“Tuca & Bertie” Canceled After One Season By Netflix

 

 

 

In what’s rare company for adult animated series on Netflix nowadays given all of the industry’s success on the largest streaming service in the world, Tuca & Bertie has been canceled after one season. The series was created by Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman) and starred Tiffany Haddish as “Tuca” and Ali Wong as “Bertie”. Production for the show was handled by Shadowmachine. Read our review of the first season here. For fans looking for a slight chance in bringing the series back, a fan-created petition has launched that you can learn more about here.

Our Take

Netflix is a streaming platform that is built on male-focused entertainment and interest in female-focused adult animation is very much in its nascent stages whereas a series like Love Death & Robots feeds the large game console-owning largely male audience that the streaming service covets. That and the promotion on this show was very sloppy saddled with coverage going to newspapers that nobody reads and with a heavy dodging of questions regarding the similarities between this series and the already very successful BoJack Horseman. I would’ve liked to have seen female-focused animation-grow, but with Netflix having a rough quarter in subscriber gains and increasing competition on the way, Netflix is putting its resources in male-dominated content.

FOX and Amazon both have original adult animated series produced by women that will premiere over the next ten months, so we’ll see if we can grow female interest in the industry by then.