since-deleted Instagram station (quoted successful the trade) from Goldblum’s co-star, Aurora Perrineau, successful which the histrion wrote: “Well… this 1 hurt. I find explaining however I’m feeling to beryllium truly difficult, but I’ll try. When I started auditioning for this show, I knew it was special, chiefly owed to the information that Charlie Covell’s scripts resonated with maine successful a mode astir things hadn’t. I knew al these radical and I loved them all—every flaw, everything. For 1 of the archetypal times successful my life, I person recovered myself truly proud. I’m, of course, arrogant of everyone’s enactment and the attraction they gave to this project, because, fto maine archer you, they near everything connected the floor.”

“But I’ve besides recovered myself arrogant of me, and that is thing I’ve struggled with. When I got cast, I couldn’t judge that idiosyncratic SAW me. A miss who’s not lone a number but besides a subsister of SA—and you’re telling maine that idiosyncratic thinks I could beryllium 1 of the leads of a show, person agency, my ain mission, and beryllium desirable capable to beryllium the emotion involvement to not lone 1 astonishing quality but two? I was worthy of that? Everything that happened from that constituent guardant truly changed my perspective. Everyone was superb and uniquely themselves. Every show amazed and excited me. I can’t judge I got to bash this with each of you. We made thing weird, dark, hilarious, deranged and perfectly tragic—something wholly human. This is simply a feeling I program to instrumentality with me. Thanks for letting maine beryllium your Riddy. I had the clip of my life.”

Kaos‘s destiny is the latest successful a drawstring of caller cancelations astatine Netflix including That ’90s Show, Dead Boy Detectives, Uncoupled, The Brothers Sun, Ratched, and Obliterated. The crushed for this decision, according to a caller study from What’s On Netflix, is that the numbers conscionable weren’t there: successful its archetypal 4 weeks, the bid garnered conscionable 14.90 cardinal views, oregon arsenic the web prefers to operation it, “98.90 cardinal hours watched.” In its 4th week connected the air, Netflix re-listed the bid from KAOS: Season One to KAOS N/A, suggesting it had since been demoted to a constricted series. Today, we tin corroborate this is true.

While this much adult-oriented bid aimed for an wholly antithetic tone, it’s absorbing to enactment Kaos‘s ratings were little than the Greek mythology-themed Percy Jackson and the Olympians connected Disney+, but inactive greater than Fox’s Krapopolis which, though lone successful its 2nd twelvemonth connected the air, was precocious renewed for a fourth play astatine the network. Perhaps their oracles saw thing successful the animated sitcom’s aboriginal that Netflix’s practitioners failed to read.

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