This all started when Netflix put out this statement about One Day At A Time:
We’ve made the very difficult decision not to renew One Day At A Time for a fourth season. The choice did not come easily — we spent several weeks trying to find a way to make another season work but in the end simply not enough people watched to justify another season.
— Netflix US (@netflix) March 14, 2019
Which, as Ester Zuckerman points out, is wild.
This is a crazy stance to take when you…don’t release viewing numbers https://t.co/jk7VISxqYt
— Esther Zuckerman (@ezwrites) March 14, 2019
Netflix doesn’t let us know its viewership numbers, and I know that I personally watched the show from my own Netflix and my roommate’s, and everyone I know watched it multiple times, so …
But they made things much worse when they tried to smooth it over:
Seriously, just fuck right off, go spend another $125 mill on a goddamn Max Landis movie https://t.co/J3AC4ANgax
— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) March 14, 2019
Mike Royce, one of the show’s writer and producers, put out his own statement about the cancelation as well.
— Mike Royce (@MikeRoyce) March 14, 2019
From there is when everyone made it clear that we were upset by the news.
This is really sad for literally everyone. https://t.co/nSRiCV404W
— Kelly Lawler (@klawls) March 14, 2019
I am heartbroken. The Latinx community NEEDS this show, and irregardless of that ITS A GREAT, FUNNY, & HEART FELT SHOW WITH FANTASTIC PERFORMACES! SOMEONE SAVE IT! And yeah, I meant the irregardless #SaveODAAT https://t.co/HWoNSBv4dD
— Melissa Fumero (@melissafumero) March 14, 2019
And yes, we’re all upset, but this is truly bullshit. Netflix sits and says they want to be inclusive, they want to share the voices of those left out of mainstream media, and then they cancel One Day At A Time? Something isn’t connecting.
Because … we remember that Netflix spent an absurd amount of money to stream Friends.
netflix paid $100 million to stream Friends for one year. https://t.co/KFoO8CnKET
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) March 14, 2019
this is why it’s disingenuous for Netflix to use a ~relatable millennial persona~ on twitter. they’re simultaneously cancelling One Day At A Time while trying to praise its cultural impact with marginalized audiences.
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) March 14, 2019
When you truly break down the “lack of success” of One Day At A Time, it all falls on Netflix. They didn’t promote the show; the fans did. We fought for it; we all talked about it with the cast and the crew because we all wanted it succeed. It seems as if Netflix always wanted it to fail or just didn’t care.
And doing so while the cast & crew of said show they “admire” had to use Twitter to basically beg them to keep them on the air.
— Kayleigh Donaldson (@Ceilidhann) March 14, 2019
Especially when Netflix isn’t listening to our actual complaints and is funding work by a man whose alleged sexual assault clearly isn’t stopping them from working with him.
Seriously, just fuck right off, go spend another $125 mill on a goddamn Max Landis movie https://t.co/J3AC4ANgax
— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) March 14, 2019
It feels like Netflix is trying to say the right thing and not actually do the right thing. You can say what you want and preach about being inclusive, but when you cancel a show that we all cherished with no real proof of its “lack of viewership”—and no visible effort to change that—then we can’t trust you and your message.
Let’s just hope that Lin-Manuel Miranda saves the show like he did with Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Hey @nbc…I hear you like comedies with built-in fan bases that do even better on YOUR network than at their previous homes…#saveODAAT https://t.co/5bIQYexpDz
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 14, 2019
Not over by a long shot. #saveODAAT https://t.co/dl8sqyNnT1
— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) March 14, 2019
If someone doesn’t save One Day At A Time, I swear I’ll start my own network out of my apartment and film it. This show is necessary and important, but I guess go ahead and keep making The Ranch, Netflix.
(image: Netflix)
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