Just from watching the trailer, the show has a compelling premise. Was there something off about the execution?

Admittedly, I haven't watched it, so maybe I'm part of the problem if the core issue is "not enough people watched it".

Yikes... I saw this one chart on Nielsen and thought it was good for a renewal. RIP.

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Wait, it was an ongoing series? Never read the book or watched the show, but a quick search on Wikipedia has it listed as a miniseries. Plus the book itself isn't terribly long either, so having it be an ongoing series would likely become repetitive at best unless it was an anthology or something.

every time an article on this pops up i think world of darkness kindred instead.

I feel bad for the lead. They did everything they could to make her look bad with clumsy moments and everything else... A really tough show to watch, honestly, rough and dark.

On one hand I'm disappointed, but it's better for a novel adaptation to go out strong than to be dragged out into nothingness like The Handmaid's Tale or The Man in the High Castle.

It seems like there were all of a sudden like three+ shows/movies about present day black women being teleported back in time to the slave days.

Wow after the cliffhanger 😭

Well it's definitely a miniseries now lol

The article says they only adapted a third of the book. Absolute madness this was not a limited series to begin with. I’ll score it off my watchlist now it has been cancelled without a conclusion.

Same. First thing I thought when I saw the post title was "What? They made a new Kindred series? How did I miss this??" followed by disappointment.

They only managed to adapt a third of the book. That is hardly going out on a high. It would have been better to just make this as a miniseries from the get go!

Trailers made it clear it didn't resemble the book. Instead of making a killer limited series, they decided to add a bunch of original material to milk a short book indefinitely.

Ahh, the same schtick as "The Handmaid's Tale"

I hadn't heard a single thing about this show.i thought I was reading a headline from 30 years ago when Fox cancelled Kindred: The Embraced.

Not surprised, the production felt so cheap.

And American Gods.

I really enjoyed the show. Hadn’t read the books though. They ended with a big cliff hanger too so bummed to not see this series renewed :(

A book where 95% of the story took place in a period setting, added a bunch of modern day material. Wonder why.

Same here, for a moment I thought maybe I didn't hear about the reboot or something.

Some additions to American Gods worked well but were quickly abandoned. Easter was supposed to be a big character but Chenoweth left after the first season.

Sorry to say i learn about most shows thru cancellation

theres simply too many shows on too many services. then they just dump an entire season with no promo and expect ppl to find it

and these networks still making more services- shame.

My wife loved the book. She couldn't stand that show. It seems it's another situation that they alienated the original medium audience while doing nothing in particular to gain a new audience.

I feel bad. I started it and it just hits real hard. Like a horror movie. And then trying to psych myself up to watch another one. It's a really really well executed show.

so disney in cost cutting ! expecting them to cut more stuff with financial reports coming on 8th ! they should share the small nd underperformed d+ stuff with linear networks like national treasure series , willow etc.

I had a feeling it was going to end like this :/ I really liked the show and honestly wanted to know how the deviations would ripple through the rest of the narrative.

They blew a ton of money on the set and location and a ton of things went wrong. Sadly not surprised at the outcome

Figured this thing was doomed when the season ended so abruptly.

That last episode felt weird, like it was unfinished somehow.

I liked the show tbh. Fo me the final episode just seemed clearly unfinished, to the point that I Just assumed episodes were still coming out weekly and realized this wasn't the case.

I really liked the show a lot and binged it in a day. I was hoping it would come back because I found the premise very interesting and the main characters really compelling.

I guess if we want to know what happens we can just read some Octavia Butler

bloodbath

Never one…

What do all stories have in common, dear wolf?

I was very excited to hear about this adaptation coming, but I was turned off when I learned it wouldn't be a limited series (one season) and wouldn't cover the whole book in one go. It's not a long book, one full season would have been great. I heard they did, what, not even 50% of it? Disappointing.

definitely read the book. It's great

It really was a difficult show to watch. Interesting stories and characters, but I really had to force myself to finish out the series, it felt like a depressing slog. Obviously the subject matter is not meant to be light and cheery, but it's not great when you're dreading each new episode...

There actually is a reboot in the works that they announced a while ago

Running Vampire: The Masquerade warped my mind so hard that every time I hear or read "kindred" the first thing that always comes to my mind are vampires.

Aw jeez. It looked like a perfect limited series. God, what the fuck would Fleishman in trouble would have looked like if it was stretched out to two seasons?

No!!!! I need to know what happens next!

I’m very surprised since IMDb has this listed as a mini series.

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The creators or whoever made this show hard to watch. And the lead character got on my last nerves.

I kept waiting for it to get better and it didn't.

Your only option is reading the books it's based on.

> Critically, the World of Darkness titles have built their audience through embracing a wide gamut of representation of race, gender, creed and sexuality. > > “The World of Darkness story universe is deliberately and unapologetically inclusive and diverse,” Boylan said in a statement. “It has always made a point of including equal gendered characters, protagonists and antagonists of every race, and representation of all creeds — bringing a female and diverse audience to gaming like nothing prior. Its games and fandom are a place where women, POC, and the LGBTQI community feel welcome and we are very proud to bring these stories to life.”

It is never a good sign when they start off with this when promoting upcoming works.

Fan of the book but living in Europe so waiting until it is available here before watching.

So I am actually surprised that it wasn't a mini series. It's not too long of a book. If they could get all of The Handmaid's Tale (314 pages) into a 10 episode run, it feels like you could hit most of Kindred (287 pages) into an 8 episode run.

Season 1 of The Handmaid's Tale is pretty much the first book. They cut out the mother character and things like Gilead having tourists but most of the story is intact.

Most of the extra stuff is when they ran out of source material.

It doesn't help that there were some awful movies recently that seemed to borrow heavily from the book like Antebellum and I seem to recall another but can't think of the name.

I wonder what's going to happen to American Horror Stories it's the remaining Hulu show that is pending on renewal/cancel decision. Though it looks likely to be a cancellation.

EDIT: I forgot about Reasonable Doubt which is also pending a decision.

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I actually liked the show more than the book. It explored the why more than the how of her experience and adding her mom was an interesting story line. I was hoping for another season.

Tbh, I remember when watching outlander I was wishing we could see modern stuff with Frank(her husband). The whole time travel aspect is a huge interest to a lot of people.

What does this have to do with Netflix?

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At least they finished covering the book in the first season D:

It should've only been one season in the first place. I'm tired of Networks dragging out adaptations for money only to butcher them so extensively they end up canceled anyways. Like, the book is less than 300 pages! How tf do you figure you can make 2+ seasons out of that??

AND then read everything else she wrote. A personal favorite of mine. Everyone should have been reading her work.

It had no business being planned with a multiple season arc

I don’t have Hulu. I saw the ad for the show and immediately got the book. Loved it. Such a great concept and wonderful story.

They end.

Edit: Re-submission of my idea for the next League of Legends based TV project just to be a Tales from The Crypt style story-time show with Lamb and Wolf as narrators showing random people who live in Runeterra with random champions showing up.

At the very least I genuinely thought it would be some show about vampires when I clicked on it.

Shit. I hate when shows get canceled on cliffhangers.

I enjoyed it anyway.

Some stories are best served with a book. This is a hard show to watch.

as a black person, i couldn't read the book and couldn't watch this show. getting transported back to a plantation sounds so horrifying to me.

I read the second parable book and although I recognize she's an amazing author, I just don't know if I have it in me emotionally to put myself through her stories.

PREACH!

This type of stuff is better suited to guilty wypipo imo. They can feel good because they aren't slavemasters and their lives aren't as shitty as the child laborers in the Congo mining their cobalt for iPhones/Teslas/etc. - I mean, not as shitty as the slaves who ONLY existed hundreds of years ago.

I don't know if I agree with all of that. There are plenty of black people, mostly black people that I come in contact with actually, that love that book. Some of us just can't deal with these stories, though.

With Disney looking to enact a bit of cost cutting and Paramount and WBD both pulling dead content to save cash I’d not be surprised if Disney follow their lead and Kindred never makes it to Europe. It is a dead show without a conclusion. Airing it is pretty pointless at this stage.

Just finished binge watching. I wish the series at least got a second season.

I always wanted to be clan,Venture.

Season 2 would see a name change to "Fleishman is in BIG Trouble!"

I worked on this show. It was a complete cluster fuck.

The series has a lot of differences with the book that dragged it out. I read the book after watching the season finale. It's a fast read.

That probably doesn't help. I did finish the series. I plan to read the book. The show seemed unwilling or unable to address the major themes of the book.

thank god. this show was terrible

Noooo! I really liked this show. Dana was insufferable for a big portion of it, but I was curious about where it would lead. Ugh.

Hahaha, how long did you last??

I came in half way through the shoot with a crew that replaced the previous crew, and stayed until the end. In the couple months I was there, we went through 2 directors, 2 DPs and had a 10 day hiatus due to one of the directors being unceremoniously canned. I think the show burned through 3 directors total.

I actually enjoyed the show for what it was worth. The subject matter was interesting, albeit some of the story telling was a little heavy handed.

I’m bummed to see it got canceled…but not in the least bit surprised.

Oh no. I guess I am not the norm, I liked it.