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Hulu cancels Marvel show Helstrom after one season

By Mae Harrington O'Neill

Helstrom -- "Mother's Little Helpers" -- Episode 101 -- Daimon Helstrom investigates a possessed young boy in Oregon. Meanwhile in San Francisco, Ana Helstrom stages an auction to expose a criminal. Disturbing events at St. Teresa's cause concern as the siblings estranged Mother remains hospitalized. Chris Yen (Alain Uy) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon), shown. (Photo by: Bettina Strauss/Hulu)
Helstrom -- "Mother's Little Helpers" -- Episode 101 -- Daimon Helstrom investigates a possessed young boy in Oregon. Meanwhile in San Francisco, Ana Helstrom stages an auction to expose a criminal. Disturbing events at St. Teresa's cause concern as the siblings estranged Mother remains hospitalized. Chris Yen (Alain Uy) and Ana Helstrom (Sydney Lemmon), shown. (Photo by: Bettina Strauss/Hulu) /
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Hulu’s Helstrom was the last Marvel show not on Disney+ left standing. But like Daredevil and Runaways and everything else, it’s now kaput.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you loved Helstrom on Hulu, you’re out of luck. The show has been canceled after airing for just one season.

Based on the Marvel Comics characters Daimon and Satana Hellstrom, the series premiered on Hulu on October 16, 2020, with the first and only season consisting of 10 episodes. Helstrom starred Tom Austen and Sydney Lemmon as Daimon and Ana Helstrom, the children of a serial killer. Both siblings have impressive powers, which they use to influence the world around them.

Helstrom is the last of several Marvel shows airing somewhere other than Disney+ to be cancelled. It started with Netflix shows like Daredevil and Jessica Jones on Netflix, and worked its way through series like Legion, Cloak & Dagger, The Gifted, Runaways and Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D., although that one had a long natural life before it ended.

The writing was on the wall for these shows the moment Disney really started to ramp up production of Marvel series on Disney+. In the next few years, Disney+ subscribers will get to watch WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Loki, She-Hulk and many more, but if you use another streaming service, it’s going to be slim pickings.

I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again: Agent Carter on ABC is by far the best television show Marvel has ever made. The entire show revolved around Peggy Carter fighting misogynists and going undercover while upbeat jazz music played in the background. You can’t top that! Plus, viewers got to know Edwin Jarvis while also getting insight into Peggy’s relationship with Howard Stark.

Peggy Carter is seriously the most underrated Marvel heroine and I will forever hold out hope that the show will be revived for a third season. But if it is, it probably won’t be on ABC.

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