CANCELLED
What do you do when your favorite series is neutralized?
by Tracie Reddick
Don’t you hate it when a streaming service adds a new series to its line-up and you begin watching it, not realizing there’s no resolution to the storyline.
Me, too.
I was totally engrossed in Hulu’s The Other Black Girl, a mini-series based on a novel by Zakiya Harris.
Directed by Rashida Jones, the series revolves around Nella (Sinclair Daniel), the lone black woman working at a predominately white publishing company that’s literally hiding a dark secret.
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It’s in the form of Hazel (Ashleigh Murray), a newly hired sistah on a mission to sabotage Nella’s upward mobility.
Then BOOM goes the dynamite - the show ended with a banging cliffhanger that still has me wondering if Hazel completed her task.
Yeah, I know. Shows get cancelled all the time, but why is always the ones on my watchlist! Like:
- Black Summer — A post-apocalyptic zombie thriller directed by John Hyams that was lauded for its intense action yet stopped airing new episodes after its second season.
- V Wars — Brad Turner directed this show about a scientist who returns from an Artic expedition, spreading a virus that turned folks into vampires and was praised for its political and social commentary.
- Kingdom — Directed by Kim Seong-hun, this South Korean zombie flick is about a Prince battling traitors within his inner-circle and invading flesh-eaters scaling his palace walls.
All three of the above mentioned shows debuted in 2019 and are currently streaming on Netflix.
They are examples of cancelled series that haunted me after their demise.
Are there any shows that made you wonder if the characters lived happily ever after once they vanished into the airways ether?
