Old Netflix tweet about cancelling shows has resurfaced and fans are pointing out its irony

Pierra Willix

Published January 19, 2023 6:29pm Updated December 24, 2024 12:39pm

Fans of the shows are still hurting from their cancellations (Picture: Netflix)

An old Netflix Twitter post reassuring audiences that they try to avoid cancelling shows has resurfaced shortly after fan favourites including 1899, The Midnight Club and Warrior Nun were shelved.

In 2017, the streaming service made a post on social media addressing the backlash it received following the cancellation of sci-fi drama Sense8, after the second season ended on a cliffhanger.

The response was so strong that Netflix ended up producing a two-and-a-half-hour series finale that was released the next year.

But before this, in the same month it announced it was pulling the plug on the show, the company claimed: ‘We don’t like leaving a story unfinished.’

‘We learned a lot from Sense and we’re going to try not to do this in the future,’ the official Twitter account wrote.

This week, internet sleuths unearthed the old tweet, and they didn’t waste any time in calling out the fact that Netflix seemed to have not learnt its lesson.

The original tweet from 2017 (Picture: Netflix/Twitter)

The old post has now been flooded with people pointing out its irony (Picture: Twitter)

This person called out the streaming service (Picture: Twitter)

Another singled out Fate: The Winx Saga as another show that had been cut (Picture: Twitter)

Others listed a whole bunch of shows that had met the chopping block (Picture: Twitter)

This person suggested the list of cancellations ‘could go on forever’ (Picture: Twitter)

Many joked the statement hadn’t aged well, while others pointed out several shows that had been cut short.

In the past few months alone, Netflix has called time on progammes including Uncoupled, Warrior Nun, The Midnight Club, Blockbuster, Partner Track, Fate: The Winx Saga, First Kill, Archive 81, The Baby-Sitters Club, The Chair, Resident Evil and Raising Dion.

Its YouTube channel is also regularly flooded with comments from fans of teen drama The Society, asking for a second season, after the series was axed in 2020.

While many shows are facing the chopping block, others are getting the chance to return, with Wednesday recently being renewed for a second season, a new dating show called Perfect Match being announced, as well as a Power Rangers reunion.

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Metro.co.uk has contacted Netflix for comment.

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