Netflix just cancelled two TV shows to start off 2022

Netflix but cancelled two TV shows to start off 2022

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Netflix cancels TV shows all the time (an inevitability, when it makes so many of them) and it's starting off 2022 with a two-pack. And each show has some pretty high-profile names attached to it, so these aren't exactly unknowns. Netflix isn't the only one with the hook, either: Amazon Prime delivered the get-go big canceled prove of 2022 and CBS canceled a prove subsequently 6 seasons.

The first to get the axe and join our big list of canceled TV shows of 2022 is Gentefied, a half-hour comedy drama produced past America Ferrera (Ugly Betty), as NBC News reported on Jan. 14.

Deleted from Netflix's production lineup after its second season came out concluding Nov, Gentefied had a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes, but didn't discover enough of an audience to get a spot in Netflix's (now public) Top 10 ratings.

The show focused on a trio of Mexican American cousins in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, whose story involved borders, familial separation and gentrification. Ferrara appeared in the show, which starred Joaquín Cosío, Carlos Santos and JJ Soria.

(L-R) Carlos Santos as Chris, Karrie Martin as Ana, Joaquín Cosío as Casimiro, JJ Soria as Erik share a hug as a reporter asks for a question in Gentefied Season 2 — (Image credit: Kevin Estrada/Netflix)

Gentefied co-showrunner Linda Yvette Chávez tweeted a lengthy message to the fans of the series post-obit its cancelation, showing her appreciation for how they received messages from the show's "millions" of fans who "saw themselves and their families on screen for the first fourth dimension. Chávez wrote about how the evidence'southward being, giving visibility to families and persons you don't always see on Goggle box was an deed of change "fabricated upwards of small acts of revolutionary dearest."

She also seemingly made a veiled reference to how Netflix values ratings in a higher place all else, stating that "nosotros have to rethink the way in which nosotros value" this kind of "revolutionary fine art." "Metrics and algorithms," she writes, "will never measure the true touch of what nosotros did here."

Netflix's other canceled show is much less revolutionary

(L-R) Paris Hilton and Saweetie sip from glasses on Cooking With Paris — (Image credit: Kit Karzen/Netflix)

And so, on Monday (Jan. 17), Netflix pulled the plug on Paris Hilton's latest Tv project: Cooking with Paris. The series only had 1 season, which debuted on August 4, 2022. Deadline broke the news.

This six-episode series, which saw Hilton share recipes with famous friends including Kim Kardashian West, Saweetie and Demi Lovato, is as much the polar opposite of Gentefied every bit you might expect.

A dud with critics, Cooking with Paris underwhelmed the critics, equally seen by its 25% Rotten Tomatoes score. If you lot were one of the plainly many who didn't lookout the series, its premise was simple: marrying Hilton's opulent lifestyle with a cooking show — then information technology's not just almost what she wore while she cooked, just the diamond-encrusted cooking equipment she used.

Information technology barely made a scratch in the Netflix Top 10, either.

Analysis: Netflix is doing what Netflix does

Netflix has long been known for its ruthlessness when it comes to not renewing TV shows for additional seasons. And while Gentefied is the kind of series many would like to see render, nosotros could encounter a globe where Netflix price hikes became a lot more regular if it continued to renew more and more than shows. Of grade, anyone willing to think nearly canceling Netflix now is going to take to deal with possibly missing the Ozark season four release engagement (one of the 7 new shows to watch this weekend).

While we like Netflix (information technology is 1 of our best streaming service picks), nobody likes to see a show go canceled. And with many new upcoming shows on the horizon — such equally The Cuphead Show — and plenty of one-season shows in the grave (and then long, Cowboy Bebop), Netflix subscribers know 1 thing in a higher place all else: don't go attached.

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Henry is a senior editor at Tom's Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the past six-plus years. Prior to joining Tom'southward Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He's likewise covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.