He is taking Max/HBO Max, the guillotine out for a walk and the cancellation last Tuesday of ‘Our Flag Means Death’ has been followed by that of another of his little gems: the warm culinary biopic ‘Julia’, whose season 2 was the last.
This way we won’t have season 3 from the wonderful series starring Sarah Lancashire and David Hyde Pierce. Along with them, the cast of the series includes Bebe Neuwirth, Fran Kranz, Fiona Glascott, Brittany Bradford and Robert Joy among many others.
Created by Daniel Goldfarb and with Chris Keyser as showrunner, ‘Julia’ told the life and story of Julia Child, one of the first icons of American cooking shows thanks to his show ‘The French Chef’. Beyond exploring the world of television, the series was interested in exploring (and did so correctly) the evolution of the power dynamics in the protagonists’ marriage.
It is not a platform for long series
The decision to cancel ‘Julia’ comes just a few weeks after the end of the second installment of the series, broadcast between November and December 2023. A cancellation that continues, in a certain way, with a trend to stop producing series that last longer of a couple of seasons. At least as far as Max Originals is concerned.
Likewise, in terms of dramas, only ‘Tokyo Vice’ and ‘Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin’ remain on air, both of which have pending the arrival of seasons 2… and It will still take us a while to see a change in programming since the platform’s next drama series (such as ‘Dune: Prophecy’ and ‘The Penguin’) will still take a few months to arrive.
Comedies, on the other hand, They are enjoying a little more life and this year we have pending the arrival of seasons 3 of ‘Hacks’ and ‘___ Life of College Girls’ this year (and ‘And Just Like That’ in 2025). In addition to the recent renewal for season 2 of Chuck Lorre’s new series, ‘Bookie’.
