I just finished binge-watching season one of Away. It is an excellent show about a crew of NASA astronauts on a mission to land on Mars. It doesn’t just focus on the mission though, it goes into detail about each anstronaut’s personal life and how they ended up on this mission. I enjoyed it very much.

As soon as it was done, I sat down to write this post. So the first thing I did was google “Away” and I found this:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed/away-canceled-after-single-season-on-netflix

It has already been cancelled by Netflix after only one season. It wasn’t even given a chance to grow an audience! I am angry and shocked about this. It just doesn’t make any sense to me. With all of the other garbage series on Netflix (and other networks) that keep going season after season, this is the series they cancel? I just don’t get it. Everything, from the cast and special effects to the story and the deep details, this is a great show. I can’t stress that enough.

With the series already cancelled, it’s like NASA has basically successfully landed a ship and its crew of five on Mars and abandoned them there. Their fate is up in the air and we’ll never know what happened to them. There’s no closure at all. If they had known this all along, they could have made it a “limited series” and provided some type of closure at least. Maybe the ship had a major malfunction upon entering the Mars atmosphere or something, and exploded, killing the entire crew, or something like that… I know, that’s horrible to imagine, but it would at least be closure, and it would actually be more realistic. Or even just add scrolling text at the end, before the credits, explaining the final outcome. SOMETHING to offer a little closure.

But no, it’s just a series, nothing more than a little 10-hour story about a mission to Mars. Now I don’t know if I can trust Netflix series anymore. I’ll have to wait a few seasons, or even until a show completely finishes its first run, just so I know it survived a decent number of seasons to provide some satisfaction in its story.

I wonder if there’s any chance it can be saved. Even all the reviews and comments I’ve read say it’s excellent and everyone hates the fact that it was cancelled. I hope they explain exactly why, eventually. Maybe it was the budget. It did have excellent effects that I imagine must have been pretty costly.

Maybe another network could pick it up and run with it, as long as Netflix apparently doesn’t have any faith in it. Man, this is frustrating.