Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT When Netflix suddenly canceled its original series Everything Sucks! in 2018, it left many wondering why the coming-of-age dramedy was unceremoniously canned. Developed for the screen by Ben York Jones and Michael Mohan, Everythings Sucks follows the students at a fictional high school in Boring, Oregon who try to produce a movie while dealing with the usual trials and tribulations of being a teen in the 1990s.
The series was met with decently positive praise from the critical establishment, and it earned high marks with audience members on the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes. Though now it is mostly remembered as a mere stepping stone for actor Sydney Sweeney before she landed a larger role on HBO's dark teen drama Euphoria, Everything Sucks! still ranks highly among the best teen shows on Netflix.
The cancelation caused outrage with the small but vocal minority of Netflix subscribers who actually watched the series all the way through, and Netflix VP of original content Cindy Holland specifically addressed them in her statement to Business Insider. Holland said in a statement "because we were seeing a much lower completion rate of the whole season, we realized that it is very unlikely that we would... have a large enough audience to justify a season two".
Everything Sucks! Crew & Fans "Disheartened" By Cancelation While the streamer has taken strides to improve the LGBTQ+ shows available on Netflix, the cancelation of Everything Sucks! was a big blow to the community and was felt especially by those who worked on the program. In a piece from The Hollywood Reporter, executive producer Jeff Pinker reflected on the show's audience when he said "it found an audience of very passionate fans...
As mentioned previously, many fans of the series were unhappy with its sudden cancelation and took to the internet to vent their frustrations. Several Change.org petitions were created to urge Netflix to continue the series, some of which garnered thousands of online signatures. However, those avenues seemingly had no effect, and the show is still quite dead.
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