The Vince Staples Show and The Abandons are more at Netflix.
As Variety reported, the comedy series starring the rapper/actor has been canceled alongside the freshman drama.
The two-season show had Staples play a version of himself living in Long Beach. The series featured surrealist moments with performances by cast members Vanessa Bell Calloway, Beau Billingslea, Naté Jones and Andrea Ellsworth. No reason for the cancellation seems to have been made by Netflix, but Variety quotes Aramide Tinubu, who reviewed the series for the outlet, who said that while the series had hilarious moments, it suffered from an “uneven cadence and aimlessness throughout.”
What series star Vanessa Bell Calloway has said about ‘The Vince Staples Show’
In an interview timed to Season 2 for Blavity’s Shadow and Act, Calloway called the project a “dream role,” stating, “I’ve enjoyed that because I love doing drama, but I also have a real, you know, comedic sense, and a lot of people don’t know that about me, so they’re learning that about me because I’ve done other comedic things, but this has been a dream role to do the mixture of dramedy.”
Netflix also canceled ‘The Abandons’
Meanwhile, The Abandons, which starred Gillian Anderson and Lena Headey, followed two women who are trying to make their way in the wild West. However, one woman (Headey) is an Irish woman who is a makeshift matriarch of a found family and the other (Anderson) is a wealthy silver mine owner who wants their farm. Lamar Johnson also starred as one of Headey’s found family members, a free, educated Black man named Albert Mason. According to Variety, creative differences, including executive producer Kurt Sutter leaving the project, seem to have led to its cancellation.
Johnson told Blavity’s Shadow and Act in an interview about the show, “We don’t really get to see a lot of stories, especially in this time period, about these Black characters that existed. That was a really big part of why I took the show, and, creatively, I think there’s so much more to explore about Albert or sort of who he is, his backstory, his relationship to his family, the relationship he has with other characters in the family. It’s just very rich, and there’s so much to explore.”