The streaming platform has pulled the plug on its new show immediately after one season
Hulu has announced that it is not going forward with the American mystery drama television series ‘Death and Other Details.’ It has opted not to renew the series for a second season after the season 1 finale. Though the series was visually appealing. It had a pretty quiet run, and thus, the Mandy Patinkin and Violett Beane starrer couldn’t break into Nielsen’s weekly Top 10 streaming ratings.
Hulu Cancels New Series ‘Death and Other Details” After The Pilot Season
The story unfolds as Mike Weiss and Heid Coel McAdams, two world’s once-greatest detectives, join hands with Beane and Rufus Cotesworth to solve a murder mystery on a luxury ocean liner as they sail through the Mediterranean with a bunch of affluent individuals. As they move forward with their mission, they end up before a powerful enemy, Victor Sams.
Season 1 wrapped after revealing the true identity of the villain as Sams was brought to justice. However, the ending takes the series to a new opening where new lead detectives including Imogene and her team of fellow amateur sleuths, Jules (Hugo Diego Garcia), Teddy (Angela Zhou), Leila (Pardis Saremi) come across a disturbing sight while skiing.
Though the Disney-backed streamer has canceled a new season, the Mandy Patinkin-led drama is expected to remain on the platform. According to the chief TV critic Daniel Feinberg, the series which was previously known as “Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem” was “wildly derivative and periodically entertaining.”
The series executive produced by Weiss and Cole McAdams alongside Mark Webb launched its 10-episode season in January. It has a 66 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a 55% score among critics.
Hulu made a pilot order for the drama in September 2021, and the following March, the streaming platform picked it up into a series. Besides executive producing the show, Mark Webb also directed it. When the series was picked up in 2022, only a few cast members were assigned including Hugo Diego Garcia, Linda Emond, Lauren Patten, Angela Zhou, and Violette Bean. However, in September 2022, Jayne Atkinson, David Marshall Grant, and Linda Emond were added to the cast, and the following November, Christian Svensson joined the cast.
According to the streaming aggregator JustWatch, the 2024 thriller drama was the fifth most-watched television series in the US from January 22 to January 28, 2024. After the first few days, the demand for the series began to diminish, yet Death and Other Details again became the fifth most streamed series in the US during the first week of February 2024.
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According to the viewers, the series has plentiful ideas to explore that would level up the classic whodunit, yet they could not unsee the fatal flaws including the lack of cohesiveness. According to another streaming aggregator, Metacritic, the series received a 60 out of 100 with mixed or average reviews.
Though the fans of Death and Other Details were not expecting the streaming service to thwart an upcoming season, some of them are glad that the platform might give the golden opportunity to some other project that truly deserves the limelight.
The first episode of the ten-episode series was released on January 16, 2024, thereafter Hulu dropped each episode per week. The final episode aired on March 5, 2014, and within a few weeks of airing its finale episode, Hulu canceled the show.