Why Hulu canceled how to die alone after one season

Airports always have possibility; Everywhere you look, people do something new, visit home, or embark on a new chapter. Moments of transport in different entertainment media pack all that uncertainty to their gutters and move the viewer into a new place to consider what has been and what to come. A show like “How To Die Alone” did a double duty in that regard, because the Hulu Natasha Rothwell series showed how much TV has grown in the last half decade, and how far the medium still has to go. The Streamer decided to cancel the series, identifying low viewers, failing to recognize the potential when he was staring right in the surface.

“How to die alone” is Comedy/Drama starring Natasha Rothwell as Mel, an airport worker who has been in an emotional limbo for some time and wakes up to the possibility that her life will be more than clocked in at John F. Kennedy’s airport in New York City, New York. She has friends like Rory, played by a lovely Conrad RicaMora, romantic engagements like her former, Alex (portrayed by Jocko Sims as the main source of her uncertainty), and hopes that there may be more to this world that is not secret. Hulu broadcast all eight episodes of the first and only season last year, and unfortunately made the decision not to pursue any more.

Reported a variety that “how to die on your own” would not have a renewalAnd even the star of the series was held vigilantly by the decision. Rothwell wrote a statement for the announcement which pointed out how he was “shocked, heartbreaking, and frankly, boxed” by the move to leave an unfinished honey journey. In other comments, the actress also highlighted ‘the critical reception of the series, and not just puffed a boot that the show is “a critical, creative and award -winning success”, but an accurate reading of so many people’s response to the series after giving her a chance to Hulu. It’s pretty difficult for a show to do Ensure a score of 91% on rotten tomatoes in this crowded media environmentAnd many programs that run for an even longer reach that culmination mark.

Elsewhere in the diversity reports, a source close to Onyx Collective, the production company that made “How to die alone,” argued that the series did not collect viewers strong enough to guarantee season 2. This is an interesting argument when the data does not exist to creative people or observers outside to see for themselves, and see for themselves, The apparent pressure on the scales for some popular projects under that streaming umbrella, Numbers do not need to apply for those shows or movies. It’s hard not to have a sour taste in your mouth as Rothwell did, after all, the market swims in shows that feel like you’ve watched them before, and “How to Die Alone” was a concept that felt legally fresh.

Onyx Collective was founded by Disney to bring stories by people of color and unrepresented populations to the market, even as the morphs landscape to make that task harder and harder. Honestly, shouldn’t the goal be to produce thoughtful, interesting shows like “How to Die Alone” rather than having to choose their spots so carefully? One thing that observers have seen in the streaming age is that there is some real potential for backend success once a show has existed long enough to collect a larger fan base.

Underpinning this idea, is the fact that the kind of time and space has to be given to those viewers to accumulate on their own, and the studios in the middle of this story rarely spend the kind of advertising dollars on making viewers aware that a show like “how to die alone” even exists. Thus, he begins a feedback loop of self -fulfilling prophecy, with Studios were able to cancel shows because they were not “not collecting large enough viewers,” The companies had no responsibility for pitiful marketing efforts, in fact, and playing protection against their own programming because these services are so much and not all can be pushed.

“How to Die Alone” is currently being shopped for streamers and other studios because that first season exists as a form of test-as-you for what season 2 might be, giving a chance to thrive. Natasha Rothwell is hopeful that the show can continue, and should feel so, because so many fans found “how to die alone” when the decision to remove the ripcord on the series was made. One bright spot exists in the fact that there are so many “lifelong streaming” shows that have found life on a different service or channel than they started life; Hope really seems eternal spring.

Above all, though, I wonder how long the industry can afford to continue to ignore new ideas in favor of trying to find the next big thing and fail because attention among scattered viewers is limited. New shows literally compete with “Stranger Things” to be the “Stranger Things,” next (something like “Paradise” is a Hulu shows stable) To say nothing from the fact that they also face “Fortnite,” the film version of “Minecraft,” and whatever else the unpredictable base of a youth media user could largely find it cool next. There is no shame to be a small show that tells a transferable story to communities that are underdanded; In fact, there is a great deal of freedom, and I dare say, a possibility left for exploration.