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Netflix drops series flop after just one season

2021-05-05T23:14:07.379Z


Netflix did not hesitate: a few weeks after the start of a fantasy spectacle, the streaming service canceled the poorly rated series.


Netflix did not hesitate: a few weeks after the start of a fantasy spectacle, the streaming service canceled the poorly rated series.

Fans of the fantasy genre will definitely get their money's worth at Netflix.

Whether "The Witcher" *, "Shadow and Bone" or "Cursed - The Chosen One": The list of series in which magic plays a role is long.

Fantasy lovers might also be looking forward to "The Gang from Baker Street".

At the end of March 2021, the first season of the dark Sherlock Holmes interpretation started.

In this production, the makers dared to experiment to combine crime and supernatural elements.

That doesn't seem to have worked particularly well,

because Netflix ended the series after only one season

.

"The gang from Baker Street": Netflix is ​​canceling the series - but that's not surprising

Deadline

magazine

reported exclusively on the sudden end of the series of "The Gang from Baker Street". However, they do not know the exact reasons for this. So it can only be guessed why the streaming service pulled the rip cord so quickly. A look at the

IMDb

film database

reveals a possible background: the fantasy thriller did not go down well with countless viewers.

The series received an average of

only

5.8 stars out

of a possible 10 stars. For comparison: "Shadow and Bone" has

8.0 stars

, "The Witcher" even a proud

8.2 stars

(as of May 5, 2021).

The situation is similar with

Rotten Tomatoes

.

There, viewers rated “The Gang from Baker Street” with an average score of

55 percent

, while the professional film critics

gave an average of

78 percent

(as of May 5, 2021).

Ultimately, however, a series has to be able to inspire the masses.

The makers don't seem to have succeeded.

+

Netflix canceled the series "The Gang from Baker Street" after just one season.

© Matt Squire / Netflix

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"The gang from Baker Street": Do Netflix users still know how the story ends?

Since Netflix canceled the series "The Gang from Baker Street" after only one season, the plot has no round ending.

The production is only loosely based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which is why the audience does not receive any answers to open questions in the books.

So far it is also unclear whether the makers will tell the story in a different way to the end.

In the case of “The Order”, showrunner Dennis Heaton revealed the originally planned progression of the story on Twitter, for example.

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Also interesting

: Because of the newly announced series: Countless Netflix users cancel their subscriptions.

These Netflix series will continue into 2021

These Netflix series will continue into 2021

List of rubric lists: © Matt Squire / Netflix

Source: merkur

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