In recent years, Netflix has gained a controversial reputation for canceling numerous beloved series, despite their significant popularity within the platform’s catalog, leaving fans frustrated and in many cases, without closure.
Despite the critical and audience success of many of these productions, the platform has cut over 200 shows since 2015. In 2024, popular series such as Shadow & Bone, The Brothers Sun and Dead Boy Detectives were canceled.
This has sparked a wave of outrage on social media, leading to the viral hashtag #NetflixCancels. Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos has defended the strategy, stating that they have never canceled a “successful show“.
20 beloved series that were canceled by Netflix
Several titles suffered at the hands of the strict Netflix team, and some were actually a success, even reaching the No. 1 series spot worldwide and in multiple countries. The hashtag has caused a major stir among users.
Netflix’s official account on X responded to a follower’s comment, where the user mentioned that popular shows were being canceled. They replied, “We don’t like leaving a story unfinished. We learned a lot from Sense8, and we’re going to try not to do this in the future“.
This response enraged fans and users, unleashing a wave of comments where they highlighted the numerous titles that have been canceled in recent years, all starting with Sense8.
Here, check out the 20 gems that have been jailed but not forgotten:
- Fate: The Winx Saga
The coming-of-age journey of five fairies attending Alfea, a magical boarding school in the Otherworld where they must learn to master their powers while navigating love, rivalries, and the monsters that threaten their very existence.
- Anne with an E
A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood spent in orphanages and the homes of strangers, is mistakenly sent to live with an elderly woman and her aging brother.
Over time, 13-year-old Anne will transform their lives and eventually the small town in which they live with her unique spirit, fierce intellect and brilliant imagination.
- The OA
Prairie Johnson, blind as a child, comes home to the community she grew up in with her sight restored. Some hail her a miracle, others a dangerous mystery, but Prairie won’t talk with the FBI or her parents about the seven years she went missing.
- Santa Clarita Diet
They’re ordinary husband and wife realtors until she undergoes a dramatic change that sends them down a road of death and destruction. In a good way.
- The Society
When everyone else mysteriously vanishes from their wealthy town, the teen residents of West Ham must forge their own society to survive.
- Shadow & Bone
In a world cleaved in two by a massive barrier of perpetual darkness, a young soldier uncovers a power that might finally unite her country. But as she struggles to hone her power, dangerous forces plot against her. Thugs, thieves, assassins and saints are at war now, and it will take more than magic to survive.
- 1899
Passengers on an immigrant ship traveling to the new continent get caught in a mysterious riddle when they find a second vessel adrift on the open sea.
- Dead Boy Detectives
Two teen ghosts work alongside a clairvoyant to solve mysteries for their supernatural clientele — until a powerful witch complicates their plans.
- Mindhunter
An agent in the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit develops profiling techniques as he pursues notorious serial killers and rapists.
- The Order
Out to avenge his mother’s death, a college student pledges a secret order and lands in a war between werewolves and practitioners of dark magic.
- Chambers
Consumed by the mystery surrounding the donor heart that saved her life, a young patient starts taking on sinister characteristics of the deceased.
- Sense 8
One gunshot, one death, one moment out of time that irrevocably links eight minds in disparate parts of the world, putting them in each other’s lives, each other’s secrets, and in terrible danger. Ordinary people suddenly reborn as “Sensates”.
- GLOW
In 1980s LA, a crew of misfits reinvent themselves as the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling.
- First Kill
Falling in love is tricky for teens Juliette and Calliope: One’s a vampire, the other’s a vampire hunter — and both are ready to make their first kill.
- Lockwood & Co.
A girl with extraordinary psychic abilities joins two gifted teen boys at a small ghost-hunting agency to fight the many deadly spirits haunting London.
- Cursed
In this fresh take on the Arthurian legend, teenager Nimue joins forces with mercenary Arthur on a quest to find Merlin and deliver an ancient sword.
- Warrior Nun
After waking up in a morgue, an orphaned teen discovers she now possesses superpowers as the chosen Halo-Bearer for a secret sect of demon-hunting nuns.
- Archive 81
An archivist takes a job restoring damaged videotapes and gets pulled into the vortex of a mystery involving the missing director and a demonic cult.
- Julie and the Phantoms
Teenage Julie finds her passion for music and life while helping the Phantoms — a trio of ghostly guys — become the band they were never able to be.
- The Midnight Club
At a manor with a mysterious history, the 8 members of the Midnight Club meet each night at midnight to tell sinister stories – and to look for signs of the supernatural from the beyond
