Recently, Netflix announced that it was canceling its original sci-fi series The OA two seasons into its run. Created by lead actor Brit Marling and writer/director Zal Batmanglij, the series followed Prairie Johnson, a blind woman who returned after being missing for seven years with her sight restored and the super handy ability to jump dimensions. What gives? That’s the question the show will now never quite answer.
Marling talked about the cancellation on her Instagram, and offered up an ode to the cleansing power of science fiction while she was at it:
That’s pretty stirring stuff, and seems like a definite, if bittersweet, goodbye.
But fans of the series, which currently enjoys an 84% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, aren’t having it. They’re started a Change.org petition to have the series renewed, either on Netflix or on another streaming platform. As of this writing, the petition currently sits at nearly sixteen thousand signatures. Nowadays, cancelled shows can often can picked up by other outlets — Netflix itself has picked up shows like Arrested Development and Lucifer after they were cancelled by Fox — so hopefully fans, who seem rather upset based on the petition comments, will get to see Prairie Johnson’s saga come to a proper close.
Netflix has been getting pretty cancel-happy lately. In addition to The OA, it’s also let go of shows like Tuca and Bertie, Keifer Sutherland’s Designated Survivor, The Good Cop, The Rain, Dark and Drew Barrymore’s Santa Clarita Diet. Is this a signal that Netflix’s free-spending ways are a thing of the past? Is it going to get choosier with what it produces? Or had those shows run their course?
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And Netflix isn’t the only network saying goodbye to a beloved sci-fi drama. Variety reports that the CW is closing the curtain on The 100 after its upcoming seventh season. The sixth season finale airs tonight.
Based on the young adult novels by Kass Morgan, The 100 follows a band of juvenile offenders born on an overcrowded space station and dropped onto a post-apocalyptic Earth to see if it’s still habitable. It is, as watching the first six seasons of the show will tell you. Unlike with The OA, at least The 100 will have a chance to wrap up its story on its own terms.
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h/t Newsweek