Netflix fans fume over ‘good shows being cancelled’ after outrageous murder-mystery is axed

Netflix viewers are in mourning after the streamer cancelled one of its ‘best shows’, The Residence, in a shock move.

The eight-episode murder-mystery series starred Orange is the New Black actor Uzo Aduba as Detective Cordelia Cupp who must get to the bottom of a murder at the White House.

After coming out in March, fans have had nothing but praise for the quirky show with an eccentric cast of characters, including pop icon Kylie Minogue herself as well as Breaking Bad’s Giancarlo Esposito, Always Be My Maybe’s Randall Park.

In fact, people were rooting for multiple seasons of the show with our bird-obsessed detective solving a new mystery every time, Knives Out style anthology series.

With an 85% Rotten Tomatoes score and a tidy 6.4 million views in the first four days alone – there’s no denying there was appetite for more.

Unfortunately, the Shonda Rhimes show won’t be making a grand return to screens with Netflix axing it.

The show was undeniably an expensive endeavour for the streamer featuring the biggest ever recreation of the White House built on seven stages and featured 10 miles of moulding, 200 working doors and 144,000 pounds of flooring.

Per Deadline, sources say that there had been discussion to reduce the budget for a second season, which ultimately didn’t work out.

Over on Reddit, fans were complaining about the decision.

‘That’s a bummer! I really enjoyed her character. I liked the backstory flashbacks a lot too. I thought there was a lot to work with in further building her character,’ user runamokamok said.

‘I liked this show a lot more than I would’ve thought. Sucks its been canceled but at least we had a complete series with an ending,’ SilverRoseBlade wrote.

‘Why does Netflix only cancel quality shows like this?? That was genuinely so fun and thrilling,’ kjsah9026 shared.

‘This is on brand for Netflix. Cancelling shows that are actually good and renewing shows that suck,’ explanationhead3753 reflected.

‘Awww man. This was such a lovely, cozy show. I really wanted more,’ vmetdear posted.

HollasforDollas asked Netflix to ‘get their priorities in order’ while eightyfish called it a ‘pity’ and shidog agreed ‘Netflix missed it on this one’.

On X, the sentiment was similar.

‘The Residence is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched and did what it needed to do that one season. I don’t think they could have topped this going forward, anyway. I’m not mad,’ blurrypinks declared.

‘I’m so salty about The Residence getting cancelled,’ ingirksnob agreed.

‘Shondaland better find a way to save The Residence I need the murder mysteryaissance to continue!!!’ Pomgrenatecity echoed.

One minuscule consolation is that at least the plot of season one is contained with a satisfying resolution, which means fans won’t have to deal with a devastating cliffhanger that never gets answered.

Alongside The Residence, another fresh show on the platform, Pulse, about a group of ER doctors navigating crisis after crisis at a Miami hospital, has also been cut.

Meanwhile, Netflix thriller No Good Deed, which came out in December starring Lisa Kudrow and Ray Romano, has been paused indefinitely.

Netflix has a track record for prematurely cancelling TV shows and evoking uproar among fans.

In 2023, co-CEO Ted Sarandos told Bloomberg the metric by which they measure whether a show gets that all-important greenlight.

‘We have never cancelled a successful show. A lot of these shows were well-intended but talk to a very small audience on a very big budget.

‘The key to it is you have to be able to talk to a small audience on a small budget and a large audience at a large budget. If you do that well, you can do that forever,’ he said.

This year alone has seen the unceremonious end of Noah Centineo’s The Recruit, period drama The Empress and Greek mythology series Kaos.

This is alongside a slew of major shows coming to an end, including Squid Game, The Sandman, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Big Mouth, Cobra Kai and Outer Banks.

The Residence season one is available to stream on Netflix.

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