Netflix is making room for all of that incoming Warner Bros. programming. OK, so not really, but the streamer did cancel a pair of series on Wednesday: Kurt Sutter‘s The Abandons and The Vince Staples Show, which hails from — well, you can probably figure that one out.
The Abandons, from Sons of Anarchy creator Sutter, was abandoned after just one season. The western drama set in the 1850s starred Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson. It will be remembered for Sutter’s early exit: he departed as showrunner with just a few weeks of filming left. “Creative differences,” they say. (They always say that.)
The Abandons followed a group of outlier families in 1850s Oregon who come together to fight a corrupt, wealthy power that wants to force them off their land. It also starred Nick Robinson, Diana Silvers, Lamar Johnson, Natalia del Riego, Lucas Till, Aisling Franciosi, Toby Hemingway, Michael Greyeyes, Ryan Hurst, Katelyn Wells, Clayton Cardenas, Elle-Maija Tailfeathers, Brían F. O’Byrne, Marc Menchaca, Patton Oswalt, Michael Ornstein, Jonathan Koensgen, Jack Doolan, Michiel Huisman, Haig Sutherland and Sarah White.
The 2022 series order came about three years after Sutter was fired from FX’s Mayans MC for being, as Sutter put it at the time, an “abrasive dick” on set. Sources told The Hollywood Reporter at the time that there had been multiple complaints about his behavior on the series.
Sources told The Hollywood Reporter at the time that Sutter’s departure from The Abandons came after Netflix saw rough cuts of the series’ first episodes — the premiere came in at nearly feature-film length and was eventually split into two episodes, which necessitated additional scenes. Executive producer and director Otto Bathurst and co-EP Rob Askins saw the rest of the shoot through.
The Vince Staples Show starred rapper/actor Staples as a fictionalized version of himself and was set in an equally fictionalized version of Long Beach, Calif., Staples’ real home city. The show also starred Andrea Ellsworth, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Beau Billingslea and Naté Jones. The Vince Staples Show made it two seasons, though they consisted of just five episodes and six episodes, respectively.
