Bonding, the darkish comedy collection that first premiered on Netflix again in April 2019 won’t be returning for a 3rd season on Netflix.
The mature comedy got here from creator Rightor Doyle who wrote the collection primarily based on his personal expertise of turning into a bodyguard to a dominatrix. The collection starred Zoe Levin, Brendan Scannell, Micah Inventory, and Theo Stockman.
Naturally, with the themes of the present, the primary season struck up controversy from a number of fronts. Most notably, the BDSM group didn’t take kindly to their portrayals within the collection which was set to be addressed in season 2. Nevertheless, controversy appears to solely spur the present alongside and though we don’t have any stats, the collection clearly pulled in sufficient viewership to justify a future season.
Season 2 was introduced in January 2020 earlier than ultimately releasing a yr later in January 2021. It joined with out a lot fanfare this time round. Netflix didn’t promote the present by means of the present’s verified Twitter web page past altering the bio after the discharge. The present’s Instagram page did receive some love earlier than going darkish on February 10th, 2021.
The second season trailer solely managed to get round 250,000 views in comparison with the 1.7 million exhibited on the season 1 trailer. In line with a number of sources, Netflix’s trailer viewership usually then goes onto correlate with the present’s viewership.
Worse but, Netflix’s prime 10 characteristic which was launched in March 2020, didn’t register the present in any respect in the USA. That’s proper, Bonding didn’t characteristic in any respect within the US prime 10 even the day after the discharge which is when exhibits are likely to have their greatest bump in viewership.
Netflix announced to Deadline that it had canceled Bonding in July 2021 alongside quite a lot of different comedy collection though Bonding was the one present that wasn’t household aimed to be canned.
There may be excellent news nevertheless. Rightor Doyle is engaged on future Netflix initiatives as a part of a brand new improvement deal.
Talking personally for a second. The primary season was a real delight. It got here seemingly out of nowhere and was in a format that was bingeable over the course of some hours and wasted no time. At the least for me, the identical couldn’t be mentioned about its second season.
We’ll preserve this submit up to date with response from forged and crew as and once we get it.
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