It can feel almost like a bereavement when your favourite show gets cancelled – and with the way Netflix has been swinging the axe lately, fans are barely through the various stages of grief before another favourite is brutally offed and we have to start all over again.
The latest victim is 1899, the ambitious, multi-language mystery box from the creators of the hit German show, Dark. “With a heavy heart we have to tell you that 1899 will not be renewed,” the showrunner Baran bo Odar announced via Instagram on Tuesday (3 January). “We would have loved to finish this incredible journey with a second and third season, as we did with Dark. But sometimes things don’t turn out the way you planned. That’s life.” The key word here is “finish” – the cancellation of 1899 is particularly painful because the show had been written around a three-season arc. The emphasis was on the mystery; there were hints at a bigger, weirder truth yet to be unveiled. The show was building to something, and taking its time doing so. A wild cliffhanger at the close of the season implied that things were just getting going. Now, that story is left dangling loose.
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