Overview
- Industry outlet Deadline reported the cancellation on January 22, and Netflix has not provided a specific public reason.
- Netflix’s viewer report shows 19.8 million views in the first 28 days after the December 4 launch, followed by only 4.8 million additional views over the next 17 days.
- The series briefly placed fourth for two weeks in Netflix’s Top 10 for English-language shows before falling out of the rankings.
- Critics were broadly negative, with a Rotten Tomatoes score around 30 percent and repeated complaints about thin characterization and lack of originality.
- The show, created by Kurt Sutter and starring Lena Headey and Gillian Anderson, was set in the 1850s American West, and Sutter departed late in production citing creative differences.