Netflix has explained the reasons behind the cancellation of Everything Sucks! after just one season.
The comedy-drama series launched in February 2018 but was axed two months later, leading to a lot of fans complaining on social media.
Cindy Holland, Netflix's VP of original content, shed light on the decision by sharing that despite the "passionate audience", one thing that harmed the show's chance of renewal was the fact that the percentage of people who stuck with the season through to the end was disappointing.
"I'm really passionate about the show myself," she said during Netflix's executive session at the TCA press tour (via Deadline). "We take the cancellation decisions as personally as anybody."
She continued: "Because we were seeing a much lower completion rate of the whole season, we realised that it is very unlikely that we would be able to grow the audience, move a whole new audience through the show, and have a large enough audience to justify a season two."
Holland also discussed the #SaveShadowhunters campaign and how Netflix receives '100 emails a day' from fans wanting to save the show.
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At the time of Everything Sucks!'s cancellation, star Sydney Sweeney said: "My heart is broken. I don't even have words to say how much I'm going to miss this story."
Everything Sucks! was created for Netflix by Ben York Jones, who broke through to the mainstream as a writer and co-star of Anton Yelchin, Felicity Jones and Jennifer Lawrence's drama Like Crazy.
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